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IN AUSTRALIA
WORKING WITH ENEMY, ALIENS)
ALL GERMAN WORKMEN PAD*
OFF. ;
AT BEALE'S PIANO FACTORY
, Sydney, Sunday;
»ince the outbreak of the war the
employees of Beale's piano factory at
Annandale hare resented the presence
of German workmen, and since the
Lusitania outrage the bitterness has
been accentuated. Last week the Bri-
tish section of the employees held *
meeting and decided that the presence
of alien enemy workmen be no longer
tolerated. A deputation was appoint-
ed, and. waited upotr the msaagesnew*
in respect to the matter. Mr. Beale,
jun., and the manager gare the depu-
tation" a patient hearing.
Mr. Beale then expressed himself'as
being in sympathy with the object'and
the result has been that the whole or
the German employees were paid off at
the end of last week.
One of their number has been in the
employ of the firm for % number of
years and is said to be very popular
with his British workmates, who, it ia
stated, while regretting the necessity
of such drastic action so far as he is
concerned/felt that no distinction could
be consistently be made.
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