CHINESE LABOR
AN ARRANGED MEETING AT
JOHANNESBURG.
By telegraph,, Press 'Ass’n, Copyright Itecoived 1 a.m., Feb. 3,
Capetown, Feb. 2. Three thousand met at Johannesburg for tho purpose of protestiug against slanders in England against tho Transvaal oommunity. Charles Leonatd, President of tha Johannesburg National Union, challenged the noisy minority to substantiate the allegations of cruelty. A member of the audience quoted the ill-usßge of six Chin so convicts by warders. He offored to produco witnesses of ill usage in the mines if a guaran*oe wero forthcoming that witnesses would not suffer in regard to their employment. A protest was carried by an overwhelming majority. A resolution moved in the body of the hall urging the Motherland to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the conditions of Chinese labor in the Xiand waß oarried unanimously.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1665, 3 February 1906, Page 2
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