CHINESE IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 86, 20 July 1910, Page 5

CHINESE IN BRITAIN

A VEHEMENT SPEECH. By Cable.—Press Association.—CopyrigM London, July 18. Mr. Ilavelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, at a meeting of seamen at Poplar on Sunday, said he must tell them of the Government's damned hypocrisy. They howl about Chinese in South Africa, yet allow Chinese to be dumped into Britain. Drastic action had been taken in Smith Africa, bu Chinese colonies were being formed in the .chief ports of Britain. Their standard of living was so low that they ought to be excluded. J.'f the Seamen's Union got 200,000 seamen, Britain and the Continent would take a fortnight's rest, and the Shipping Federation would be compelled to be conciliatory, not to treat whites as slaves, not to insult British seamen by compelling them to be medically examined. He'would ask Mr. Buxton, Home Secretary, to receive a deputation on July 28,' backed by a hundred members nf Parliament,, urging him to enforce the Act regarding the language test. Swrning oil must be no engagement of scabs in the dead of night, nor must it give facilities for the sweepings of hell to get out by a new "-ate.