THE YELLOW AGONY.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Having nothing particular to do on Saturday night, 1 had a quiet smoke in the street opposite the shop of a Chinese tradesman in Masterton. I counted no fewer than seventy-two Europeans enter a broken-down Celestia shanty in the couise of an hour, and all of them came out laden with parcels. Most of them were women and young girls, and some of the latter were chuckling and laughing as they entered and left the shop. I should say that nine-tenths of the women were the wives of working men. Is it not a disgrace to our civilisation that we find Chinamen, who observe no fixed hours of labour, and who live on "the smell of an oilrag," thriving at the expense of our logitimate tradesmen, and fed hy the working man who clamours for a "white Australia!" The hypocrisy of the worker is sickening.—l am, etc., j , ANTI-CHOW.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10126, 24 October 1910, Page 5
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155THE YELLOW AGONY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10126, 24 October 1910, Page 5
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