Those Chinese Serfs

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, Issue 42, 19 October 1905, Page 18

Those Chinese Serfs

It looks as if the Rand is, in more senses than one, to be ' ruined by Chinese cheap labor. 1 P'or a considerable time past, cable despatches report the perpetration of 'grave and numerous crimes by the sla/nt-ey«d serfs that were imported into the Transvaal in order to fill to still further repletion the bulging pockets of the Stock Exchange magnates and the hook-nosed foreign money lords of the Rand. Not only have the yellow pagans committed nvurders within the compounds in which) they are imprisoned, but (says an English contemporary.) ' they have deserted and murdered inoffensive farmers in the country p-arts adjacent to the mines. So serious has the situation become that the Transvaal authorities have strengthened the cordons of police, and gone so far as to supply magistrates with arm« and ammunition which they may serve out to the farmers for their protection against outrage by these deserters. Such a situation pro\ides its own commentary on the justice and wisdom of bringing those wretched coolies from China to secure cheap labor for the mine-owners of the Rauid.'