CHINESE SEAMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 169, 19 July 1910, Page 5

CHINESE SEAMEN.

OH BRITISH SHIPS. A VIGOBOUS PROTEST. ENFORCING THE TESTS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.30 ajn.), LONDON, July 18. Mr. Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, at a meeting of seamen at Poplar on Sunday, said: "We must tell of the Government's damned hypocrisy in howling about Chinese in South Africa, and yet allowing Chinese to be dumped in Britain." Drastic action had been taken in South Africa, he said, but Chinese colonies were being founded in the chief ports in Britain on a standard so low that they ought to be excluded. "If the Seamen's Union got 200,000 seamen in Britain and the Continent to take a fortnight's rest the Shipping Federation would be compelled to Le conciliatory and not treat the whites as slaves. They should not insult British seamen by compelling them to be medically examined.

"He would ask Mr. Sydney Buxton, and the Home Secretary, Mr. Winston Churchill, to receive a deputation on July 28th, backed by a hundred members of Parliament, urging the Government to enforce the Act regarding the language test on signing on. There must be no engagement of "scabs" in the dead of night, nor facilities for taking on the sweepings of Hell to Newgate." ,