LABOR PREJUDICES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 5

LABOR PREJUDICES.

'HINDUS ;BEATEiS: j',N AMERiqA, V ■. ■ "•-.".•';■ -v' '. ;' ■' ..-\ " A remark'able incident has occurred at Bellingham.a Stato, with a' : ' population of .'about ' There are large ■' sawmills; canneries, and foundries thoro, antT ; osi-' (says the London' "Stan- \ dardV'- of that'date) the .white labourers -,' rais- ' ing.;a-"crv'. of ,, ''.'Drive' , -out the'•■■ Hindu's I" ' jnarcHed- along the waterfront raiding all tho' mills and lin'd m'altreating all male ) Hindus wlioni.they came ncross. These Hin- : dus (who are'mostly ■workers in the sawmills),' ■together with;■■Hindu'.': and cliiklren, were ■Jdriyeii'in.].a : i ' : crowd to tho limits of the , city,.■ wliero. tKey\: were, grimly ordered to ', '"kcep.moy.ing,"Vand;n6t'to re-enter Belling- ( ham: : .Tho'polifeioV being greatly'outnumbered, ( wera.attfirst u)ial)lq to' restrain the disorderly £ sceiibs", so,Ved . many of the Hii'i'duS ffbnv worse .yidlonct! by affording them '; shelttir in the gaol. that building was T filled to its utmost, capacity, 400. other s iafrightod natireji wore piit' under' a strong! [ guard in thet cbfridbrs of.the'City,Hall, ill 'ji spito of' tjieso precautions, however, 750 Hin- r dus were driven from thecity, a'nd'aro now t approaching tho.territory 6t British C'oliim-, d bia, where they will'seek the protection of.the' r British'.flag.'i Six Hindu's "wero so severely b beaten that tliey'-h.-id to bci taken to the lids- 11 pitaK' ;' •'.'. '",' ;. "■'. ". ?'/.['; ' ■'.. a After' tho.polic'o. Had resorted to tho expo- <j diont bf?imm'tiring tho Hindus- as the safest b >;ay. of protecting, them, there was less vio- 0 lence in Uolliiigliani itself, hut the.crowd, pro-, 0 ceeclingto the. outskirts, of the city,.found an- s other hundfecl natives wlio wero also con- t ducted to the citjf. bqundar.v. The Mayor has h sworn in 50 jestrii ipolice as a precautionary 1* .measure: The manufacturers have offered to ti Jre-qmploy the at the same time gnaV a 'rnnte'oiiig them .protection, but llio latter arj- -w too' frigiitciietl tr» return. The! Washington p authorities admif? that thti Government are' .11 liable to' be. as thescHindus o are British subjects. , ■ The fugitives wero ex- a' pected'to reach the'horder. the same, night, al but their pliglit will liardl.v l>e improved, as l ' there are reports that the Canadiaji lumberers c( will try. to. prtiv.ent.them':crossing, tho.anti- P ; Hindu feeling' heing'quite,as 'strong in fjri- rt tish ColnmWa'ns'jit'is.in thti United States. . w -■■.-* •• - ■■ . ■ ■ '.^v Those who go'.to the Colonies with tho in-; 0 ! tont to\ escape from homo; as a general rule D< when given- work complain of its hardness. 0 ) The! Empire has no; need of .them;I—"British1 —"British a, Emigrant." ■:',- :~ ! ■;■•■■' '•