REQUISITIONED LABOUR.
“WORSE THAN SLAVERY.”
Received Julv 15, 9.59 a.m. GENEVA, July 14. Professor Ross, and Doctor Crammer, two Americans, reported to the League that requisitioned labour in Anglo-Portuguese East Africa was worse than the old domestic slavery. Soldiers carried off from their homes men, women and children and made them work on the roads. The money that the planters paid seldom reached the workers—it was taken by the officials. The workers were living in a chronic state of semi-starvation. They were without the time and strength to cultivate the fields and the mortality was increasing. The native policemen were the real rulers of the country.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 189, 15 July 1925, Page 9
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