NOT FAST WORKERS
CHINESE AT TOIL. Those who regard the average Celestial as a patient and ceaseless toiler will bo interested to know that there is a very- good reason for the long hours worked. Rev. E. Y. R. Leo, the Chinese missioner, who visited Palmerston North during the week-end, told a reporter that, although ah industrious people, the Chinese were not capable of fast work. “If the Government forced the Chinese to observe an eight hour day,” he said, “within a very short time the majority- would leave the country as it would be impossible for them to compete with the European.” It was only by working very- long hours that a fair day’s work was done. Rev. Lee explained that in China tho Chinaman had another reason for tho ca’canny method, in a shop employing say six or seven hands, a man set to perform a task which could be dono in two hours would spin it out to make it last most of the day, as the employer would dismiss any of his men not continually working.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 217, 18 August 1925, Page 9
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