COLOURED LABOUR.
EMPLOYMENT OF LASCARSAUCKLAND, April 30. Mr Kneen, secretary to" the Seamen's Union, replying to the Trelawney interview, declares that the statement that, the P. and 0. employs lascars because it cannot get a sufficient number of trust-, worthy hands is a calumny. Other companies do not discard white i'or cheap, coloured labour. If a lascar was a citizen of the Empire, ■ why was ne not treated as such ? Why was he segregated from the white crew ? Why were his living quarters only a tithe of that ordered to each white man ? Why did the British Government, when chartering a. P and 0. liner as a troopship for Inclin, stipulate that lascars must be replaced by whiles? To say that the P. and 0. Company did not employ lascars for the reason that they were cheap was a subterfuge, official figures proving that on an intercolonial steamer the cost of running the stokehole alone was greater than that of the deck, stokehole, and stewards on the P. and 0. : liner.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 63
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171COLOURED LABOUR. Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 63
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