CHINESE LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 3

CHINESE LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

* , , A MINE. MANAGER'S VIEWS. 1 [Pbe Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 6. Mr Bradley, manager of the Langlaate Deep Mine, Limited, Johannesburg, is visiting Wellington. Speaking to a " Times" representative he said, with reference to Chinese labour in the Rand, that the feeling in favour of the Chinese was just as strong as that against them. Native labour could not b& procured in sufficient force for the work required to be done 'in the' mines. It was nigger's work, and unsuited to white men — moving rock and shovelling quartz — and, moreover, there was the prevailing objection to white mep working underground alongside of Kaffir*. A preat Dumber of low grade mines could not be profitably worked except by black labour, 'and many of these mines were now idle for want, of labour. He did not think that the employment of Chinese would oust the white man. because skilled men would always get work in the mine® at decent wages.