PANAMA LABOUR PROBLEM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8251, 4 October 1906, Page 3

PANAMA LABOUR PROBLEM.

(By Telegraph.) (Per. r.s. Sierra at Auckland.) AUCKLAND, Ist October. A despatch from New York dated "7th September says that Charles Yip 'Tin, the Pierpont Morgan of China, !s in the country investigating the operation of the Amerioan railway system. He is an Amercianised ObiaatiiaD, who is a financial and political power in China, having been roeentiy created a laotai by the Emperor. "Speaking of the\ plan to build the Panama Chnal with coolie labour, he said: "It is easy for your President to say the so otiou of the labour problem on the Panama Cana! may be met by the importation of Chinese coolies. It is quite another matter to get coolies in any great number to work on yonr grent enterprise under the conditions named. my Government or my people are anxious to further this work. Tbe Government realise that the coolies would not receive the same consideration shown to labourers 6f ther nationalities, and the common people themselves have become thoroughly conversant with all the details of your exclusion law, of the climatic perils of Panama, and of the, bonding scheme • affecting coolie labourers on the canal. I think I can sum up their feelings best by saying they will not help to buy ten thousand dollars' worth of American prosperity at the expense of one dollar's worth of Chinese labour and goffering. If the United States must have labourera' lives to saorifice, why not employ a few thousands of other foreigners who are admitted to your country at this port every year? We know the value of our labour and intend to keep it at home as much . as possible.