THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1483, 16 November 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1905

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"DOES Chhieso labour pay?" is a qpestion that is now being considered in connection with the Band ' mines, The question has arisen in consequence of abundance of evidence that the experiment as far as the Rand ia concerned is a failure. - A leading Home paper, the Pall Mall " Gwtte,'in an article beaded" Are e KafflV,V»lupi Too HifibT submits 0 some Btrikirg fads and figure? dealr ing with the profile and dividends" of the Rand mines. The writer hag 1 taken the average expenses of various i ojfpe!) for the year preceding the me

Chinese, and contrasted them ith the expenses fpr June last, lien the coolies were in possession, ho results show that in 'six mines .Dorbnn Roodeport Deep, Glensnhms Deep, Glen Deep, Nourse >eep, Rose, Deep, and Jumpers leop-all worked by Chinese, there as been a more or less serious inreane in expenses, while in three lines worked by Kaffirs—Ferreira )oep, Crown Deep, and I/uiglaate )eop-(uero has boon an equally übstantially decrease in the exjenses, Applying another test to he three mines—Simmer and Jaelt, 31en Deep and Angelo-using cooli • labour last June, andiividinß the tons milled by the number of coolie employed, the writer obtains an average of 9} tons per coolie per month. We give tho soqucl in hi 3 own words:—''Now, in theieport of the Rand Mines (Limited) for 1903, the Chairman gave the average number of Kaffirs working during the year as 8898. The nnmber of tons milled was 1,447,502, so that the work of each Kaffir represented Yi\ tons per month. Other things beins eqnal, therefore, the Kaffir apparently does nearly 80 per cent, mors work than the coolie. It,must bf evident, from these fignreß, that lh< Chinese have not been a snccesi financially or economically, and with the social difficulties in addi tion, tho hope of any material im proyement is extremely remote.' From an economic standpoin Chinese labour on the ltand i

therefore a failure.: Bat apart from' 'this the presence of Chinese, on the Rand in a menace to the peace of the country and a danger to the lives of the Inhabitants.' ;Mos't of the Rand : papers are controlled by the ;• mining companies, so 'that; reports publißhed by them ofChiuese atrocities may be taken as authentic, the only fault being that the mildest aspect of the crimes committed are given to the public, Yet these, papers teem with accounts of wandering bands: of Chinamen, ''whose robberies and murders, have created a reigii of terror on the isolated farms of the teidt./The Chinese, according to tho reports, refuse to work unless absolutely compelled, and are continually catling for police interference.; The Chinese are a,bar,to the progress of the' Transvaal, and are the sole cause of the serious:condition of things that hag; prevailed,for some time in the new colony, and' is prevailing W- ''■, s, ■:;■■? Jl'-'\\. <'