The “Yellow Agony.”

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3681, 30 March 1904, Page 2

The “Yellow Agony.”

DEMONSTRATION 1M HYDE PARK. London, March 27. • The Standard’s Tientsin correspondent states that it is proposed that the contract under which the Chinese labourers are engaged for the Transvaal shall have currency for three years wicK the option of renewal. The passage to and from the Transvaal and, food, housing, and medical attendance are to be free, a working day to be ten hours, and wages to be twenty-five shillings per month with the option of piece work enabling them to earn fifty shillings. Work on Sundays aud Chinese holidays to be optional and reckoned as overtime. March 28.

Seventy thousand persons participated in the demonstration in Hyde Pa:k against the introduction of Chinese into the Transvaal.

Speeches were delivered by Messrs John Burns. Crooks, Macuamara, and Broadhurst, members of the House of Commons, and the Rev. Dr Clifford, emphatically protesting against the importation of Chinese under conditions of slavery, aud calling for protection for the new colony from the greed of capitalists. LORD MILNER’S OPINION. "DOES NOT CAKE TWOPENCE WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK." Capetown, March 28. Lord Milner, in a speech at Johannesburg, said he had been subjected to attacks in England for five years which might be proof of narrow-mindedness and inability to look beyond the most obvious things but so long us be was in possession of the confidence of the people of the Transvaal Ire did not care twopence what people sis thousand miles away thought.