Post by NZBC on Jan 15, 2011 15:50:20 GMT 12
while the Chinaman, an entire alien, comes into our country and starts m the laundry trade. fi& is allowed to work at any hour and as many hours as he pleases,, uses unsanitary methods, and works m premises unsuited for the purposes of a. laundry, both of which being highly, injurious to public health. From the foregoing you will see that gross injustice exists In the fact that white men are bound down by 1 their owr Government to work their emptdf€€
The Chinaman, however, worked from Sunday till Saturday. Their shops were opened' after the theatres emptied. People could be seen emerging from the Chinese laundries at all hours carrying their parcels. Under the Factories Act, the European could not do tTiat. A few ' years ago m Wellington there were abdut 12 or 13 Chinese laundries, to-day there were 41, and if time permitted, it co'ald no doubt be ascertained that there were over 50. Only within the past month six new Chinese laundries had been started m NeWtown. The Europeans felt it very much, and during the past six or seven . years their business had riot increased to the extent it should have- The Chinaman got the wor la that should go to the European, arid they asked that the Chinaman should be made to work under the same laws that controlled the European.
NZ Truth , Issue 215, 7 August 1909, Page 5 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZTR19090807.2.33&cl=search&srpos=61&e=-------100-NZTR-1----0chinaman+--&st=1
The Chinaman, however, worked from Sunday till Saturday. Their shops were opened' after the theatres emptied. People could be seen emerging from the Chinese laundries at all hours carrying their parcels. Under the Factories Act, the European could not do tTiat. A few ' years ago m Wellington there were abdut 12 or 13 Chinese laundries, to-day there were 41, and if time permitted, it co'ald no doubt be ascertained that there were over 50. Only within the past month six new Chinese laundries had been started m NeWtown. The Europeans felt it very much, and during the past six or seven . years their business had riot increased to the extent it should have- The Chinaman got the wor la that should go to the European, arid they asked that the Chinaman should be made to work under the same laws that controlled the European.
NZ Truth , Issue 215, 7 August 1909, Page 5 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZTR19090807.2.33&cl=search&srpos=61&e=-------100-NZTR-1----0chinaman+--&st=1