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THE OGRE FOR SINN FEIN.
OBITUARY.
MR. W. J. TUTORIA.
THE CHINA MATI
The death occurred at 1155 last! alght at his residence, 1, Peak Road,
LABOUR PRICES IN THE COLONY,
THE THREATENED STRIKE,
Valia adeo, During va residence of Fless "thần" tón. "Võera" I "the"Far East) the writer has noticed, a general inę rease in the cont_cl_native_produce -not only eggs, but every article of -food.:
THE VALUE OF LABOUR.
of Mr. W. J. Tatcher, the SuperinBY AN ENGINEERING CORRESPONDuring the last ten or fifteen years
tendant of the Botanical and Forestry Department. The deceased gentle man was born in. November 1867
DENT.
there has been developed a new ser vice. We may call it, for want) DEK This is no attempt to discuss the heter title, the science of human and came to the Colony in December merits or the de-merits of the strike efficiency."An employer of labour in 1891 to take up the appointment of which is threatened by the mechanics the United States named Taylor was assistant Superintendent of the Deal Hongkong. That is a quarrel the first man to become, famous in partment. During the succeeding chiefly between the mechanie's guild connection with it. He demonstrated years he was several times acting and the dock companies, although that it was often more profitable 10. Superintendent, and he attained his smaller employers of labour are also pay high wages than small wages. present position in 1910.
involved. We do not wish to pre-But, of course, he discovered that the The late Mr. Tutcher was very well judice the case in any way. It may men to whom he paid high wages known throughout the Colony and he argued that on the whole the less organisers of social functions have said about it the better until the crisis time and again expressed their in- debtedness to him for the loan of ecomes a threat to the prosperity of plants and invaluable assistance in the Colony which we hope will never happen. But the matter is, neverthe the work of decoration.
less, of great public interest
He had been ill for some time, first contracting infueuza, which devel loped into pneumonia. From this hel seemed to be recovering and after a time again went to his office, only to be taken sick and to collapse again. From then on his health has been fluctuating, but his friends were confident of improvement, as last night he went down to dinner. He was
and taken suddenly l though once To the Editor of the "Chine Mall"] [medical assistance was at
summoned it was of no avail.
As a Freemason, Mr. Tutcher SIR-The writer of the leading enjoyed the greatest confidence and article of the date, appears to be popularity. He might be regarded under the delusion that Ireland's as one of the most prominent mem. Hong troubles date from Cromwell's entry bers of the craft in the Colony. He that Chinese children upon the scene. To anyone at all was Senior Past Master of Zetland were openty bought and sold in Hongkong, familiar with Irish history the fallacy Lodge and Senior Past Principal of Colonel Amery, replying, emphasised of such an assumption will be very the Victoria Royal Arch Chapter, in
enforced or of slavery was egally recognised in Hungkung. If apparent. Ireland may indeed have addition to being Fast Master in the Chinaman liked to pay & sum to parca's been an Island of Saints and scholars, Mark Degree. He was a prominent
LONDON, April 1st. Colonel John Ward, in his question in he House of Commous regarding the sale I children referred to conditions Hongkong and not in Shanghai He drew attention to a statement in the
Telegraph Song
that
no forni
earned more than the men they re- placed. Taylor struck a resounding blow at one of the fallacies of the ocialists. All men are decidedly not equal, nor should the rewards offer od them for a day's work, be the same. Taylor proved "that if you can got afficiers labour it is good policy to may highly for it. Fut blumly he demonstrated this lact which is now accepted in most parts of the English speaking world. It is cheaper to pay a good man two dollars a day thin a lazy man one dollar a day for the same class of work.
,
SKILLED V. UNSKILLED LABOUR. The great division in the labour world of to-day is between skilled and unskilled labour. In Hongkong usually refer to unskilled labour as coolie" labour. A maximum figure for that type of work seems to be wage of ten doftars a month, although cases have been known in which
Chinese labour is often excellent, eleven dollars a month have been paid to such unskilled labour as the leader but also it is often very much over in a four-coolie chair. Some of this rated. Employers of labour in China class of labour is done by men who who, have had experience of English are quick and intelligent, bur mest of conditions. Find that, in ordinary-en-
gineering work, it is necessary to em it is carried on by those who are very title better than beasts of buden aloy many more Chinese on a job You have to study this type of laboushan there are Europears on the same closely in order to realise that the first class of work in Britain. These pro- climatic conditions. The average and almost the last thought is the blems are, of course, complicated by
pace in Hongkong as "at home"-- much higher than that of the animais struggle for existence. Their idea o pleasure is of a standard certainly of European does not work at the same
of a girl and adopt her, she could do any-but it was at such a remote period member of the Victoria Freceptory It is unpleasant to diseass the subject any rate not during the SUTmer
03
better.
rates.
RAISING FAR EASTERN FREIGHTS.
39
The artisan in this Colony appears to have a varying reward. It seen that you can get a carpenter much! cheaper than a mechanic. Of course the carpenter uses his native tools and the mechanic uses those introduced by Europeans. Probably there are
months. The general theory, locally, is that you must employ three Chinese workmen on an engineering job: for. she one man employed in a British work shop. That may be an exag- geration. Bat it is quite certain that ou must employ more men-even i not in the ratio of three to one. -
Everybody, in theory at any rate, approves of "welfare work, but ther is all a question of degree. The Chinese finers in Hongkong.are rela lively quite well off. But the Ch the idea of hiring our labour. The Chinese is, beyond all else, an in-. He likes to work for dividualist. himself. There can be no doubt this the Chinese obtain, hired labour sta much lower rate than it is possible for Europeans to secure it at. For hat reason there is a great deal of sub-letting of contracts.
of the Rose Croix and thing that any other free citizen could do. of history that it may be neglected and
The Knight Templar degrees. On the detail. And it is only fair to say There was no power or restraint over her for practical considerations.
of W. Bro. Donald that there are exceptions. But forgal present deplorable condition is not retirement
that the struggle for existence is ver person.
.was appointed Colonel Ward suggested that was the very different to what it has been MacDonald, he
Deputy District Grand Master and hard in China. Many go under rather than the practice.
for the past 1,000 years. theory
Colonel Amers replied that was the péiat
Cromwell's methods may have ruled the lodges of the English Con- each year because they cannot obta an which it was desired to have fulier in been, harsh-and (viewed from the stitution pertaining to the District food and shelter formation. If adopted children were, ca able to get away. then it certainly ought to year 1920) they were undoubtedly of Hongkong and South China dur rate they were ing the recent absence, from the be inquired into, theagh he was not quite so, but a: any
to the special Colony of Rt. Wor Bro. T. F. Hough. sure that even in England adopted chilt effective, and as
of the Irish, it He also held corresponding rank in ren could always get away when they liked, treatment He agreed that it there was anything should be borne in mind that the the District Grand Royal Arch wrong the sooner it was deals with the massacre of tens of thousands of Chapter of Hongkong and South
Protestants in 1641 was still fresh in China.
It is understood that Mr. Tatcher available many more carpenters thanese mature does not uke kindly to the minds of both he and his armies, many of whose friends and relations would shortly have retired on pen-mechanics. But as far as observa tion of local conditions can be trusted were cruelly done to death in that sion. treacherous cnslaught, and small The funeral takes place this even-it is possible to get a good worker be LONDON, April 1st.
a carpenter, at about eighteen dollars The Times seems, doubtful if the recent wonder if Cromwell's Ironsides con- ing, passing the Monument at 5.15.
a month, while a worker in mere decision of the British shipping lines serv-sidered themselves as the "avengers
a Ritter or a machinist can obtain ing the Far East to increase the export of blood."
The mentality of the Irish can be freights from the United Kingdom will be enforced, owing to the reduction in the summed up in the incident referred them all for Sian Feiners; there be from twenty-five to thirty dollars
But lar all price of bunker coals and the fact this to by the writer in the K. O. S. B. in stood alone against hundreds of math. A really reliable leading hand the Japanese Board of Trade bus not signi Dublin. There a party of soldiers, his race. I recognised him as a poor or foreman the number one" of fied its intention of approving the rise in
regards the claim of the Far sent to intercept the landing of rifles, half starved dwarfed specimen of large shop-probably receives as hat, the Chinese fitter likes to have for such hopes, this is the era of Eastern lines that their rates compare Were set upon by the mob and stoned, humanity whom I used to know in much as anything from a hundred his own little place and so does the very favourable with those on the other boobed and fired upon, upon which days gone by. His father, mother. dollars up to one hundred and fit Chinese carpenter.
When we come to consider othe
mass production. The small man in routes, the Ines instances the fact that the officer crdered his men to fire brothers and sisters, and all bis dollars a month." while the highest rate on the measurement after giving due notice of his inten- relations were Sinn Feiners to a man of cargo frun the United Kingdom to tion, with the result that three were (and woman) probably he was one types of labour we are at once struck Britain is disappearing if he has not himself, but when half "foo." 3 years with the relatively high pay which is already disappeared altogether. Ex- Japen in a net per ton, the highest rate killed or wounded. to the Mediterranean porty is 112s. 6d., and A howl of execration and hatred before, the sight of a military band given to clerks. Of course bilingan perience has proved that enormous remarks that competicion on the Japanese arose throughout the length and aroused a feeling in his soul and clerks who are competent typists and economies are possible when there is lines well to considerable influence breadth of the land-to shoot an before he was sober he found himself short-hand writers are valuable and mass production. The last home of is a dastardly crime duly enrolled in His Majesty's Army, no doubt the demand is greater that the individualist worker will possibly it done by an Englishman in self. For 3 years he fought and endured the supply. In this Colony as much be China, but even that most con- defence. but to commit black foul in Salonica, Mesopotamia, Palestine as, one one hundred and fifty dollars servasive country will not be able to murder in a most cowardly manner and Egypt, hunger and thirst, dust a month has been paid-possibly continue the system indefinitely. is an eminently laudable and praise and heat, but amongst his comrades-more-to a clerk who can write Eng. Certainly it is quite impossible to worthy action when done by Sinn in the great adventure he forgot lish, shorthand and use a typewrite: build standard ships, except in a large
the pertiness of
machine. On the other hand there works. Therefore there must be Feiners on an unsuspecting fellow all countryman. In no case has an Irish Sinn Feiner upbringing, and are clerks employed by Europeans some sort of organisation of such an jury expressed any sympathy with found him in the streets of his native only for typing purposes who receive industry. It is rather sad to see this the murdered man's relations, but any village, fighting his chums of earlier hour forty or Afty dollars a month. effort at collective bargaining" by Sinn Fein who met his death while years, and refusing even to let his Such labour is usually dear in the end. the Chinese fitters. From their point of view it may seem intensely modern. attempting to kill a policeman or other own father touch him, no Sinn Feiner
But it is hard to sker human nature. official gets a public funeral, white would be allowed to contaminate him intense sorrow and sympathy is ex with as much as a touch. As I hove
And the one thing that has never yet sight, the sight pressed with his family and relations.in
succeeded in China is co-operation among the Chinese. They seem un able to produce leaders or to serve leaders loyally. That is the real
on the rates to the Far East,
FOOTBALL
YESTERDAY'S "EXHIBITION"
MITCH.
NAVY DEFEAT KOWLOON.
The Exhibition " match played yesterday attracted a moderate crowd and was unexciting. The Navy team was composed mainly of Ambrose men, with two from the Tamar and one from the Fame. Kowloon was not at full strength, missing Ras- mussen, who broke his collar bone last week in a practice match, and Taylor, who was unable to get away owing to the strike at Kowloon docks.
In the first half, during which the play was of an indifferent nature, Jarvis scored for the Navy." Early in the second half Handford added to the Navy score. This was fal lowed soon after by a goal for Kow. loon, scored by Mitchell, who was one of the most prominent players on his side. Kowloon missed severa!" chances of scoring, and the Navy wos by the odd goal in three. Wheeler and White were others who rendered good service for Kewloon
After the match Master Gunner' May, a member of the League Management Committee, presented the Cup to Hayward, the Captain of the Navy team, and, in doing so, said that the Navy had had a record season and that Hayward had not let the ball past him once in the. Eeague: Kowloon, also, had. a successful season and he wished them better luck next year.
SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY. TIBE fun of Chamberlain's Cough
Irishman
To a Sinn Feiner an Englishman other bit
cannot
his
of an
It exasperates.
COSTS EY NORTH CHINA.
Unfortunately
It must be remembered that the of kkaki caught cost of labour in China has risen ver
perform
a disinterested his eye and be embraced me and considerably during the last fifteen There are many causes to action there, is always a sinister drunk as he was I felt proud of him years. motive behind it. Look at the mur- and as I led him sway to safer account for this revolutions and risc der of the Mayor of Cork. The first quarters he raised his voice repeatedly question asked by T. P. O'Conner in "To H-L with the Sinn Feiners and Was God save our Glorious King"-his the House of Parliament was it not a fact that the murder had choice of adjectives was superb.
Ah yes, my almost half starved and been done by the English Authorities and the fact that after the murder, wholly diminutive drunk compatriot, soldiers were placed in the murdered had during his years in Salonica man's residence, was so that all shell swept hill and Mespots sun received from ten to fourteen dollars traces of their crime might be remov. scorched sandy wilderness, learned a month. They worked an eight-hour MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. ed before the public could into be a patriot and a man. The shift, but many of them gladly worked vestigate" Just fancy 98 per cent. of oppresssion of the Turk and German a double shift of sixteen hours in the Sinn Feiners maintaining that the had shown him that the so called ills order to obtain double pay "Lusitania" was sunk by a British of his own land, were only the. It is.
of world-prices are perhaps the chiel. Achilles heel of this guild of Just before the war the writer paid mechanics. It will be of interest to a visit to the Tongshan coal mines see how long the strike lasts. But The Chinese contractor paid his ordiit is very unfortunate for our local nary workman six Mexican dollars prosperity that there is any strike at' month; more if they were skilled. all. There were good coal-cutters whe
course, impossible to give submarine to give the Germans a creation of a distorted imagination, comparative figures of the increase of bad name, while 100 per cent, swear and therein his hope of a r
CHAS R.
WILSON.
The CF09. Co.'s R M.S. Emjazen of Japan arrived at Robe on the 4th April lalt there 5th Amand: ta dus at Yokohama on the 6th April,
Lire) loft Moji for this port on NTK x Shima Marú (Bombay the Sist March and is expected bere on the 4th April
The
land R. Gibson (formerly Chinese The Inspector under the Transvaal Govern ment and a Military Imerpreter in the Chinese language) made this state- The ment: Fourteen or fifteen years ago ane Mexican doffar would have pur chased 1000 eggs in the Tientsin market. Now they cost nearly one cent spiece, of course, food is still relatively much cheaper in China, than it is in Europe In what European
OP.0 Ca's RMS. Mont wile arrived at Moji on the 8th Aprit left tbere 6th April 1 and is due at Kobe on the 7th April.
that the "Leinster" (a ship that was generated Ireland. Education and st, of living in China, although we gone up, both in the North and in the sunk with 300 to 400 Irish passengers travel will prove to suria that under Europeans know that the cost has aboard), was deliberately done to our glorious flag-the Union Jack, is South. Writing in. 1914 Mr. Row-
get their revenge on the Irkh fur to be found the greatest liberty the not joining the army, I have heard whole world affords.-But the Roman both these statements proclaimed in Catholic Churchrefused the Education public meetings without a single Bil-but that is another story- dissentent voice; so much has ignor Yours truly. ence, bigotry and fanatical hatred warped the Sinn Feiners Imagination that it is a sheer impossibility for. him to see or think upon right lines. As an Irishman the problem of Ireland appals, but in my minds eye, arises a scene that may give the
city, could you purchase, a dozen eggs wriver of Singapore on the 2pb solution. In 1918 when on leave in Remedy in world wide. It is good Ireland I had an experience that
for wopence hall-penny, a goose for two shillings and a fowl for pine for the deep sented gogh of the alt
gave me a ray of hope. A crowd Hurst looseness of the hovels is not pence? In actual fact an egg in or the croup and whooping cough of the
had gathered around a diminu Chamberlain's Colic, and Diarrbrow Re- children. Titu same bottle terves the whole family For sale by af Chemiststion figure in the old familar Khaki medy should be given For sale by all England to-day costs Rivepence, but the egg in China has risen in sterling who was swearing volubly cursing Chemists and Storekeepers..
and Storekes ATLAN
BOWEL COMPLAINT. IN CHILDREN.
URING the summer months,chi dren
Dare Ozhjes to, diordern of the bowels and should receive the most
careful attention. As soon as any unna-
N.TH. Toy:ska Maru (Ruro porn line) left Tondon for this por
duex on ibe Sith: Feb, and is expected here on the 7th pri The N.Y.K. Le Bisshima Mars (Euro) penn Line) left Singapore for this port on the 3rd April and li expect nd be on the 8th Ap
Mechan The CP.0.8. Co's 5.5
March lelt there 4th April due at Hongkong on the t 4pril
the N.Y.K... Ybor Maru (Calcutte fine) left Flugapore for this port on the 4th April sad is orpeted here on the 11th April
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