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DIFFICULTIES CREATED BY GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE,
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THE TONG' WAR' IN NEW YORK.
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Evening Standard, October 9th: and the On Leungs have signed a peace The Tong war is over. The Hip Sings treaty in due form and in the presence
There is a housing deficiency in New Zealand. The war was not the original or even the chief cause of the deficiency Although it made it more acute. "In an endeavour to find a remedy, New Zealand of the Chinese Conaul. But 100 Chinn men are to be deported to the land of has spent much money and made many their fathers The imported gunmen and experiments, some similar to those which
the hatchet men will be paid in good are now being discussed or tried in Eng American dollars, and John Chinamah land... Her chief gain has been experi-will go back to his laundry until the next ence. With this experience it is now Teng war breaks out. coming to be understood that Govern- ment aid, given lavishly, may creato
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Twenty years ago the Goverment of the day began to creet dwellings which were ande available to workers for rent or on easy purchase terms. Each Govern- ment since has continued the practice of building, or assisting people of small means to build. It is only now that some doubt is arising whether the mea sures adopted have heen wholly wise. In his last Budget speech, the Minister of Finance said:--
The Government is continuing the policy of rendering all possible assistance to overcome the shortage of houses. It should not, however, he expected of the State alone to provide the means of meat ing the difficulty, and the housing problem will not be solved until privato capital is more extensively employed than has been the case in the immediate past. There is at present some sign of increased activity in the desired direction, and I trust that, with the united efforts of all sections of the community, the shortage will be speedily overcome.
eight in the morning. From each cab alighted four men, each group backed away from the other, and the members of the opposing teams began firing at cach other with revolvers. Three passers-by, entirely unconnected with the gunmen, were wounded. The warring factiona vanished.
In Chinatown, however, they manage their quarrels uterently. Here when strange things there is a Toag war" OF happen. The Chinese theatre was crowd. ed every night during the war just finish- cd, crowded that is until the night when
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by accident" the spot light was flashed on the audience which sits not on the beaches but on the back of the benches with the feet resting on the scats. spot light remained for a few brie! seconds on the scared yellow faces of three men. And before dawn those three men died, violently and, horribly, a dozen yards from the Bowery, and a quarter uf an hour's run from the heart of New York.
On Saturday night one can see fifty thousand Chinese shopping in Chinatown. They patter from shop to shop, buying docks, sucking rigs, roasted whole, and the streets dooking unconcernedly at the queer vegetables. Irish policemen patrol lithe young Chinese girls gliding along, their glittering almond-shaped eyes ap- parently unseeing the obese and wealthy merchants standing at the doors of stores, from which come rich and heady perfumes of the East..
State operations began with the cree. tion of groups of dwellings for applicants of limited means. These were strictly workers' cottages, grouped and party standardized. But this method did not prove highly popular, and now the only Government building is that undertaken by the larger Departments of State, railways and Public Works, for their own employees. The more general State assistance is that given by the State Advances to Sattlers and Workers De.
Here the police have raided partment, which lends money on long term table mortgages at 41 to 3 per cent. opium dens by the score, but they know for the purchase or erection of homes full well that as many dens exist to-day About 1,000 houses have been actually as bave ever been raided since the first erected by the Government, apart from Chinese came to New York. Patches of some 800 built by special, Department laundry, as innocent looking as any you orange light denote the presence of a but the financial assistance has been in a London suburb. A young upon a much greater scale.
Through the State advances and special loans to discharged soldiers, the Govern- ment, in the past six years, has assisted the erection or purchase of 39,500 houses at a cost of approximately, £1,300,000. For these advances there is good security, losses are trifling, and not all the money used is new capital, 25% repayments furnish funds for fresh loans. But the cost is nevertheless, so heavy that it ia clear that operations cannot continue at this rate. Yet there is a demand for con- tinuance and even for accelerated action to overtake applications which are now many months in arrears.
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The truth is that the Government assist- ance has been so liberal and so exten- aive that many people have now come, to regard house-building finance as an ordinary function of Government, sobic- thing like the service of the National Debt Faced with this expectation tha the State should provide a house "for everybody, prudent people see at once
at the task cannot be undertaken. They are now seeking means of bringing private enterprise back into the financial side of the small dwelling construction business..
There are few builders now who under take
I have been shown mysterious under- ground passages which lead into distant streeta
Chinese is ironiaga ahirt; he fills his glass of water, and as. be mouth from iroas he sprays his work. A policeman whispers in your car that this time last night a Chinaman passing this shop fell Who was the murderer, surely not this dead with three bullets through his head. young man with the impassive face iron- ing a shirt The policeman shruge his shoulders.
ders. "We've got nothing on him," be mutters.
Ten minutes later I am in my room, but the smell of orris root lingers in my nostrils, and the memory of those silent men of Chinatown remains long after I! have extinguished the light.
"A CLASS THAT WOULD DESTROY US."
AMERICAN LABOUR AND THE SOVIET:
The position of the American Federa tion of Labour in regard to the Russian Labour movement is vividly, indicatel in the reply made by Mr. Green, the president of the American Federation, to an address by Mr. Arthur Purcell, MP., & representative of the British
the construction of houses except Trade Union Congress, who criticized upon contract No one builds to let the Americans as most slow in nccept- and where the sale is on easy terms there is usually a backing of Governmenting new social and political ideas"
Mr. Purcell expressed the hope that the money. The builder is not taking the risk The reason is quite evident that American Federation of Labour would private finance has been unable to hold send delegations to Russia to establish its own in the small house trade and close fraternal relations with the workers' compete with the Government, which there.
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