8
Lockhart furnished
7.
me.
Your Lordship will
observe that in this report
(which may
may be largely
relied on as the result
of
the
careful enquiry among Chinese themselves) the -
of coolies engaged
number
on board
on working cargo the vessels affected by the law and handling it in store, is set down at 20,000,
of whom 10,000 are
permanently
employed and paid by the
month
781
month, the remaining half being paid by the job.
It is further stated
that the whole number -
no other kind.
of
perform work, and that they do not find employment
every day It is difficult to ~
understand, therefore, how
employers could with justice
reduce the
the
wages of coolies who are paid by the
month, as the latter will
not