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ther that it was not so much the intrinsic merits of their case as the increase proposed to be granted to the majority of the Chinese staff that in- duced the petitioners to move
in the matter.
کچھ
In paragraph 7 the petitioners state in effect that the reasons which ap- -ply to the case of the Chinese, apply equally
to their case.
With this I cannot
agree.
and on the following grounds..
(a) there
(a) There is a minimum li-
in er
ving wage
a
community:
every
class of
in the case
the Chinese that has been
raised.
by the advance in rents and the prices of the necessities of life, and it is to meet this enhanced mi-
nimum living
that living wage
the grant is proposed to be made to the Chinese. This
is not the case with the Yor
tuguese and Indians whose salaries considerably execed
the
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