CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 399

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on the telephone and tell him that the servants must cease

work er to ask whether he "preferred hit rice hat or cold"

(a euphemism for whether he would rather be alive or dead).

The servants would then loare en masse.

Frequently a man would come to the servants'

quarters of a house with a similar mensage, In no case

apparently did the serventa infom the master of the house

of such visits until long after the man had loft.

The experiences of my own household are

worth recording. Hy servants told the Aido-de-Camp on Larch

let that they wore afraid they would have to strike though

they were most anxious not to (This was probably true as they

are overpaid and underworked), Arguments and promises of ¿atuities appeared to have some effect and it looked as if

they would stay when on the morning of the 2nd one of them

went out to market. On his return, practically the whole

body declare that they must leave that night, So far as

could be ascertained all that had happened was that some

person in the stroot had said "You are not allowed to work"

or something of the sort.

Pranises of protection were usoloss as they

were met with the answer "Yes, we shall be safe while the

striko lasts as we needn't go outside the groundsbut what will happen afterwards. He shall be killed then".

The argument that it was impossible for the

strikora to kill everybody if ovarybody remained at work did

not seem to appeal to thm. They admitted the fact but

obviously thought that some people would be killed and didn't care to take the risk of being among the manbar, All of them except four house coolies left that night.

These four remained for a day or two, when

one of them (an old house coolie whe had been here for over

30 years and was induced to stay by the argument that he was

so old that it really wouldn't make much difference to him

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