Nov. 4.
Euroreans who have had long experience with Asiatic labour invariably speak highly.of the Chinese workman. Railway engineers say that the Chinese coolie is a much better man than the Malay, the Siamese or the Indian who does unskilled labour. Certainly it will be conceded that, so far as skilled labour is concerned, the Chinese worker is excellent although, comparisons concerning labour are always difficult, especially under different climatic conditions.
It is sometimes asserted, by European foremen and employers of labour in China, that it takes three Chinese to do the work of one white man. It is not easy,
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