Continuing Mfr. Chao said it is obvious that the employers would be benefitted by this deplorable situation, They would of course employ workers who are subjected to lower standards of treatment in order. to tate their competition for pri-vote gains, The natural result would bbe the Joss of employment on the part" of those who have the Fight to claim better treatment. Tt seems that such loss of employment is wholly due to the undue competi Ylons of the low wage earners, the employers, in taking advantage of this" misconception, can easily chest their own national workers by denying. the fact of unjust treatment and simply make the Chinese workers the scapegoat for all the evils. They can easily condemn the ques-lon of unemployment s due to the evils of Chinese seamen in taking up the occupations which would otherwise be assigned for their nationals. Without ascertaining the real nature of things, an average worker would naturally believe in such condemnations. The result is that the Chinese seamen, having suffered from the oppression of their employers, the unfair treatment of the authorities of
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