§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any remonstrance has been addressed to the Colonial Office by the Government of British Columbia, or any of its citizens, against the vetoing of the Provincial Act which prohibited the employment of cheap Japanese labour in the mines of the colony; whether the labour party of the colony has protested against this interference with the legislative privileges of the people of British Columbia, on the ground that the action of the Dominion Legislature has been influenced by the capitalists of the colony, whose interests favour the employment of cheap Asiatic labour in the mines; and whether he is aware that the labour organisations of Canada are in active sympathy with the views of similar bodies in British Columbia, and demand that some adequate safeguard shall be provided for the protection of Canadian labour throughout the whole of the Dominion against the influx of cheap labour from the East, which it is alleged this vetoing of the Act of prohibition will precipitate to the injury of the white workers of all the Canadian provinces.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN,) Birmingham, W.The answer to all three questions is in the negative. I have received no protests on the subject.