§ MR. KEIR HARDIE (Merthyr Tydvil)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether His Majesty's Government has sanctioned or is lending support to the movement of the mine-owners to import Chinese or other Asiatic labour into the Transvaal.
§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received reports of the meeting held at Johannesburg early in April, and attended by about 5,000 men, at which a resolution was adopted, with practical unanimity, against the introduction of
† See page 536.1634 Asiatic labour for the mines or other industries in the Transvaal; whether the Government have expressed any opinion on this question in despatches to Lord Milner or otherwise; and, in that case, when Papers on the subject may be expected to be laid upon the Table.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI have seen a report of the meeting referred to. The opinions which I expressed to Lord Milner, when I was in South Africa, are the same as those contained in my statement in the House of Commons on 19th March.†