HC Deb 20 June 1904 vol 136 c463
MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state what is the number of the white labourers employed on the mines of the Transvaal who will be liable to be superseded by Chinese labourers on the ground that they are employed on unskilled work of a kind on which Kaffirs have been or are employed.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) I am not able to make such a statement. The question, under the Ordinance, as to what work is usually performed in mines in the Witwatersrand district by persons belonging to the native races, is one of fact, and in the event of controversy will of course be decided by the Courts of Law.