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C 40<br />
FONG AR Soo was called.<br />
560. Chairman.-What is your name ?-FONG As Soo.<br />
561. You are Head Carpenter, Singapore Har!x.l1r Board ?-Yel.<br />
562. Howald are you ?-32.<br />
563. Are you China-born ?-No. Straits-born.<br />
564. You ha\·e never been to China ?-Yes, I have been.<br />
565. How many times?-Twice.<br />
566. Are you married?-Yes.<br />
567. Where is your wife ?-In Singapore.<br />
568. Is she Straits-born also ?-No.<br />
569. Are you an opmm smoker ?-No.<br />
570. Never been ?-No.<br />
571. How many men have you got working with you ?-About 3S<br />
at present; sometimes 1 have more and sometimes less.<br />
572. Are they all Cantonese?-Yes.<br />
573. Any opium smokers amongst them?-Yes.<br />
574. About how many in every 10 ?-2.<br />
575· Are opium smokers as good workers as the non-smokers ?-The<br />
non-smokers are better workers.<br />
576. Then why do you engage opium smokers ?-When 1 have got,<br />
work and they apply to me I engage them.<br />
577· Do you know an opium smoker when you, see him?-Yes, I<br />
can see he is a smoker.<br />
578. But that is the opium "sot", not the man who smoke!! a few<br />
pipes a day surely?-Yes, some of them I could not make out, but I could<br />
make out the heavy smokers.<br />
579. When you find out that a man is an opium smoker, do you discharge<br />
him on the spot or not ?-No.<br />
580. Why; they are not bad workers then ?-If their work is not good<br />
and they do not listen to my instructions, I dismiss them; but, even if they<br />
smoke opium if they can do my work I take them on.<br />
581. You say "listen to my instructions"; are opium smokers more<br />
disobedient than 'non-smokers ?-Yes.<br />
582. Do you say they are more lazy than the non-smokers?-Yea.<br />
583. Are there any other grievances against the opium smoR'er that<br />
you would like to bring forward ?-As an employer of labour I say this, they<br />
are more lazy and slower at their work.<br />
584. But is the work of as good class as that done by the nonsmokers<br />
?-Yes.<br />
585. Do any of your people drink liquor?-Yea.<br />
586. Many?-Yes, 7 out of 10.<br />
587. What kind of liquor do they drink ?-Chinese liquor.<br />
588. Do they never drink foreign liquor?-Yes, some of them do.<br />
sSg. Have you ever seen any of your coolies drunk ?-No.
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