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2376. On what work ?-I have 3 pineapple factories and they are<br />
employed in those factories.<br />
2377. Is canning pineapples your principal trade ?-I am also a rubber·<br />
planter at Johore,<br />
2378. Axe the pineapple factories in J ohore also?-Yes.<br />
2379. Altogether how man,) coolies do you employ, rubber and pineapple<br />
?-More than 1,000. .<br />
2380. What nationality are they?-All tribes of Chinese.<br />
2381. You employ only Chinese ?-Yes.<br />
2382. Have you got many opium smokers amongst the thousand odd<br />
coolies ?-About 20 per cent. .<br />
2383. Do you think that anyone tribe smokes more than any other<br />
one amongst your coolies?-Yes, Hokkiens and Tiechius are the heavier<br />
smokers.<br />
2384. Do more "out-door" coolies than "in-door" coolies smoke?<br />
More "in-door" coolies.<br />
2385. What wages do the pineapple factory coolies get ?--'10 per cent<br />
of the coolies in my factories are job coolies. .<br />
2386. How much do they earn in a month approximately?-The job<br />
coolies get $2 or $3 a day, but they do not get work every day; work is<br />
uncertain .<br />
. 2387. Taking the pineapple coolies, is the non-smoker a much better<br />
worker than the smoker ?-Opium smokers, when I give them work, work<br />
very hard in order to get the money to buy their opium; .but when I am<br />
able to give them work every day they are not such good workers.<br />
2388. Have you ever dismissed a man from the pineapple factory<br />
because he was an opium smoker?-Yes, a few.<br />
2389. They were "sots"?-Yes.<br />
2390. Can you tell an opium smoker by looking at him ?-Sometimes.<br />
2391. You could not tell a man who only smoked 4 pipes a day?-<br />
That is so.<br />
2392. You could only tell those who have the "Yan" (craving)?<br />
Yes.<br />
2393. Then there is an appearance of the opium "sot" on their faces ?<br />
Yes.<br />
2394. Talking of rubber estate coolies, do the smokers work much<br />
better than the non-smokers there ?-Opium smokers put in more working<br />
days in a month because they require extra money for their opium. Nonsmokers,<br />
if they are slightly ill, do not come to work, whereas smokers<br />
even if they are a bit ill, come to work in order to. earn mo,e money for their<br />
opium.<br />
2395. Do you think you would get enough labour if you refused to<br />
engage a single opium smoker in the factories and on the rubber estate?<br />
No. 20 per cent of my coolies are smokers; if I dismissed all the smokers<br />
I should not be able to replace them easily, but if the Government want<br />
to restrict opium smoking, these people will give up the habit and then<br />
I will be able to get enough.<br />
2396. What measures do you. propose that the Government should<br />
take in order to stop the smoking of opium?-The best way is for Government<br />
themselves to sell the challdu and not to give licences for retail shops<br />
and smoking shops as at present.<br />
2397. Those are the preliminary measures; any other measures?<br />
The second thing would be to register alI the smokers.
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