Show PROPOSE TO PAY MERE MERt PITTANCE I Canal Contractors Expect to Get Bet Coolie Labor at Less Than 1 a Day Washington Aug 12 Care will be ta taken taken taken ken by b the United States government to prevent contractors co tractors from doing injustice to the Chinese Chinse laborers employed for work on the Panama canal The specifications advertising a for proposals to supply 2600 2500 Chinese to the tho canal commission will stipulate elate that the secretary se of war shall have havethe havethe havethe the privilege of passing on contracts which labor agents make with Chinese who are to be sent to the isthmus This provision will make it possible for See Sec Secretary S rotary Taft to prevent discrimination against the coolies by b unscrupulous con contractors contractors contractors tractors Under this arrangement the United States government will know ex cx exactly exactly what the Chinese are paid by the labor agents and the Chinese government nih be able To o afford its Us subjects pro protection protection on the isthmus because of the ease with which this government will beable to regulate the conditions between the la Ia laborers laborers borers and the agents Some labor agents believe that with the many thany restrictions the canal commission proposes placing on contractors it will not be possible to supply the at less than 1 a day da Other agents are of the opinion that the coolies can be supplied for 50 or 01 CO 60 cents a day with a fair mar margin margin margin gin of profit to the contractors |