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Show FAT CONTRACT IS LET TO CHINESE Washington. July 2Q. The war de-partmenl de-partmenl baa just let a good fat contract con-tract to a Chinese firm for construction construc-tion of part of the army hospital at Fort Shafter, Hawaiian islands. This Is the first time on record that the United Slates government let such a contract to a foreign firm, especially lo Chinese, who are prohibited from competition with American labor In tbU country by the Chinese exclusion law In one case the army quartermaster quarter-master at the presidio at San Francisco Fran-cisco did employ a number of foreigners foreign-ers on certain construction work there which led to a fruitless protest from the labor element in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. j |