Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on Important Contract Labour, 1908Your Committee has had evidence to show that importations of skilled labour at a lower wage than that usually paid in this country have taken place, and they regard this as in¿icting hardship upon the people in the country, and often upon those imported.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.