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The root cause of anti-Chinese #10 feeling Excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1943 by the Co-operative Reasons for the Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a Canadian socialist Head Tax political party formed in Saskatchewan. Comments in brackets are not part of the original document. They have been added to assist the reader with difficult words. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), 1943 The root cause of anti-Oriental feeling has always been economic. Back in 1858, when a gold strike in the Fraser River brought the first Chi- nese miners to British Columbia, they were welcomed. When the boom collapsed a few years later and they went into road-building, store- keeping, trading and packing, farming, gardening and domestic ser- vice [working as servants], prejudice mounted against them. The reason was that their lower living standards enabled them to undercut white workers. But up through the years this root cause was always skilfully obscured by those who exploited [used for personal gain] labor. By diverting economic discontent into racial channels, employers and politicians man- aged to keep all labor standards down. The workers did not see the real enemy [owners and managers were the real problem, not competition from immigrant labour]. Grace MacInnis and Angus MacInnis, Oriental Canadians, Outcasts or Citizens? (Vancouver : Federationist Publishing Co., 1943), p. 7| Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung collection. EX-4.2-2 http://chung.library.ubc.ca/collection/details/8877 (Accessed October 11, 2010). the critical thinking consortium.

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