chinese immigrants between 1901 and 1904 by justin rodrigues

Justin Rodrigues

9.5/9.6 Social Studies

• Chinese's people were one of the first non-white immigrants of Australia.

•When the convicts started to fade away many rich cattle raisers went to Asia.

•They brought back many Chinese people.

•The worked for cattle raisers and gold miners.

•Many of the Chinese people were employed as gold diggers.

•Their employers payed them next to nothing for working in poor conditions.

•In Australia in 1901 the percent of Chinese population was 0.8%

•That was roughly 29, 907 people.

•Many Chinese people were in labouring jobs.

•Most worked in Gold mining.

•They had poor conditions in the mining fields.

•Many other people started to treat them badly

•There were constant physical attacks on them.

•The main reason was their culture and religion.

•Many Chinese workers were exploited because of cheap labour.

•This was also useful as Europeans had to accept low wages.

•There was an incident when European workers when on strike the owners hired Chinese men.

•The workers on strike attacked the Chinese men who replaced them.

•The Chinese workers were constantly under attack from European workers as they took their jobs as they worked for very little.

•They was constant physical abuse by the Europeans

•On the other side the Big bosses of the company were constantly looking for ways to get the Chinese to work for next to nothing.

•This caries on till today.

•Chinese workers also worked in factories.

•The factories they worked in could be as hot as 40 degree Celsius.

•The owners treated them like slaves.

•The usual working times was 8am to 6pm and overtime was not paid for.

•There was a law passed called the Factories and Shop act.

•Even though this act was the owners still ignored it.

•They treated them as they did before.

•The Chinese workers could not complain as they would be sacked if they did.

•Chinese children sometimes worked even though school was compulsory.

•They worked in factories, textile mills and in boot trade.

•Young children were hired because they could get into and clean the small holes in between machines.

•Children were paid 2 cents per hour which was half the average woman’s pay.

•Working in Australia seemed rigorous until The Conciliation and Arbitration court was formed in 1904.

•They acted as a referee to decide an agreement between employers and trade unions.

•The Workers Compensation Act in 1912 was a plan to provide payments to employees who suffered work-related accident or diseases.

•This is the story of Chinese immigrants of Australia between 1901 and 1914