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| − | Q. 54 Mr. Colquohn, in some respects, is perhaps a bit of a bluffer, is he?
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| − | Q. 55 He has been pretty slow on pay, hasn't he?
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| − | Q. 56 How has he been on the pay to you?
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| − | A. Well, of course he has kept me going, that is all.
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| − | Q. 57 Have you ever had a square pay day?
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| − | A. Not a regular pay, no.
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| − | Q. 58 Anybody else, to your knowledge?
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| − | Q. 59 If I told you that those four white men, if I told you they haven't got a cent yet?
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| − | Q. 60 These Chinese boys say they haven't been paid?
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| − | A. Not entirely.
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| − | Q. 61 Outside of what they have received for food?
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| − | Q. 62 What would you contribute to the shortage of food to? Slow pay?
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| − | A. It might be one reason.
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| − | Q. 63 And if these Chinese people in Vancouver supplying the food, if they weren't getting paid, they couldn't be expected to keep on sending?
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| − | Q. 64 With the history we have here, it wouldn't be a bit surprising if that was so, would it?
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| − | A. It was very likely what happened, all right.
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| − | Q. 65 Knowing what you know, you know perfectly well that men working in the woods do not intend to shorten themselves on food?
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| − | A. You can't do it.
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| − | Q. 66 What do you contribute the shortage of food to?
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| − | A. I cannot see any particular reason right really for the
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