It Is a very brief statement and I want to read a part of It. He speaks of certain indentured contracts with penal provisions: I wish merely to state the opinion of a former Inspector general of agriculture in IndoChina. who in 1927 visited the Dutch East Indies and made a report on labor conditions there. This is a statement by the employers delegate: He examined the conditions on the east coast of Sumatra and concluded his report with the following statement: "The system of contract labor and in particular the system of pe.sanction for desertion and similar offenses. while applied with grcz.. moderation. has nevertheless been criticized in Holland. It has been stated that it Is a kind of permanent slavery." He is talking about indentured contacts with penal sanction. It has been said that it is a kind of permanent slavery.
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