ABSTRACT
The movement of Chinese coolies under the credit-ticket system into British Malaysia gave rise to a contract system of labour sanctioned by law. But neither in Canada nor in Australasia was the law cognizant of such a labour system as involved in the Chinese immigration that commenced during the fifties of last century. The brief discussion of the credit-ticket emigration to California and of the labour system that it there involved will serve to supplement the available information on the "Chinese problem" in British Columbia and Australasia. The first attack by the Australian democrats on Chinese immigration formed part of a general campaign against indentured labour systems as leading "to the depreciation of labour as a sure result." In New Zealand the anti-Chinese movement had a development similar to that in the Australian States, though of course it had not the same large influence on political history as the latter, which acquired a Federal significance.
