Tag: Southampton

Titanic: The Forgotten Eight Chinese Passengers! (14.12.2020)

To this end, Donald Steamship Company bought these Chinese people a third-class group ticket – numbered 1601 – price £56, 9 shillings and 11 pence. The ‘Chinese’ names registered on this collective ticket are written in phonetic English and read:

1) Fang Lang

2) Choong Foo

3) Ali Lam

4) Ling Hee

5) Chang Chip

6) Lee Bing

7) Lee Ling

8) Len Lam

Amongst them the youngest was 24 years old whilst the oldest was 37 years old. As dispatch workers (who were sent anywhere at anytime with no Union support or protection) – these Chinese men were made to work more than 12 hours a day in terrible conditions – whilst receiving only one-fifth the pay of that earned by White (Umionised) workers doing exactly the same job!

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Sutton Guardian News Article: Local NHS Midwife – Gee Wyles – Awarded ‘999’ Cruise for Covid-19 Service! (15.7.2021)

The Sutton Gaudian Journalist has took my name off the finished article (as I am the ‘original author’) replacing it with her own – and has shortened the printed version, etc. This type of ‘dishonesty’ is common within the bourgeois press and something we genuine writers have to live with until a firmer (legal) control of the UK media becomes a reality. As I suspected something like this would happen – I published my ‘original’ article on this blog for all to see on the day that I submitted it for consideration to the local press. This is the equivalent of ‘posting it to myself’ to prove ‘Copyright’. Still, I am prepared to take this indignity for the story of Gee’s success (the ‘true’ subject of this article) to made known to a greater audience. Like ALL NHS Staff – she deserves far more publicity for the risks she takes and the lives she saves!

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