| He had quite a train of coolies with him, carrying himself and his baggage through the dense forests. |
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| I wanted to correct the impression that Indians there were only coolies and ayahs. |
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| For example, when in 1885 Hong Kong workers refused to unload a French warship, their action spread to coolies, boatmen, and rickshaw pullers. |
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| With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet. |
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| Many of the rickshaw pullers and coolies are proud that their children are going to school, in spite of being so poor. |
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| At the time of the creation of the railway, workers were needed and Chinese coolies were recruited from China. |
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| The people are poor, and work in the city of Mymensingh as coolies, rickshaw pullers and day labourers. |
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| The camp had to supply so many men a day to work as white coolies on enlarging Kai Tak Airport. |
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| But the fourth class, which was just the ordinary working class, had four coolies. |
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| The French contingents of the advance guard were made up of 2,000 men and 200 coolies, and the English had an equivalent force. |
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| Shortly afterwards, the Indian identured laborers or coolies arrive by thousands to work on contract in the sugar cane plantations. |
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| Beriberi commonly afflicts coolies on worksites or in the plantations and again prisoners, all these groups being fed by a central kitchen using industrially polished rice. |
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| Chinese coolies built California's tracks, levees and dams without the right to vote or testify in court, to marry whom they chose or to own property. |
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| This Ukiyo-e represents a charging horses and coolies outside a resthouse. |
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| Yet there was always the idea that Chinese coolies and Japanese fishermen would continue to work at that level and not have families accompanying them. |
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| I had coolies put large chocks in front of the wheels with instructions to pul1 on the ropes to move the chocks immediately I raised my right hand. |
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| They forced Chinese coolies and Allied war prisoners to do that infernal work in inhuman conditions ignoring the basic human rights and the Geneva Convention rules. |
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| Dozens of Chinese sugar traders went bankrupt which led to massive unemployment, which in turn led to gangs of unemployed coolies. |
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| Hollister boarded the coastal sidewheeler Orizaba for San Francisco, where the manpower pool was swarming with coolies fresh from China. |
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| Full provision is made by these Acts for the efficient inspection of tea gardens and for the lodgment of complaints by coolies in districts where they are in operation. |
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