Most were employed as contract laborers on the plantations.
Chinese people took work as contract laborers in the agricultural and fishing industries.
"If it's so safe, why do you use contract laborers and not your own people?"
I thought you might want to see for yourself that our contract laborers work under completely safe conditions.
My niece told me he used to be a contract laborer.
They hadn't recognized him, but figured he must be some contract laborer for that weekend.
Onplanet, he might lie about his age, and maybe get a job as a contract laborer on somebody else's farm.
The children of these contract laborers who were born in the island nation are called "tongas."
It would push farmers still farther down the road to becoming nothing but contract laborers.
"The remaining people can hire on as contract laborers, but they will have to perform or no one will need their services," he said.