A worker from the Chinese Newcomers Service Center testified before the California Fair Employment Practice Commission in 1970 that because of their lack of job opportunities, many recent immigrants from Hong Kong turned to menial jobs just to survive even though they had held professional and semiprofessional positions before.
一位中國新僑服務中心的工作人員一九七○年時在加州公平就業執行委員會作證說：「因為缺乏機會，許多來自香港的新移民雖擁有專業或半專業的能力，卻不得不去做些低下的工作。