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TUNG A KNITTING Factory, 6 SHANGHAI STREET, MONG KOK TSUI.
KO CHUNG TONG: MANAGER,
We employ 220 persons: About 35 males, 190 women, and 12 girls, all over 12 years, make up that total. We employ no boys. They work from 6.30-12 and 1-6. We do night work four or five times a week. We sometimes work on Sundays. The women and children are paid by the piece. Women get about 40 cents a day. It would not affect our work if we had no children; they come with their mothers and beg for work. We pay half overtime for night work to persons paid by the day. I think 80 p.c. would like to work on Sunday. About 50 p.e. would like to do night work. No one is forced to do night work.
LI MAN HING Kwok, SAIKUNG STREET, YAUMATI, KNITTING FACTORY FOR HOSIERY. SIU YAM WING: ASSISTANT MANAGER.
We employ about 300 persons-51 men, 280 women, and 27 children of whom none are under 13 years of age. They work from 6-12 and 1-7. There is no Sunday work and no night work. The girls make cardboard boxes, do knitting and other light work. All hands work the same hours. We pay by the piece and by the day. The pay is from 15 cents per day upwards. The children get from 15 cents to 30 cents a day. The children are brought by the mothers. It would not affect us if there were no children working.
SAN SHING LUNG GINGER FACTORY, 255 RECLAMATION STREET,
MONGKOK. LI SHAI WING: MANAGER.
We employ 32 men and 60 women. We have no girls under 18 or 19 years of age. The hours are from 6-12 and 1-6. There is very seldom any night work except at Christmas and such times, when. they work from 7-11 p.m. The pay of a woman is about $5.40 a month without food, and a man from $6 to $10 a month besides his food.