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Wages $30.00 per month, free food and quarters on premises. Free laundry, shaving and hair-cutting. Employed by Wing On Company for fifteen years. Came from Chung Shan, Kwangtung Province, educated at Chung Shan, can read and write Chinese and a little English. Not married. Sends no remittance home. Spends nearly all income on clothes and entertaining friends; dresses in European fashion.
Hours of work: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. with half an hour off for lunch 11.45 a.m.- 12.15 p.m.; 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays. Holidays when store is closed-on Chinese festivals and public holidays.
Three meals a day but morning meal is only congee. If ill, leave without pay. Company provides doctor, and maintenance expenses in hospital; pays himself for medicine dispensed.
Not member of any union.
(13) FUNG SHU FING, male, 24, of Chekiang Province, employed in hand press sub-department, Banknote Department, Chung Hwa Book Company, Pak Tai Street, Mataukok, Kowloon.
Employed by Chung Hwa Book Company in Shanghai, about nine years in photographic department. After hostilities Shanghai works closed, came to Hong Kong October, 1938, on written contract, time indefinite, entitling him to two months' wages and twenty dollars fare to Shanghai in event of determination of
contract.
Wages: $15.00 per month, free food ($7.50 rice money), free lodging and light in quarters provided by company, Sung Wong Toi Road, free medical treat- ment at factory by Chinese doctor qualified in Hong Kong University. If seriously ill sent to Government hospital, employers paying fifty cents per day. Full wages continue during illness for two months, thereafter half wages. If permanently unfit will be sent back to Shanghai. Earns also bonus on production.
Hours: 7.30 a.m.-12 noon, 1 p.n.-5.30 p.m. Works occasionally on Sundays. Nine men to one press, standard day's work nine hundred sheets; bonus one cent per sheet additional divided between the nine men; for sheet spoiled fined five cents divided likewise. Can print seventeen hundred sheets per day with certain number spoiled. Share of bonus last month $11.26.
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Not married. Expenses chiefly on clothing; remits $10 Hong Kong Shanghai monthly. Can read and write Chinese and speak and write
a little English. Educated at Provincial Government School at Chekiang as day boy, fees about $40 per half year. In Shanghai earned about $70 (Shanghai) before the Member of the Chung Hwa Branch of the Hong Kong Printers Union. Was not a member of any union in Shanghai.
war.
(14) LAM SANG, male, aged 34, joiner, Taikoo Dockyard:
Employed there for last nine years. Married, one son four years, residing 61 Main Street, Saiwanho, 1st floor. Principal tenant of floor, rent $14.50 (formerly $11.00), retains for self one cubicle and sitting room, has two subtenants at four dollars each. Born San Wui, Kwangtung Province. Came to Hong Kong, aged 16, with a clansman as was poor in country. Apprentice for three years in furniture shop, Wanchai, Hong Kong, no pay, free board and lodging; then nine dollars per month with free lodging but not free food. After two months left shop to look for edd jobs as pay was too low. After several veurs obtained work at Taikoo, at first under contractor; three years ago joined permanent staff. Time work. $1.26 a day-both under contractor and directly employed.
Hours: 7 a.m.-12 noon, 1 p.m.-5 p.tn. Sunday werk-time and half; over- time-time and half.
If ill, leave but no pay.
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