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LABOUR PROBLEM IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Effects of the Chinese Exclusion
!. Act
Tho seureity of skilled native or Chinusa laber in the building and iran trades in Ma. nila is being felt more and more every day by employers (nys this Manila Times), and the lack of this class of artisans will become a more acute problem ac sie goes on and the demand for skilled workers increases.
wage.
It cannot be said that the Chiun has experienced a rise in the cast of his living corresponding to the large inexense in his wages. It is a knowledge of the fact that their employers are prohibited from filling their places by fresh imported Jabor' that inspires them to maka repented demands for higher wages. The scarcity of skilled Filipino workmen in the engineering trade alas preserves to them the monopoly in this class of labor. The majority of the Filipino engineers and iron workers are natives of Cavite, and are
At present the demand is supplied by employed in the navy yard and ship yard limited number of Chinamen, who have there. They can live in Carito consider- things their own way, and are in such a position, owing to the great lack of native ably cheaper than in Manila, and for that mechanics, flat they can demort what reason could not be induced to come to Manila for probably a fifty per cent, in- that wages they like. They know
crease on the scale of wages paid in Cavite. their places annot be filled by fresh
The question confronting the engineor importations of skilled labor because of the
employers is another phase of the labor application of the Chinese Exclusion law problem, which threatens to become more there ishads, and the result is that they serious as the development of the country are able to make successive demands for increased way. If the rise is not forth and the demand for skilled labor
coming a strike ensues, which seriously. jeopardisea thointerests of employers, who have made contracts for the work in hand. 'Those strikes at becoming more frequent.";
and constitut શ્ન serious monaco
'to
employers who are helpluss under present conditions.
increases.
Electric Power,
At the Construction Works of Messra.
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Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Limited, of Barrow, the electric power installation in the shipbuilding pardes is 1000 horse-power; Withfo the past three months strikes whereas in the engineering and gun-mount have become more numerous. In the earlying department, the plant in of 2000 horse- part of June the ship carpenters stopped power, the current in both cases being 210 work in akoly and demanded a rise of volts, suitable alike for lighting and power. 50 cents a day. The strike lasted two in the shipbuilding yard there are 140, weeks, and the employers were compelled motors, and in the engineering department to moet the men with an incicnse of 45 112 motors nuging up to 8 horse-power, cents. This was followed by a combined for driving the various machine tools. It is, etrike of o-workers every where ju not possible to give precise figures as to Manila, and a similar increase bad to be the economy achieved by the introduction conceded; the employers having to submit, of electric power at the works, as suficient or suffer the loss which would result in time he not yet elapsed to enable complete elosing down with contracts in hand. Two dets to be gollected; and, more-over, the arm weeks ago the cuschinists in one esta (his been aloost contiguously adding to the blishment stopped work and demanded machinery in one but (anys Traction and more pay in spite of the fact that their Transmission) it is at least an interesting wages hed a shit time previously been in fact, that the coal consumption over a given creased by their employer voluntarily period of average working conditions is only some of theme saw the unjustness of their one-third, what it was for steam driving demand and vit bark to work, but the case although the number of machines in the EAST PRAYA RECLAMATION is Au instance of how the employers are later period was slightly greater. halugvictimised owing to the scarcity of skilled Tabor.
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