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CHILD LABOUR IN CHINA.
APPALLING CONDITIONS.
[BY A CORILESPONDENT OF THE “MANCHESTER
Encouraging action has recently been taken by the Chinese Chamber of Com- meros in Shanghai in the endeavour to improve industrial conditions-With-a view to the promotion of higher standards in industry and the welfare. 'af "the inbourers, the Chamber has approved the Lollowing regulations: (1) No employ mens of children under 18 years of age; '(9) one day's fast in soven;"{3} the safe" guarding of the health of the workers by dimiting working hours, improvement of sanitary conditions, installation of safety devices for machinery. The Chamber arges all firms and factories tó Edo their utmoed, to carry out these regula
tious as soon as possible
How Boosssary much improvements are is evident from the following extracts from a latter reesived from a prominent Amexican missionary investigator" who has been studying conditions:-
There are at least fifty cotton mills around Shanghai and more are going up. Thousands of children down to the age of eight or vins are employed. Little girls eight or nine years of age, were standing between double rows of whizzing unguarded machinery, steadily but wearily: feeding the machines. One mite, perhaps eight years of age, was curled in an exhausted heap on the cement floor sound. asleep. Over in a corner, under a pile of waste, a tiny baby was spending the night, while his mother worked at a machine near by.
In-one small
hospital there were one day this winter three children under ten years old. The arm of one had been caught in an e fenced machine and was all bat. torm off. The leg of another was-smashed front hip to ankle by the tenth of a machine. The third little girl, had been caught by the hair in her machine and her scalp torn off. Not one of these accidrats would have happened had the machines beep fitted with safety devices. Most of the accidents happen in the night shifts, between two and four in the morning. Suci are the terrible conditions in Chinese industry."
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At Chefoo, whore 17,000 women engaged in the hair-net industry, the wago is six centa for a ten-hour day. In tho forty pongee silk factories in the same city 20,000 men and boys work a 13-hour day for the same amount. Yes in Chefoo conditions are better than in many other areas, for there are a number of Chinese Christian employers who close their factories on Sundays, while the rest are open for a seven-day werk. As a result; of the recent visit of Dr. Sherwood Eddy the Cheloo Chamber of Commercha taken fimilar steps to those recommended at Shanghai, the standard being that supported by the new National Christian Council of China ne a minimum. This has not prevented. however, three recent wage strikes, which were severely crushed by the police.
The worst evils of the match-making. industry are rife in Tientsin, where even in the best factories boys were found Working 15 hours a day for a seven-day week, their pay running from six to ten cents. The investigator reports
"Eighty of these little workers must got to the hospital each day to be treated. The fumes from the cheap phosphorus and sulphur oftar affect their eyes and lungs. Much of this would be avoided by: asing better chemicalà, but the profits of the owners would not be so large,
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"We found 15,000 boys in the weaving factories working righteen hours a day? from 5 am to 11 pm, the majority, receiving no pay whatever but their food. In the rug factories the boys work sizteen hours a day, from 5.30 am to 10 pm. seven days a week. During the threeWO years of apprenticeship they receive only their food and lodging. Many skilled workers are paid only four dollars a month.
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"Ugreat is growing in the midst of this awful poverty. The workers in the south and contral regions and along the rail. ways are learning effectively to strike better working conditions Many employs ers are trying to keep them contented with their miserable lot. But God forbid that they should accept it."
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"A God of Force, a punishing, vonge ance taking. God," the document goes on, so much worshipped that "has been Europe to-day presents a far mord fertile field for war than even in 1914 There are joyless victors, haunted by debt; poverty and unemployment; there are despairing vanquished, nursing the desire for revenge that will only perpetuato The cow, Frontiers are often, the strife. causes of inflammation and Yesentanont." Let everyone urge the immediate calling together of the nations in confer ence, so that the grave questions at issue may be settled, not in the atmosphere of national rivalry, but in that of the unity of mankind as children of one Father.
According to reports received by secret. agents, Russian Crown jewel, valued ati £800,000 were placed in the coffin of James Jones, a sailor in the United States navy, which was being shipped from Vladivostock to New York. An order bas been issued to exhorts the boily to text the truth of the rumour.
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