SHAFT 98
Summit
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 1925
SHAPE 97
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BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.
RECORD OF SERVICE IN CHINA.
MODEL FACTORY CONDITIONS IN CHINA.
The British-American Tobacco. Co. Ltil., are circulating a vary hand somely produced Record of its service in China, which is well worth reading by all who are interested in industrial developments in China. The -cover bears the following quotation from Confucius: "For Good return Good; for Evil, Justice."
The introduction states that the pamphlet is "not a statement of what China owes to the company, but of what the company feels that it owes to China and what steps it has taken to repay its obligations. It is a statement not of business adventures and prosts, but of the efforts to make business humane, to make an industrial · and commercial ens ?
terprise a part of and an asset to the community and the country There have been moments when the Chinese people have misunderstood the British-American Company, Ltd, and have shown them selves unfriendly to it. There have been moments when competitors have forgot ten the ethics of trade and have defamed this company unjustly. But over a long period of years these instances have been
rare and of the shortest duration. The Chinese people have. the whale, re garded the British-American Tobacco Company, Ltd. as a friend of their coun- try, as a business organisation which is
constantly creating, constantly building up, and which has never once in its whole career committed destructive character."
Among the British-American Tobacco Company, Ltd, workers are: Experts in experts in the scientiae manufacture of the scientific handling of leat tobacco;
tobacco; engineers, civil and mechanical, electricians, Mechanics High-class skill. ed operatora of many kinds of automatic And semi-automatic machines. type printers, offset printers, lithographic printers, artists, office executives and accountants, salesmen, sales managers and sales executives, advertising writers; motion picture operators, transportation experts, chemists, draughtsmen.
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY.
sonal friendship and patronage can play In a large industrial enterprise per-
almost no part in the advancement of.. an employee. With 25,000 workers un- der the direction of the management of Ltd. it is impossible for the directors the British-American Tobacco Company," to be personally acquainted with all the results. They are able to discover the workers. But they are able to judge by man with initiative and character, the man who does nos simply grind at his job, but who is always improving himself, who is always learning something more general efficiency of the company. about the business and adding to the Suck
easily rise to the top. All the higher officials of the company, whether Chinese or foreign, have risen from" small posi- American Tobacco Company, Ltd. there tions to higher ones. In the British- is an opportunity for every man to learn a single act of something, to develop himself and to better his condition. From that stand- point the British-American Tobacco Com- pany, Ltd. is an industria democracy which provides equality of opportunity for every employee.
The following extracts are made from the pamphlet: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GREAT INDUSTRY.
MODEL FACTORIES.
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The factories of this company are light. well-ventilated, and always include the most modern conveniences for the workers. The British-American Tobacco Company, Ltd. has never found in any factory a scarcity of labour, because the workers know of these superior con- ditions.
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THE TIPPING NUISANCE, »
Only a few years ago it used to be considered bad form in the Straits Although the company does everything possible to restore the health of their sick for a person staying at a private house" NO CHILD LABOUR.
workers by means of a free medical ser: to "tip" the butler or the boy when vice, in their own hospitals and free at- he departed. Nor was it customary to But the British-American Tobacco Com- tention in the large public hospitals in pany, Ltd. gives the workers more than Shanghai and elsewhere, it has been a give gratuities to hotel servants of whom light and air and commodious factories. difficult problem to work out a system of it was always supposed that they were This company has always been in advance sick pay which would become automatical of the labourers' demands for social im-ly effective. The conditions of labour adequately paid by their proper em provements. Long before anyone sug-in China are peculiar and the worker is ployers. Of late years, however, the gested that children ought not to work rarely a native of the place in which
"tipping nuisance" has become quite in factories and raills, but should be in he works. For this reason and pronounced in our midat. Its introduc schools, this company took steps CO result of long experience, the company eliminate child labour from its factories, has adapted the policy of judging each because it recognized that it was not case of sickness among its workers in beneficial to China that little childen dividually. The practice is explained by should be doing work which is more examples, which are given in the suitable for grown men and women. felt that children should be at school and
It pamphlet..
at play.
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tion was one of the numerous evils of the first rubber boca, which brought so many tourists and travellers flush of
The British-American Tobacco Com-) pany, Ltd. alone employs 23,000 Chinese! in the cigarette manufacturing industry, thus providing work and a livelihood for a large body of men and women who otherwise might have been of that, gur- plus population which is such a serious problem in the ever-populated districts of central and north China. The British-American Tobacco Company, Ltd. Factories are not all situated in Shang- hai, but are scattered about the country, providing work to Chinese everywhere. Two of the factories are situated at Pooting, opposite Shanghai, in Kiangsu Province; one is in Shanghai; two are in Hankow, in Hupeh Province; one in Tientsin (Chilli); one at Mukden (Feng- tien) and one at Taingtao (Shantung). In addition to these, printing works have been established at Pootung, Shanghai, Tientsin and Tsingtao. At Pootung an engineering department and machine shop has also been established and a new tin-foil factory has now been completed. THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY
money, to these shores, and unfortunate- ly, as far as the hotels are concerned, The opening of these factories was an
EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN: experiment on the part of the company. Plans were then devised to eliminate
it seems to have come to stay; though The company is also interested in the When the British-American Tobacco child labour from the factories. Under children of its employees. It wants these there is no reason why it should not be Company, Ltd. began to manufacture the existing standard of living in China children to have opportunities which stamped out in private houses if hosts cigarettes in this country, labour in it is often necessary that all the members their parents lacked. In the old-fashion- and hostesses will only let it be known China had not yet been industrialized. of a large family should bring in some ed industries the child followed in the that they object to their servants, al Labour was in the condition known in wages. Parents therefore took their chil- footsteps of the parent. The son of a history as the Domestic System. Masa dren to the factories, although it must coolie most often remained a coolic. ready overpaid in most instances, being production and the large scale factory have made them sad to do so. When The son of a day labourer could only dollar may not hurt the visitor, it pro further fed by their guests: An odd and mill were unknown. The workers they were told that the factory did not hope to be a day labourer. The British-bably doesn't but if anybody has small produced their goods in little shop's, like to employ children under 14 years of American Tobacco Company, Ltd., how cash to spare in these times he had much usually behind the counter where the age, they would say that their children ever, has established schools at Pootung, better keep it for Poppy Day than bestow goods were sold. One or two workers were older than that. The British- Hankow, Ershihlipu (Shantung), Amoy; it upon the domestic tyrants who mock- were employed by the seller of the goods, American Tobacco Company, Ltd. had Canton and other places for generalingly call themselves our and they worked long hours, under an way of learning the true age of the education and every year it contributes and refuse to render our lives miserable insanitary conditions, for small wages. child, is there is no governmental regis- towards the support of mary schools for a cent less than thirty dollara a Children were employed as apprentices tration of births in this country. The throughout China. A list of such in month, the very smallest sum for, which to learn the business. This system was management Was therefore forced to stitutions, is given. not confined to China Until the first study the size of the child as an in- SOMETHING FOR THE FUTURE. with say experience in these days.
it appears possible to obtain & quarter of the 19th century it was dication of its age. This method may universal.
not have been altogether successful; as Whether a man is a day labourer ar The introduction of the machinery and size is not a scientific test of age, but it the factory in Europe improved the con-has kept many children at play who piness, his opportunity for improvement a taipan, his peace of mind, his hap dition of labour everywhere. But the might have been at work.
depends in a large measure upon whether factory, employing hundreds of labourers
he is living from hand to mouth, with and utilizing a huge lavestment of
BETTER WAGES.
nothing for a rainy day" and an extra- capital, gave rise to new and difficult The question of wages in this country ordinary expenditure, or whether he has problems. Shareholders of merchandiz-is dificult to determine with scientific a little aum put away in a bank. There ing companies were at first reticent to exactness because of the changing value are moments in the life of every man risk their capital on aa experiment along of the currency. The employer of labour when he thinks of the possibility of his also applies to dealers and sub-dealers; or foreign. The profit sharing or bonus these lines in China. The British has to determine wages in relation to death What will become of his wife in fact, to all persons, except those who American Tobacco Company, Ltd., how the price for which he can sell his com- and children 7 Who will pay the funeral participate in the benefits of the Savings rtant it was to China to bring modern large part of the earnings of any enter- of his son? If a man has nothing put company, and have helped in the courses ever, from the beginning realized how immodity. Wages, which consume such a expenses? Who will see to the education Fund, who have any connection with the industry to the country. It was willing prise, must have a definite "relationship aside he worries about his family affairs of the year to make a profit on the bus- to take the risk, because it had courage with its income. The British-American and his life becomes sad and burder-ness of the company. Just before Chinese and conviction and because it wanted Tobacco Company, Ltd. has always some.. If, on the other hand, he has a New Year this bonus is distributed, to to please its customers, the Chinese adhered to the policy of a liberal wage people, by putting back into the country a large share of the money used in the business. For the greatest participators in the earnings of a company are not the shareholders or the managers, who nuin- ber few, but the labourers and producers of raw materials, who number: many The employment of 26,000 Chinese men and women in this business and the par- chase of tobacco and other supplies locally, means that the largest part of the earnings in China of the British American Tobacco Company, Ltd. returns to the Chinese people.
scale and has always paid its workers more than they could get elsewhere in the same industry for the same type of work. But even this has not always been alto gether sufficient because as an exceptional rise in the price of rice might make even larger wage less valuable in the pur- chase of this principal article of food.. The company has therefore adopted the rule that when the price of rice reaches more than 880.00 per picul an allowance
"' servants
boy
That the evil is spreading throughout
give the waiters at Monte Carlo points. servants in Colombo are sharks who could the East is only too clear. The hotel
and that is saying a very great deal.→ Straits Echo.
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reserve, he is happier and more ready bring happiness to many a home on the to advance himself.
annual settlement day. This bonus, of course, depends entirely upon the profity of the company. When there is no proff there can be no profit-sharing, but since the introduction of this system there has always been some profit, and the com- pany's employees and associates have benefited from it,
In 1992 the British-American Tobacco Company, Ltd. recognized this fact and voluntarily established a Savings Fund for its Chinese factory workers, The re- effect: gulations governing this fund are, in
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LABOUR
It might be thought, by those who are the labourer, but is carried by the date of his employment, the company the country. It can only do this because
CARE OF THE EMPLOYÉE.
After October 1st, 1922, the company will during a period of five years võlun- tarily set aside at the end of each month company like the British-American To It is often suggested that a foreign out of its own funds an amount equal bacco Company, Ltd. exists.only to take is made to cover the difference between to 5 per cent of the earnings of each money out of China. How else is such this arbitrarily fixed price and the actual employee during that month. market price. The retail price of rice
an assumption! The company returns to At the end of five years from October China & large share of its earnings in the in September, 1925, was 813.00 in Shang- 1st, 1922, or, in the case of an employee purchase of native, raw materiale, in cost of the rice bowl is not thrown on date, at the end of five years from the to China much more than it takes out of not so well-informed, that most of the company. labourers employed by the British-Ameri-
will, provided the employee is still in it is a large company which can save on can Tobacco Company, Ltd. consist of
the service of the company, double the costs and can utilize the collective labour workers who merely look after machines. The British-American Tobacco Com-event of disability or death the company one having any relations with this com- amount already contributed. In the of large number of individuals. Every- This is quite incorrect. The Chinese pans, Ltd has been in the vanguard of doubles the amount standing to the credit peny in come way enjoys a share of its workers of the British-American Tobacco other employers in China in this respect of the employee. Company, Ltd. are men and women who At each of its factories it maintains a
profita, if there are any. have to be capable of performing tasks well-equipped hospital for the free treat if the worker dies on is disabled; the In a word, at the end of five years, or
PAMPHLET WORTH READING.: requiring considerable skill. Some of ment of the employees. Medicines and company doubles ita contribution. This this work is of such a nature as to re- medical attention are provided, free of Savings Fund has done much to improve similar character in this pamphlet, which There is much more information of a quire intensive training abroad, and in charge. As soon as this respect the British-American Tobacco of anything, he or she is examined by labourers, as it has taken out of the "and we have pleasure in commending iti worker complains the moral and mental qualities of the is printed both in English and Chinese, Company, Ltd. really becomes an educa competent physician and the proper class of those who are working for their perusal to all who are interested in in- tional institution. For the purposes of treatment is immediately given. making this point clear, a list of the
daily bread. They have become men and dustrial conditions in China. We hope it The company is now planning to erect women with something to fall back on, will be studied especially by the Tabour kinds of employees working for this modern hospital at Pootung for the with some financial protection against Members of the British Parliament who company has been prepared, from which welfare of the families of its workers, the future. it will be seen how the company has that is, for the wives and children who
seem to have got it into their heade that taken unskilled workers, mostly from the are not employed by the company. In.
British pioneers have introduced into farms and villages, and has developed Hankow and Tientsin free bathing ac
For those who are not factory workers system as it was known in England haft China the worst features of the factory them into highly trained men, many of commodations are provided. In Mukden the company has a system by which it a century and more ago. If this pam whom eventually go into business for and Tientsin rest-houses have been erect divides a part of its profits at the end phlet does not serve to dispel that errone themselves in their respective specialities ed where the workers can be warm and of each year with such employees, Chinese ous impression we do not know what and make outstanding succeses.
"comfortable should they arrive at the
will
BONUSES.
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