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CHAN PUI SHING, Manager, NAN YANG TOBACCO Factory.
We have two factories, (1) 199 Wan Tsai Road, (2) Caroline Road, So K We employ about 244 female children, but no male children, The ag are as follows:-
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They work from 8 to 9 hours a day. From 7-12 and 1-4 or 5 o'clo From 20 to 30 cents a day is the average pay of both a child and an adu The children are employed in packing. Every 15th day and 30th is holiday. Apart from applying for holidays they work for 7 days a week Children work the same hours as adults. Overtime can be worked from 7-9 p.m. From 4-8 cents is the overtime pay. There is plenty of labour. Wage whet are kept and signed by the girls, deductions are recorded, and the wage sheets open to inspection. There is a waiting list of over a hundred. We will not take children under 10 years of age.
CHENG HING Yin-Manager oF KAM HING KNITTING FACTORY. We employ 110 girls and 48 boys, and 900 adults. The ages are as follows
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TUNG A KNITTING FACTORY, G SHANGHAI STREET, Mong Kok Tsei
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 u 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 would like to do night work. No one is forced to do night work.
LE MAN HING KWOK, SAIKUNG STREET, YAUMATI, Kareting FACTORY FOR HOSIERY. SIC YAM WING: ASSISTast 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 boxe, 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.
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The children work from 6.45 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and 12 noon to 6.15 p.." and on night work from 6.45 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. They bave every other Sunda
Children and adults work the same hours. Girls do light work. Girls enl make about 40 cents a day if over 16, and under 16 about 20 cents.
There is no night work on Wednesday or Sunday, or from 4th to 7th moon. twice monthly. Children are paid direct.
Wages are paid Women have their midday meals in the factory.
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 tu. 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.
Evidence taken at Meeting on 4th May, 1921.
CHAN KWOK WA YEUNG OR THE CHINESE FOREIGN KNITTING FACTORY AT 484. Canton Road, Yaumati, CHEUNG TAI MING: SECRETARY.
We employ about two hundred hands with about half a dozen children. They come with their mothers and do odd jobs. They are paid by the job and work six days a week. They work for eleven and a half hours a day. There is no night work or work on Sunday. Our work would not be hindered if we dil not employ children.
CHAN PAR PANG, Kowloon Dock, Sub-contrACTOR FOR SHIPBUILDING,
I employ from 100 to 300 meo, depending on the amount of work. I employ from 50 to 60 women coolies--I employ boys for chipping, sometimes I employ from 40 to 50 boys, the youngest of whom are about eleven years, and the rest eleven years and upwards. They work from 7-12 and 1-5, and the wages are from 30 to 40 cents a day. Double overtime is paid for night work and Sunday work. The night shift lasts for 12 hours and wages are paid at double rates. Boys are also employed at painting, carpentering, boiler-making, and as copper: smiths. There are 33 under 16 and 147 over 16 working as copper-smiths. have no apprentices.