The CANTON GAZETTE
90
Vol. V No. 954
CANTON, CHINA, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927
廣州日報
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民國十六年五月二十一日星期六
Gov't. Takes
Active Consolidating Gains
tep To
MUNICIPAL GOV'T. Nationalists
DRAWS UP TENTA-
·TIVE FACTORY
REGULATIONS
All Workers to be Well Protect- ed; and their Rights and Interests to be Safeguarded. Special Attention to be Given to the Welfare of Child Workers
Labour regulations including a factory law have been drafted by the Department of Labour and Peasantry. The following is a list of tentative factory regulations:
1. The Government has specially prepared the factory regulations for ensuring a proper living and the safety of the laborers.
2. These regulations are to be applied both to foreign owned and Chinese owned factories under the regime of the Nationalist Govern-
ment.
3. Factory owners are not allow ed to employ boys below the age of 12 and girls below the age of 14. 4. All males below 16 and females below 18 are regarded as child workers.
5. No child workers who have not received a primary education are allowed to work in factories,
may
Chuchow Reported Captured. Advance Preceded By Heavy Firing
Shanghai. May 19.-The Nation. alists, after capturing Pukow and Wuyi as previously reported, have cousolidated their gains, and after beavy firing have driven the Northerners along the Tientsin. Pukow line toward suchow. It is also stated that the Nationalists have captured Chuchow, gate-way to
Hsuchow.
Another Version
Shanghai, May 19th. The second column of Nationalist troops have taken Chuchow and are steadily advancing northwards along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
As to the war situation in the northern section of Kiangsu, the first column of Nationalist troops crossed the Yangtsze to begin their attack on Sun Chuan-fang's troops on the night of the 17th inst.
Heavy firing continued until the morning of the 18th. It resulted in the Nationalists advancing north- wards far distant from the River.- (Wah Tez Yat Pao.)
6. Child workers may be only employed to do light work.
7. Child employed to work only six hours a day, that is, thirty six hours per week, and adult workers eight hours that is, forty-eight hours per week.
workers be Strict Prohibition
Of Counterfeit
8. Child workers are not allowed to engage in night work, that is between six p.m. and six a.m
9. On Sunday s and other holidays promulgated by Govern ment all the workers must be given
rest and besides this factories ought to grant the workers fourteen days of special vacation each year.
10. Each month one or more
days of rest must be allowed the workers and every day at meal time (Continued on Page 2)
General Chiang
Goes To Shanghai
From Nanking
General Chiang Kai-shik with some
Money, Is Order
The prohibition of the manufac- ture and circulation of counterfeit
coins is again emphasized in a noti fication of the Ministry of Finance,
Gov't. To Protect The
Interests Of Farmers And Peasants
Active Steps Are to be taken to Promote the Welfare of the Toiling Masses
At the 29th meeting of the
Provincial Executive Council of the 19th inst., the following two pro- posals were made by Mr. Chen Fu mu Commissioner of the Department of Peasantry and Labour which were
passed alter sane modifications:
A. To forbid the collection of
rentals in advance:
Suppress Bandits
Bandits
Are Being Rapidly eliminated in the Five River District. To Consolidate and Fortify the Rear, is Aim of Suppression.
in
In view of the rampancy of bandits this province, the Provincial Government has decided to send
Precarious Position
Of Hankow
Single Copy: 10Cents $2.00 A Minth $24,00 A Year
Significance Of The "Ching Tang" Move- Tension Increasing Hourly
ment Explained By Hankow, May 18.—Not only is Government Official Chiang Kai-shek's net gradually closing round Hankow, but there is Mr. Lai Lien Tells Kuomintang understood to have been a defection of troops in the city itself, and a clash is feared at any moment now.
The anti-"Red" troops have con- centrated, it is reliably reported, at the Chinese Rice-course in Hankow, and the opinion is expressed that roops for their suppression. Among open hostility between these forces other things this is to prevent and those loyal to the Hankow them from being utilized Government cannot be by reactionarise in creating delayed. [disturbances in the
of the
Policy to Me bers of the Hongkong Branch Kuomintang
In a speech delivered before the members of the Hongkong Branch of the Kuomintang, Mr. Lai Lien, General-secretary to the Chief Political Department, has emphasiz. longed the necessity and significance
1. Commencing from the date of promulgation of the Government
is found that in the West River and prehension of the Chinese civil order forbidding the collection of the South districts, the suppression population is increasing almost A free translation of the speech is, munist elements from the Party. rentals in advance, all previous of bandits has been carried on by hourly. agreements
the the Government forces stationed General Sha Tao Yin, who turn- farmers and the landlords stipula-there, while th
bandits in the ed Nationalist last year, and who ting such collection shall become East River and North districts has now daclared himself to be on
of the recent Kuomintang activities rear. It In view of the tension, the ap-in the clearing out of the Com-
made between
null and void. The rentals should
2.
cd into two instalments to be paid month after each crop. In case of
a
a year of draught when appeals are to be made to the Government by
the
for
their
in part, as follows:
"Comrades, it is a great pleasure
to me to attend this meeting and the honour to address you. The Hong- prompt the side of the anti-"Reds," has now at once. at a point only twenty miles from under the direct oppression of the kong Branch of the Kuomintang is
Teng Hsi-tseng in the South district Kweichow Troops Mobilized
Against Hankow
are 60 strong that be paid and collected according to suppression is needed the present rulings.
Annual rentals shall be divid.Following the suppression scheme, Wuchang with his troops. His army imperialists and is the vanguard in satisfactory results have been is rapidly advancing on Wuchang the struggle between ourselves and obtained by the 11th Division of and an engagement may
be expected the 4th Army Corps under General shortly.
It is for this reason imperialism. that the Hongkong Branch of the Kuomintang is more important than And the 13th Division under or peasants
unions
other branch Kuomintangs. In view General Hau Ching-tang in reduction or exemption
the five West River Districts. Mr. Hu Han Min has telegraphed of this you members should be rentals, the landlords of
It has been decided to move one to General Tang Chi-yao, of Yunnan, united all the more solidly.
"Hongkong was formerly a part shall not be permitted to collect the
regiment each from the 11th and to the effect that he ought not to
our territory. Aller rentals by citing the present rulings. the 13th Divisions to Canton where adopt the "Monroe Doctrine" within of
being They must await the decision of the they shall start the campaign to
Yunnan at present, as the unification invaded by the British Imperialists, Government after due investigations. Sam-kok-chow
of China depends upon the Kuomin- we have been and still are under (3) After the prohibition of for-proceed to the Shun-tak, Pun-yu, tang cause appealing to the whole the most cruel oppression.
Just therefore unite ourselves and ward collection and before the com-Tung-kwoon and Tseng-sing districts nation. pilation of the Protection Rules for along the East River. As to the General Yang Sen has telegraph-resist. The patriotism shown by the Peasants Unions, the landlords North River District, General Lied to the Nanking Government the Hongkong labourers in the should be forbidden to change their Fook-lum of the 5th Army Corps will that he has ordered from the Kwei recent strike has voiced a world- farmers under any pretext.
wide appreciation. undertake the work of suppression chow border a division of troops B. To abrogate the
It is reported that under the instruc- under his direction to be mobilised Contractor system:
tions of General Hsu Ching tang, the at once for Hankow. Commissioner of the Military
Farming
1. A peasant who himself does not plough but simply re-let to the
first, and
then
issued day before yesterday, reading farmers a piece of land which he the 13th Division under General LiCanton Branch Of The Department, the 38th Regiment of Reorganization Of The
"The manufacture of counterfeit
coins is strictly prohibited. Offenders.
leases from the landlords under Wu-tsze arrived here from Kong. contract and collect the rental moon on the 17th inst., and will go are to be severely punished. In the through his band is called a Farming on its expedition within a few days.
be
2. Commencing from the date of New Supply
Materials For
promulgation of the Government order abrogating the contracting
Political Council
Of Nanking, May 17-It was decided Tele-the Canton branch of the Political
Council should be reorganised.
at a Central Political Conference that
We
"Taking the opportunity I have to make & short report to you regarding the "Tsing Tang" movement in Kwangtung. In the vicinity of the East River, a certain section of the peasant corps have been seducted to the road of anti-revolution but this was suppressed in a very short time. The army of Chen Kia-yu formerly stationed along the North (Continued on Page 2)
period of reforming the money Contractor. system, the first thing to done is to put
a stop to the surreptitious manufacturing of counterfeit coins. According to law, silver for the manufacture of made between the landlords, cor-
system, all previous agreements phone Administration The following is a telegram to To Settle Up Memorial coins is not allowed to be imported
tractors and the farmers, either Owing to the shortage of funds, Central Government, which says: without official sauction obtained
Service Accounts unexpired or otherwise, shall be the Telephone Service has been in a The Central Political Council has come null and void
bad condition on account of the lack
from the Government.
Violation of the law will cause con'iscation
General Lee Tsai-sum from the
A meeting was held last
service
3. The contractors shall return of sufficient materials. Upon the decided, is connection with the re- of the good, and the punishment of the leased lands to the landlords assumption of office as Director of organisation of the Canton branch Wednesday to settle up accounts of twenty secretaries and followers and the smuggler. Besides giving in who shall lease them to the respec-lich-sha
the Administration of Mr. Chen of the Political Council, to appoint the Memorial Service for the War last year, however, Koo Yin-fan, Lee Tsai-sum, Dead held a month ago. tive farmers formerly tilling them efforts have been made
for a Wong Shiu-bung. Tai Fu-yen, A description of the at a rental of not more than what positive reform. Funds have been
Fu-mu, Kam Nai-kong, was first related, which was the cou tractors previously paid them. raised for the purchase of 1500 Chen Each farmer is, however, limited to yards Swedish Red and White Chen Hok-yuk, Chu Ka-wa, Lee followed by a report of the accounts take up 100 mows only.
exchanging wire together with 1000 Fok-lum, Lee Yen-chung, Pai Chung | for the preparations and the holding carbon pieces for the General hsi, T. V. Soong, and Mme Liao of the meeting, and the funds sub- Station, and 141 pieces of Japanese Chung-kai to be the members of the scribed before hand. red and white wire for the West committee of the Canton branch of ported that Station. In addition to
a body guard of about a hundred structions to the Customs House, to men has arrived at Shanghai from the Taxation leadquarter, and to Nanking, according to a telegram the Bureau of Public Safety, the received here to-day. Upon arrival public is hereby notified not to the Nationalist General immediately smuggle silver into the province proceeded to the Lung Hua General for the manufacture of coins." (Sd) Koo Ying-fan, Commissioner of Military Headquarters to attend a
Finance. conference of prime importance, it is learned.
Removal Of The Educational Executive Association To Nanking
Strikers' Compen-
the
It is re- about $2000 has
left over. But though
of
the
sation Fund above supply, 500 cells of the best the Political Council. Later on we been
type have also been bought from have decided to appoint also Chen it was decided before the America which are moisture-proof Chek, Lam Wan-kai, and Lee Min-holding To Raise More Money With reference to the $1,500,- and quick in transmission. The fat as additional members of the that any sum left over after the meeting, For Military Campaign
000.-to be raised by the General workers are now busily making a Chamber of Commerce towards the change with the new stuff and it is Compensation Fund for the strikers, believed that the service will be it is found that only $250,000.-greatly improved hereafter. have been collected up to the 18th.
All provincial districts are ordered Shanghai, May 16.-At a meeting by Commissioner Koo Yin-fan of held by the Central Political Council the Department of Finance to raise inst. As the allotted period of ten days The Doomsday Of
of Nanking on, May 15 it was decided within 20 days a sum between to have the Educational Executive $50,000 and a few thousand dollars
for this collection is nearly up, the
said Chamber has decided to have same extended. At the same time,
Wu Pui-feil
committee."
meeting should be dedicated to the comforts of the soldiers. This New Appointments $2000 was considered too small to be sent to the front. According to In The Municipal
the proposal passed at the 2nd
of the Government anniversary
death of late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, it After the assumption of office by was decided that the People's Committee should Association at Canton removed to according to the size of the district, the various guilds will be notified We are in receipt of a telegram from Mr. Lam Wan-kai as acting-head of Movement
Committee, Municipal Nanking.
the keep the sum for the present, and Tsai Yeen-pui and toward the expenses for the 2nd to pay in their proportion within the Shanghai to the effect that Wu Pui-feithe Wu Sheh-tsang were also appointed phase of the Northern Expedition. limited time. The police stations has taken his retirement in Sung. following appointments have been should any public meeting be lack funds, this sum should be members of the committee. Mem. Large funds are specially needed at will be requested to assist in the shan Mountain in accompany with made:-Yiew Shi-fun to be Chief of
collection. It is reported that the 200 body guards and 10 atendents of the General Affairs Department; announced on the newspaper for used, but this fact must be bers of the committee met and this time, since we are approaching Finance Ministry will furnish the Peking papers report of his new decided to rename it the National the last lap in the unification of Chamber of Commerce with the activities and of his contemplated Yung Hok-tung, General-Secretary; three days. The accounts will be Other inspected by the People's Movement Educational Executive Council after China, and in the crushing of the necessary treasury bonds within the trip to the South Sea Islands are Ng Cheok-yu, Accountant.
Committer. militarist Chang Tso-lin.
'utterly unfounded, says the report. its removal to Nanking
next few days.
departmen's remain us before.
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