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regulated the employment of women and children; laid down the principle of an eight hour day, again with certain concessions, and limited overtime to forty-six hours a month; provided for equal pay for male and female workers, and a day's holiday in every seven with a vacation of seven to thirty days every year. articles setting out the conditions governing the dismissal of workmen were included. Provision was made for leave with full wages, and for the institution of factory councils consisting representatives of employers and employees in order to promote harmony between capital and labour.
A factory inspection law was promulgated in 1931 and five periods were set out for the enforcement of the factory
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China ratified the following conventions of the International Labour Office of the League of Nations Nos.7, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 32 and 45, that is those dealing with Minimum age (Sea), Right of Association (Agriculture), Weekly est (Industry), Minimum Age (Trimmers and Stokers), Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea), Equality of Treat- ment Accident Compensation), Suamen's articles of Agreement, Repatriation of Seamen, Minimum Wage Fixing Machiner, Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels), Protection against Accidents (Dockers) (Revised 1932), and Underground Work (Women). The provisions of certain other conventions were incorporated in legislation.
It is to be feared that enthusiasm for reform and th pursuit of modernity encouraged the Government to ratify conventions and pass laws before possessing the machinery necessary for their enforcement.
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