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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 14th, 1927.

FACTORIES IN CHINA.

12:

LABOUR CONDITIONS REVIEWED IN BRITISH

FOREIGN OFFICE MEMORANDUM,

FAR SUPERIOR IN BRITISH FACTORIES.

In accordance with the promise accurate information is the cause of recently given by Sir Austen Cham- many unfounded charges that are berlain in the House of Commons, brought in this country against the the British Foreign Office has British employer of labour in issued a memorandum on labour China. It is said that the British conditions in China, in which have gone to China in order to various charges brought against fasten the yoke of capitalistic ex- British employers in that country ploitation of labour upon the Chi are effectively refuted. It is recallness that the British export credit ed that the report of the Child to China and use that credit to Labour Commission in Shanghai erect factories and exploit cheap and the consular reports from all labour; that the products of this over China, published in the Blue cheap labour are exported into. Book" China No. 1 (1025), gave a other countries, such as India, fairly complete picture of labour where they compete with English conditions in that country. The manufactures, and thus injure the general standards of life, housing British working man that thei and hygiene are, it is stated, in authorities of foreign Concessions credibly low. The standard of refuse to apply Chinese factory wages is correspondingly low and legislation in the Concessions; that of child and the child labour by-law for the the exploitation female labour is regarded as both International Settlement at Shang normal and natural. It is noted, hai was defeated by means of

organised boycott, however, that in China as in the deliberately West this exploitation with all its which prevented a quorum bring attendant evils was in full vigour socured." HONG KONG,

before there was even a beginning of a factory system.

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1. Chinese having barely begun to emerge from the stage of domes tat industry, the total amount of all capital invested in factories is insignificant. Nearly the whole of this capital is Chinese, only a small percentage being British. The in- terests of the British in China are therefore overwhelmingly those of the trader and only to a very in- of the significant extent those capitalist or employer of labour.

To some extent, the memorandum proceeds, these misstatements arise "Labour is therefore unorganis-out of honest ignorance of a very el, and there is a tendency for the complicated and little-known sub- ject. They can, however, be refuted Jaw standards of pay and of hour- ing, the long hours of work and then a few brief paragraphs sum- exploitation of women and chil-marising the facts: dren, which prevail in domestic and cottage industries, to be car- ried on into the small and scatter ed factories now springing up. The whole population lives in poverty, and low standards and long hours are in their eyes both natural and normal, and there is consequently no public sentiment against labour conditions which in Europe and America would be considered intolerable. The rapid spread of the Nationalist move- ment all over China is making a the great change regarda organisation of labour, but even now it would would be idle to expect that the Chinese Govern- ment should attempt to enforce re- gulations for which there is not only no demand, but which would bo bitterly resented by the very persons in whose supposed interests the regulations were imposed." Foreign Factories Have The Better Conditions.

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2. In the development of the Inc- Lory system in China the influence of foreign capitalists, both British and Japanese, inasmuch as it has set up higher standards and in- troduced humanitarian ideas, has been entirely beneficont.

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3. The evil conditions of labour Chinese factories are duc primarily to the low standards of living that prevail generally in China and to the total absence of effective legislation. The disap pearance of the concessions-und of extra-territoriality will probably militate against improvement in labour conditions; on the other haud, growth in the power and in- Ruence of the Nationalist party, which has (on paper, at last) adopted a labour policy, may pro note such improvement.

Conditions in foreign fac tories, particularly British and Japanese, are better than in Chi- ese factories. A high proportion of the for British factories chal- lenge comparison with any in the world.

6. There is no Chinese legisla tion which can be applied in for

The Provisional eign concessions. Factory Regulations of 1923 are un suitable and exist only on paper.

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All the evidence, says the memo- randum, points to the fact that conditions in foreign, and especial. ly British, factories in China, though naturally in some respects not equal to European standards, are, in fact, far superior to the conditions in the vast majority of Chinese factories. "The indus trialisation of China has barely commenced, and the British share in this industrialisation is very small indeed. There is no British capital invested in Chinese fac

5. The movement for socuring tories, whereas in British factories hetter conditions for labour was the capital is generally largely initiated, and has been led, by for subscribed by Chinese. Only four

both missionaries and cotton mills out of 128 are British, eigners,

apitalists. The Chinese, with a B.K. Bank Of these three belong to Evo Cot-few brilliant exceptions, have been ton Mills (Ltd.), in which the generally apathetic, and Chinese capital 38 per cent. Chinese, and

labour organisations, so far as the fourth belongs to the Oriental Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., have led astray into politics, have been interested only in which the capital is 54 per sent.

in the question of wages. Chinese. The only places in Chine where foreigners may own factories are at the treaty ports, but the cou

ular reports show that it is only at a few of the largest ports which happen also to be industrial cen-

It is added that the labour by-Hong Kong Fire in.......3600 nom, ires, such as Shanghai, Nanking, law for the International Settle Dongles...... $31 no. Hankow, Tientsin, and Harbin, ment at Shanghai failed in 1925 Steamboats. that British factories are to be because under the settlement re- Hong Kong Tugs .... found. With regard to all the gulations one-third of the rate Indo-Chine (Fret.) other ports, the conditions at Can-

(Def) Do payers must attend before a new ton may be regarded as typical.by-law can be passed. A similar

Bbell Transports Here his Majesty's Consul-General rule would block simitar legisla-Star Ferries

Waterboats......... native tion in the most enlightened coun- some seventy factories, but there is only one try in the world. Nevertheless, Malabon Sugar

China Ongare email British aerated water fac- quorum would have been secured if tory."

it had not been for the Chinese op- Benguets..... Unfounded Charges.

position and the occurrence of Kailan Mining Ad..

Langkats (combined).. It is pointed out that the Blue serious riots on the day of the meet- Lo. (single) Book erroneously stated that of ing. A larger percentage of British

S'hal.

Explorations 273 factories in the industrial area ratepayers than of any other na Shanghai Loans of Shanghai, eighty-seven were for- tionality attended the meetings. It Banba eign and twenty-eight were British, is probable that the Chinese, while Tronoh Minas It is not possible to state how many still failing to enforce legislation Ural Caspiana... British factories there are ia of their own, would resent any fur H.K.

HAR. & W. 'Docks.. Shanghai, but it is evident, the ther attempt to legislate in the In- nemorandum states, that the num-ternational Settlement as an in- Bongkawi .......

Naw Hugineuringe. ber is very smali. This lack of vasion of their sovereignʻrights.

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LADY GUILLEMARD'S FAREWELL.

PRESENTATION FROM THE SINGAPORE CHINESE.

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814-bay.

.10 nom.

.$50 nom.

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8 buy. & 8.

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31 nom. $1.70

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7 mo

nom.

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8/. nom. 398 now.

338 BOUL. Tis. 135 buy. I. 5 buy,

Tis.

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nom

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• kinildings......... 189 n Primoo's Mural and

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........Tls. 211⁄2 bay.

Tls. 161 buy.

W. 9 tom.

Choon Guan, for having attended the function, which gave the Chi ness community of Singapore the opportunity of bidding her farewell. By her personal interest in the Bwo Cobians ...........11, 74 bay. several institutions with which she Orientals bad been connected, Lady Quille mard had endeared herself to all Shanghai Cotton (old)...! A farewell At Home was given at and the Chinese community, being China Buses. the Garden Club, Tanah Merak, on the largest in Singapore, had bene ILK. Traktaways... Wednesday last week, in honour of filed by her good work in propor Peak Traza (old)......$15 nom.

it only fitting Do (new)... thought Laly Guillemard, wife of H.E. the tion.

Tractions... Governor who both left Singapore that Her Excellency should take flingspore on Friday. The function was at away with ber some memento to re- tended by a large number of guesta, ioind her of her stay in Singapore, Amusements who were graciously received by and they had decided that this Canton Low Mrs. Lee Choon Gaan and Mrs. 6. should take the form of a jade nock- Demente (combined).

lace. Q. Wong.

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LD. selections of music during the after- nock, Lady Guillemard, in a brief

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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

ON LONDON,

May 18th, 1927.

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Paris

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Brussels

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which resulted in a win for the seven years in Singapore and could seno Electrics e§88-1992 17 54 10.

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Chinese pair.

look back on her stay in Singapore Bups (ald) $10 xom,

Do. (now) $ DO Later in the afternoon Mr.. B. as a very interesting period. She Wong thanked Lady Guillemard, on was very sorry to leave all her Land Crawford....97 not.

(Continued at foot of news solumn.) behalf of his wife and Mrs. Loe frienda-Singapore Free Press.

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