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SIR PETER GRAIN

FAREWELL TO SHANGHAI

LABOUR IN JAPAN

CHILD WORKERS IN PAWN TO

EMPLOYERS:.

TEXTILE WAGES FALL

THE PRINCE'S CUPS ON VIEW

EXHIBITION OF SPORTS TROPHIES

London, April 24. Trophies for which men have The International Labour Office, ary pressure of work, has grown. risked their lives, mementoes of has issued an important report on Most of the permits were for the heroic battles, souvenirs of gallant || "Industrial Labour in Japan' textile industry, and particularly occasions these are included in (London: P. S. King and Sou, pp. the weaving mills, which obtained the exhibition. of sporting trophies xvi. 413, 10), the first of a series 6,953 out of the 10,152 permits in which the Lord Mayor (Sir Porcy of studies of industrial conditions 1930-

***Greenaway) opened at Shell Mex in the East. It has been compiled

The Prince of Wales has lent a caseful of silver cups which he won as an amateur rider "over

the sticks."

In 1927 most of the cotton spia- House, Strand, this afternoon. in close association with the Japanning and weaving mills had a rest The hundreds of cups and bowla rse Government, and contains & period during the day of between from an exhibition of the art of good deal of otherwise inaccessible 51 and 60 minutes. The weekly rest the goldsmith and the silversmith. material.

day as not customary in Japan. They are insured for £500,000, but After a broad introductory sketch Most firms give two days a month, most of them are priceless, of the rise of Japanese industry with several holidays, such as New the book is divided into sections on | Yer's Day and at mid-summer, ́In industrial relations, labqur legis. 1937 most of the cotton spinners iation and administration, con-had four days' rest a month, but ditions of work, unemployment and ¦ four-fifths of the weavers had no

Lord Desborough, has lent 60 tro- migration, and workers welfare, more than two days During 1980 phies won at Harrow, Oxford and education, and co-operation. One more factories, especially spinning elsewhere for such diverse feats.us of the most striking points brought mills, granted a weekly rest, owing running, jumping, catching, seul- out is the importance of the or to the curtailment of production.ling, punting, fencing and fishing. ganisations of capital and the weak. Although the employment of young ness and insignificance of the or persons under sixteen and of wo- ganisations of labour. "The ormen is prohibited from 10 p.m. to ganisations of capital constitute 3 a.in., almost all cotton spinners to-day by far the most powerful have taken advantage of an excep social element in Japan. Most tion which allows them to be work of the basic industries of Japan are ed until 11 p.m. controlled by a relatively sinall

Textile Wages, number of wealthy families and con- Material on Japanese wages is centration (noticeably nevelevated difficult to judge. There are few after the ware with China and collectivo agrecimonts, for only some Russia and the Great War) has pro7. per cent, of the workers are or gressively increased until now not ganised. In the textile industries, only the manufacture of goods but for example, there were in 18304 the supply of and trade in raw unions with no more than 14,60 materials, the shipping trade, and members, of whom only 4,810 were banking itself has been absorbed by women. Only 0.7 per cent. of the some half-dozen families."

female workers in manufacturing industries were in trade unions in

Recruitment of Labour,

An important scetion deals with

"The recruitment of labour from the usual districts for the mills The number of recruiting agents has de creased from its former figure of

•

The biggest collection of all comes from Lord Burghley, the champion hurdler, who has sept 200 cups he has won for his univer sity and his country.

Some of the greatest sporting feats of recent times are represent- ed. There is a silver model of the

seaplane which won the Schneider Trophy outright for Britain with the world's speed reford of 407.5 miles an hour, together with the: trophy itself.

Sir Malcolm Campbell has lent his Daytona trophies and models of the Blue Bird, all reminiscent of his speed feats on Daytona

Beach.

You can see the "Scottish F. ·A. in a piece of brown paper! Cup, which was, delivered wrapped-

The most gruelling horse race ib the world is represented by the

Grand National Cup of 1902, won a mare, so good that she was nëver by Mr. Gorham's Shannon Luse. allowed to be ridden with whip or

spurs.

ners of the Derby by a collection You can recall the greatest win- of the silken caps and shirts worn from the horses' feet. by their jockeys, and by the shoes

The Ashes."

031. The wages of most workers are fixed by individual bargaining, and "supplementary wages "-over- tine pay, special allowances, bonuses, and payment in kind-are 50,000, but even now there are some an indispensable part of the work 14,000 agents, who in 1929 recruited er's earnings. In the textile indus 336,891 workers and in 1930 988,372. tries 66 per cent of the workers In the latter year 915,810 were re receive part of their wages. in cruited for the silk reeling, 750 kind; almost all the silk filatures for the cotton spinning, and 172 and cotton-spinning factories in for the weaving industries. The vestigated paid their workers on a agents go around with attractively system of money wages combined illustrated propaganda literature, with wages in kioð. In 1927 the Often they show cinematograph pic average daily wages of the 319,519 tures of factory life, describe its cotton-spinning workers were 1.13 (advantages in glowing terms, and yen in money, 14 yen in kind, a

The "Ashes" are on view, and a quote wages which naturally strike total of 1.27 yen. Among 16,802 shock they must be to every cric SHANGHAI, MẤY 12. **Law, but mostly justice-that parison with what they can earn in was 14 yen. In cotton weaving ed in a clay urn only four inches the country people as high in com paid wholly in money the average ket enthusiast. They are contain- was Mr. B. Calder Marshall's de agriculture. "They promise that 97,083 workers paid wholly in high, worth, apparently. about finition of the merits of the British part of the earnings of the recruit money received 8 yen a day fourpence, and crudely inscribed judiciary as seen through the eyes od boy or girl shall be periodically 42,011 paid in money aud kind re of Dr. C. C. Wu And the Chair- remitted to the parents, and as aceived 94 yen in money and .17

with ink. They are insured for man of the British Chamber of rule make the proposal that a lump yen in supplies, a total of 11 yen.

£2,000. Commerce applied the aphorism to sum of money shall be sent to In most factories wages are paid the guest of the evening in propos parents who may be in need of cash, once or twice a month. The wages ing Sir Peter Grain's health as When a large amount of money has of women factory workers are ex the Shanghai Club. Mr. H. G. W. been borrowed by the parents, the tremely low. There is little differ Woodhead, Chairman of the China son or daughter whose employment ence between the wages of the two Association, and Mr. Calder Maris the guarantee for the loon is sexes when they first begin to earn. shall's twin for the occasion, hap virtually deprived of freedom, and In September, 1981, the average pily rejected the usual epithets for is practically in the position of an daily wages of boys under sixteen judges and found one specially for indentured labourer. While there were .07 yen, as again 2.39 yen Sir Peter-the genial judge. More is no legal obligation for the work earned by workers over, that age over, Mr. Woodhead, noting that ers to remain with the employer while those of girls under sixteen Mr. Marshall had made play with until the money borrowed has been were 31 yen; as against 86 yen for a Shanghai schoolgirl's tribute to paid back by so many months, or women workers. The number of real English gentleman," added years, of work, there is, in fact, no boys under sixteen employed "as Kipling's definition as

eminently other solution than to continue in only 33 per cent. of all male work- appropriate to the subject eulogy the employment until the loan is ere. The number of girls under

If you can talk with crowds and paid back.

sixteen was 20 per cent. of all keep your virtue

female workers.

Or walk with kings, nar lose the common touch.....

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It is noted that although the ques- tion of loans and advances has not In the past three or four years been dealt with by legislation the there has been a steady decline in authorities are said to be trying to the wages of factory workers. The discourage it, and employers are decline in 1930 and 1931 is attribut With sixty seconds' worth of dis- beginning to find that there are ed to the increasing severity of the

If you can all the unforgiving

minute

tance run

inan my son.

and models presented to her hus

Mrs. Gustav Hamel has sent cups band, who carried the first aerial 1911, and who was given a tie-pin post from Windsor to London ix by the King for a demonstration of looping at Windsor.

The models of the early airplanes actual machines The Heart's Con- he flew contrast strangely with the tent in which Mr. J. A. Mollison made his perilous crossing of the Atlantie alone.

AUSTRALIA AT THE BRITISH EMPIRE FAIR

!

(Continued fram Page 11.).

disadvantages in the system, and trade depression. The report com- Yours is the Earth and every-the competition between them to plains of the lack of data for con- sait, sapphires, scheelito, sbale oil, thing that's in it

secure labour by these means is structing reliable index-numbers of silver, tin, wolfram, and zinc. Its: And-which is more-you'll be a diminishing. An inquiry into the the cost of living in Japan. The greatest mineral wealth in 1930 was conditions of young girls in silk conclusion is drawn that retail in coal, lead and silver-lead, gold, The crowded room vigorously filatures in 1924 showed that in 80 prices. have deolined considerably iron, zine, copper and tin, in that bore testimony to the accuracy of per cent. of the cases loans had been during the last five years, and order. Mineral production value these tributes. Sir Peter Grain made. Only 18 per cent of these there has been an advance in real for the last five years averageð cheerfully observod that he was workers had borrowed the money wages. among friends and

companions. for their own needs; all the rest working days per month has, how £24,000,000 in 1925 to £15,400,000 in The average number of about £20,000,000, but it fell from When he had come to Shanghai had been borrowed by their families.ever, slightly declined in recent 1930. twelve years ago he knew no-one. The amount of loans per head rang years, and the workers are earning He left with the feeling that he ed from 1 yen to 480 yen, the aver- less per month now than a year or had around him men and women age being 31 1-3 yen, equivalent to two ago. who had shared his pleasures in nearly 2 months wages. (The yen every activity which

Shanghai at par was . old). In 1028 the offered and who had, by their average indebtedness of girls in an friendship and invariable amiling other prefecture was 23 yen. The gaiety, lightened his dryaadust taak report makes two quotations on the of sitting on a beach and hearing effects of the system: interminable eloquence from Crowa Most of the parents who have Advocates, lawyers, and their asked for one loan demand others, brood.

GIFT FROM THE BRITISH BAR

eo that the girls have no oppor tunity of earning wages for their own use. In order to meet this difficulty they are willing to do overtime work at rates far lower than those for regular work.

The hape that the gift would re-

There are many young girls who mind his lordship of the members of

work without knowing how their the British Bar Association was ex loans are liquidated or even with- pressed by Mr., A. G. Mossop, the out the knowledge of exactly how Crown Advocate, at a function held at noon on Wednesday, the occasion much they are being paid. being the presentation of a large silver salver to Sir Peter Grain by the Association.

Working Hours.

PONIES' CLASSIFICATIONS

LATEST CHANGES

Sport.

Because Australians, through heredity and environment, are, above all, sportsmen, the visitor. can enjoy some of the world's finest horse racing in ideal "surroundings, much as the Melbourne Cup, which The Jockey Club notifies us of is run in November each year. He the following changes in Classican join with 60,000, others in wit fication of focal race ponics

Mignonette Gold Bar The Goat The Loafer Orlando

to D. Class to E CAES to E Clas bo) (E- Claes to O Claas

nessing an international test cricket match, or see the titanio struggles of the football field in various codes. He can also play golf, polo, tennis, baseball or Jacrosse motor, yacht, ride a horse, a camel, or a surf board, or enjoy, eki-ing, toboggan- ing and ice skating. He can join in hunting, or shoot game and wild- fowl. Even buffalo and arocodile shooting are obtainable by the in- trepid enthusiast

WHEELER AND WOOLSEY IN THE ROSE ROOM

SPECIAL PROGRAMME AT

PENINSULA HOTEL - The statistics of hours of work

This talk has been asked for in are conflicting. The labour census To-night the two Hollywood com- connection with the British Empire In making the presentation, Mr. of 1927 showed prevailing hours of edians, Wheeler and Woolsey, will Fair Hong Kong which is to be Mossop said that he hoped that work in silk filatures to be just un be attending a special Gala Night held at the Peninsula Hotel on the when Bir Peter, on his retirement, der 11 a day, and in cotton epinning given in their honour in the Rose 24th to 27th May, and I take this looked at the salver; it would help and weaving just under 10 hours. Room of the Peninsula Hotel. opportunity of thanking all those him to remember the faces, and The Bureau of Statistics gives An extension up to 1a.m. has who have done so much in making more particularly the roads, of hours 32 minutes as the average been obtained, and the evening this Fair possible and which means the members of the British Bar day in textiles in 1930, which re-looks as if it is going to be a so much in the way of stimulating. Association in Shanghai.

flects the effect of the abolition of very attractive one.

Empire trade. The Australian

•*. Responding, Bir Peter thanked night work in cotton spinning in Don and Sally, the accomplished Section will be housed on the large the Association for the gift, and 1920, which reduced hours in this dancers, will appear in their verandab in the first floor of the then "related" a number of amusing branch from 10 to 8 According spectacular numbers and Sands Peninsula Hotel and a substantial incidents of his career.

to the 1927 census of labour 8 per and Dawn, the two vocalists and range of Australian" products wil! The sulveris à large one, en- cent of the cotton workers worked eccentric tap dancers will again be shown. graved with the names of the man- overtime, to the average extent of delight the audience with their per- HABADE, LTD.bers of the British Bar Association, 4 minutes a day in epinning and formances, or

zome 25 names in all being on itse minutes in weaving.. During the After the great success of Batur A dinner was given, at the Cathay last few years the number of per day last we feel sure that the Hose Hotel on Saturday night by the its for overtime working up to Room will once more be packed for Association in Sir Peter Grain's two hours a day and for seven days an entertainment which, in these honour

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