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“SWEATED LABOUR” IN HONGKONG.

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and no official statistics as to hours or nther conditions.

The approaching Census of the Colony affords an opportunity of collecting statistics on this point; but not unless a special enquiry made in the day-time,

as the ordinary census, taken al night, would not contain any parti culars of the different factories..

DRAINAGE,

etc., etc.

in Hongkong to fix from time to time the minimum wages to be: paid for coolie labour in Hongkong. I steps were taken to make-the Fates fixed known' to the coolies, it would be quie sale to leave it to them to deal with their em- ployers and won botide the rash woman who turned blackleg and tried to undercut! she could safely be left to the "female of the spocies."

In fixing the minimum wage the fluctuating prices of the neces- saries of life should be taken inlo consideration and the wage adjusted accordingly..

By the necessaries of life I mean such things as a decent and healthy room, sufficient clothing and food to keep the mother and child in good health, and fuel and light and water-not- £ very ambitious programme.

pr

one un-

Of course, no humane and thoughtful person would ever wish to pay a human being, much less a fellow citizen, less than sufficient to procure these bare necessaries, but unfortunately employers are not always humane

and thoughtful: scrupulous employer is able, by exploiting unskilled unorganised labour, to undercut and, perhapa, ruin his trado rival: hence the need for legislative interference. Another possible objection is that if Hongkong is made too attractive to labour, we shall be overrun by the teeming millions of the neighbouring Republic, who would swamp our already over- crowded Colony.

There are several. answers to this; one is that the immigration of undesirable aliens can be checked by the Government and

tion.. But there is no grant aurplus alien labourers can be

aculty to an intelligent and repatriated. xperienced officer in judging Another is that although the whether a woman or child is over available houses in the urban oaded or not, and the duty should districts

aro overcrowded, the e entrusted only to officers of exColony itself is not. Anyone whe

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with regard to hours or ages of perience and reliability in the remarks the wonderful progress labour, except in the cases of rag-olice, Public Works Department in developing the Colony, especial- picking and cleaning hair and and Sanitary Department.

the last two years,. feathers, where the wosplaynient of

A precedent for the necessary children under 10 is prohibited. legislation exists (as I pointed out will see that there is room for a There is, I believe, no rceord of the April, 1920 in the Employment of we have at present both at Kow- the Attorney General on 21st very much larger population than numbers, ages or sex of persons Children Act, 1903, Section aloon and on the Island. At, Kow- employed in factories or workshops, sub-Sections 4 and 5, which are soon valleys are being filled in rough places made plajn, and (4 ohild shall not be em.mountains, cast into the

ployed to lift, carry or move enormous reclamations are iR anything so heavy ns to be progress or projected, and with likely to enuse injury to the the improved system of town-

chuld.

planning now in vogue, and the “(5.)--A child shall not be em improved communications talked ployed in any occupation likely about, there should soon be healthy to be injurious to his life, limah accommodation for all classes of or health. After the necessary data have

Fogned being a large commercial and industrial been obtained a Committee of re-

had to his physical condition." community both on the Island and The person issuing the load Mainland.

But if women of education and College are themselves maintaining presentatives of the employers and the employed under the presi-should be punishable as well as the

Thirdly? I have already referred tact, speaking Chinese, were em-and teaching branch schools in NOOKICCHIOCHI CHHOCHICCHICCXIOCHOGHdency of a Government official parent for any breach of these to Dr. Wellington Koo and his resentment would vanish, and the girls of St. Stephen's are doing a ployed for this duty I think the various outlying districts, and the might be appointed to fraine provisions.

progressive ideas. is not young Chinese ladies might easily be led like good work for their own sex. | suitable regulations Most of the

10.-A Living Wage.

China full of similar men? And to take a greater interest in the This shows that the spirit of si- HOC DISUSUTONUS********-----------------UUTU-TITS--Roo | employers" are, I believe, quite Several objections have been put are not they the leaven that will welfare of their maid-servante. vilization is spreading in the rising humane and liberal (necording forward to any interferencs with leaven the whole lump? The to their lights) in the treat. this species of child labour.

It has been stated that no wages generation, who are taking an inter- local authorities at Canton seem are paid to the servant girls, and ost in the welfare of the community. ment of the employees, and arg | The most important is probably to be very progressive, full always ready to respond to any sug-that if the child does not work both modern ideas, and any improve-of 1913 casts at present on the

of the only liability which the law 13.-Recreation Grounds, etc. gestions for aprovement made to ebild and parent.will be worse off,ments in the conditions of labour masters and mistresses isto refrain for the unskilled workers and the The bare provision of accessaries them but it is not safe or fair to even possibly to the extent of in Hongkong are likely to be from cruelty and rely on voluntary effort, as one un-

to provide children is no doubt a first charge copied on the adjacent Mainland, adequate food, clothing principled employer may not only This objection could have been and the excessive flow of immigra-lodging. I qubmit that the ser- of civilization goes far beyond that. and upon the community, but the ideal -treat his own hands," but may raised at any time during the last tion stopped. by "swenting methods undereuthundred years to all proposals for

vant girls should be given the "Modern communities provide not the liberal and enlightened em controlling or regulating the etions on labour is that they tend the employers should be obliged streets, police, water, drainage, Another objection to all restric status of apprentices, and that paly schools, hospitals, roads and ployers.

ployment of women and children, ta Another very urgent need is the and I think the answer may be Colony: I do not think that the

the to train them either to a trade er ght and facilities of transport, also tha masnu of re- appointment of female inspectors of summed up in a few words.

as sempstresses, hairdressers, but factories and workships, either un. No community can call itself

Colony need fear on this account: cooks, or the like, and to provide creation in the shape of public gar der the Secretariat for Chinese truly civilized unless every mein-

well-conducted and well-elementary education, reasonable deas, play-grounds, swimming Affairs of the Sanitary Depart ber of that community, who is will managed industry is likely to be pocket-money and leisure. At a pools, baths and wash-houses, The-

ing to work, can contant a living fairly, and, if, the badly conducted free to take up employment else-to the health and comfort of the injured by treating its empleyes suitable ago the girl should be last mentioned are really essential 5.-Coolle Women and Children. wugs for his or her work.

Next to fuctories and workshops | I know the economists will pro. and sweated industries are driven where, or marry.

poorer classes. comes, perhaps, the most difficult test, and the law of supply and de. away, so much the better for the It is most unfair to regard the

14.---Conclusion. problem, the improvement in the mand will be quoted.

Colony's physical and

moral cases which appear in the Police I have based my appeal for the condition of cnulie women and chit. But this is no new question: more health.

Court as typical of the treatment improvement of the condition of dren.

than 4,000 years ago statutory rates)

11.-Servant Girls.

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12.-Education,

the

The sight of women and children of hiring and wages were fixed by There remains the vexed ques- probably well cared for, but the ference to women and children, toiling up the Peak with heavy the law of Hammurabi of Susation of servant girls. Two years exceptional cases prove the need upon altruistio motives, but there lunds

ово of the most King of Babylonia, referred to by ago I said that slavery is impossi-for inspection and control.

are two more aspects to the frequent topica of

The first is that the comment the senior Chaplain of the Cathedral ble under the British flag, and that] It should also be made obliga-question. by resident and visitor alike; we the other day.

every slave coming under that tory upon the employer to provide bands in the Far East is not fair to uncontrolled competition of factory ore all familiar with it, and all wish In more recent times Trade flag becomes free automatically. adequate medical aid; this is the that something should be done, but Unions have fought, and fought I have no doubt of the accuracy rule in England, and having re-the workers and the employers of the difficulty is to discover a successfully, for Fair Wages." of that statement. But although gard to the excellent hospitals, the British Empire, Europe or remedy.

and in 1919 the minimum wages property in human beings cannot and public dispensaries, which America. By allowing sweated This matter has frequently been received the statutory sanction in exist in Hongkong, it cannot be exist in Hongkong, I can see no labour in the East we are ioarena- discussed in Hongkong, and formed Great Britain of the Trade Boards disputed that the possession and good reason for the omission of ing the unemployment of our own the subject of another question in Act of that year. Since then, I custody of children is passed from this provision from the 1918 Act- trade of the Colony. The second is kith and kin, and damaging the the House of Commons on Decorn- believe, a minimum wage clanne hand to hand amongst the Chinese ber 20th last, and the Vader has been included in every Govern for monetary and other considera- the consideration of the Govern the world

I believe this point is under that the workers Secretary of State said that the ment contract in Great Britain, and tions, and that the master or mis-ment.

are awakening to Governor was being asked what ac.it would be a simple matter for the tress who thus acquires control

the hardships of their condition, tion be considered possible.

local Public Works Department to over a child regards the child as

the spirit of Revolution and. But- Here again total probibition la adopt such a clause.

No discussion of the position of shevism is abroad, even at our yery Minimum

property.

WOMBA and children would be doors. If we disregard these irapracticable because of the insut- wages were also established by the We are told that the Republic complete without some reference omens, we shall indeed be rowing ficiency of schools, but regulation Colliory Act of 1912.

of China has prohibited slavery: to the important subject of Educa- the wind of discontent and sedi- is, I think, not only practicable, But the great change came dur- that may be so, but the custom tion, but I have no time to deal tion, and in due season we shall but fairly simple.

ing the war, when the labour of the The coolie women and children Tiritish community was mobilised, above described exists and must with that now.

rasp the whirlwind of Revolution It is enough to say, that during and Anarchy. A few drops of this wonderful Essence sprinkled on the under contractors and foreren, and tion) Act of 1918 empowered the has been appointed to consider to have been a great awakening as a community to trim and work on well-defined lines, usually and the Wages (Temporary Regula We know that a local Committee} e last two years there appears If, on the other hand, we strive Handkerchief and inhaled, Cures Colds, Banishes Headaches, if weights could be regulated at the Minister of Labour to establish this question, but I venture to on this subject. Hay Fever, etc.

loading point and checked oc.tribunals consisting of represents-

The supply of feed the lamp of civilization, to VAPOLINE INHALANT possesses one unique feature-on casionally at other points, it should tives of the employers and the suggest a few points for the con- schools is being rapidly increased, raise our fellow citizens out of contact with the air it develops & gives off antiseptic Vapours be easy to provout an excessive workman, with sa independent sideration of that Committee, and the question of providing | their state of degradation into yoER-- which gradually gain in strength, hence it is very economical in load.

chairman, to fix the rate of wages We are told that registration of trained teachers is being dealt parative comfort and well being,, use, One application giving protection for a whole day. It must be remembered that to be paid in any trade in any servant girls would be useless with. Much, however, remains to we shall have earned our place lo

Chinese peasant women and their | district.

*** without inspection involving entry be done, and there, should be no the Council of the Nabiðu“, and children, especially from the couD- This Act was extended (to the Into private homes, which the stint of money, and no slackening shall be it to take part in the try, have been habituated for untold end of last year at least) by the Chinese would very much resent of effort. B

Faderation of the World for Sam generations to the carrying of loads | Industrial Courts Act, 1919:

I agree, if the inspectors were Two luoldents strike one as being good of mankind, g uphill, and in fixing any scula suis. There would be no great difficulty men, possibly ignorant of Chinese of very happy augury for the fant must be taken into considéra-i în assembling a similar. Committed language and customs.

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