LABOUR IN JAPAN
IMPRESSION CORRECTED CONDITIONS DESCRIBED. LONDON, June 16. Mr Ward Price, special correspondent in the Par East of the Daily Mail, contradicts the impression that Japanese cotton factories are working, at a loss, employing sweated labour, receiving Government subsidies and taking advantage of the depreciated currency. He supplies a new angle on Japanese competition with Britain. Girls in the Toyoda mill, which works two nine-hour shifts, receive from 6d to Is IOJd a day, with practically free board and lodging and spare-time schooling, for which their employers charge twopence a day. Men receive from Is to 3s 6d. Lancashire, says Mr Price, may think such workers underpaid, but the wag"S are good by Japanese standards. The girls are able to save for dowries and live comfortably in the company's dormitories. Sweating may survive in family workshops and small factories, but not in important enterprises which combine low labour costs, with high efficiency. Britain's only hope, says the writer, is to agree with Japan upon marketing zones and export quotas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21990, 27 June 1933, Page 7
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