CHEAP CHINESE LABOR
China as a menace to the industrial world in the near future was visualised by Dr. S. Lavington Hart, who for many years has been prominently connected with educational work in the East, at a recent meeting in Liverpool. A great flood of sweated labour, Dr. Hart said, was going to threaten every part of the world unless a new spirit was introduced into Chinese industrial life. No solution of the 'problem was likely to be more effective than the spread of education. The conditions of labour where the new industrial life has taken root, said the speaker, were very cruel. Men worked 15 or 16 hours a day, and women and children for 11 or 12 hours. There was no Saturday and no Sunday and no holiday throughout,the year except the Chinese New Year's Day.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6545, 18 November 1924, Page 8
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139CHEAP CHINESE LABOR Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6545, 18 November 1924, Page 8
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