18 HOUR DAY
There, is good reason, for believing that Japan's intense "' anxiety to accumulate wealth, and to eri'ter deeply inito th© maa-kets opened by the Avar- to her textiles, created an oftxoial teudency to forgive.,the fac-toi-ies tor extending the working hows 'beyond the limitsi prescribed in, 1916. Obviously tnea^e are siome •factoi-i-esi which lay themselves out to provide" good conditions-—or, oonditions AVhich 'by connparisoni may he' called good—'and among them/ are sionie of -the most s'liccessful Jia.panese eti'terprises. There is still much fraternal equality un this naition, though the boss is a multi-million-aire and the girl works, all . night long for less than, a shilling. The Japan Year Book talks of cotton mills in which, in a,-busy season, operatives were given an 18-hour day. Thai' book was issued 1 on August 31-, 1918. An 18-hour day sounds to us like a nightmare.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 3
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14318 HOUR DAY Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 3
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