The labour question, then, for! Shanghai must be handled locally, a question of the preservation of local peace and the welfare of this community. If responsibility can be placed exactly, so that agreements; between employers and employees: can be carried out, it would be beneficial to recognize not general labour organizations but local shop organization. At present the Number Ones are selected by the employers, so that they cannot be said to re-resent the workers. The Number Ones, or chairmen of shop committees or leaders should be elected by the workers. One employer told me that he would be willing to pay expenses of such a system so that} he could know exactly representative.*In one mill in Shanghai, there already exists a modification of the shop committee, where the workers assume an interesting share of the responsibility for the discipline and the genera) running of the mill, At present there is anarchy: capital and labour together can work out system if they can find a way of working: together sympathetically.
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