That the conditions of we) workers in Japanese factories 'shall far from satisfactory is the pression gained by Miss Pusako Ishikawa, head of the Women' Section of the Tokyo branch of the International Labour Office, Miss Ishikawa paid a visit to several mines and factories employing women and declares that the conditions under which the women are made: to work are "very miserable." She intends to issue a pamphlet shortly, setting forth the actual conditions funder which some of these laves ate forced to toil. Steps also are being taken by women interest-fed in bettering the lot of their fellow-toman in humbler stations of life to have women inspectors appointed by the Government, whose main duty would be to visit afl the mines and factories in the land and [devise means to ameliorate the condition of the female workers, A petition to the Government to this effect now is being drafted.
Miss Ishikawa and other women interested in this branch of social service work propose to make frequent trips to factories from now on, gleaning information and laying the facts before the public. "By means of such trips," she says, "we hope to arouse public opinion to the wretched conditions prevailing jin some factories where women ate employed, and of ameliorating these jeonditions. I am sure that: the factories in and around Tokyo exe no better than those we wale ready visited. The appointment of women inspectors by the Govern ment is a. sore necessity for cus sisters in distri
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