But what did it mean in the office the "North-China" when the strike took place? I can see them getting together, all of them determined, from the Editor down ward, that' the paper had to come lout!" These men have been trained to reporting to sub-editorial work, to verbatim note-taking and so on on the editorial side of the paper, and at home they would not be called upon, "neither would the Unions allow' them, to touch any work on the practical fide of the paper. Then among them there are also jobbing printers, "display hands" they called them in my time, who know nothing about newspaper work, but can turn out good printing. Then there are Jmen who have not actually worked fat the intricate business of printing for many years, for they fare overscers—they plan and do the thinking and the Chinese do the actual work. Then there are men who know' all about printing machinery, but who have not worked with their hands on these machines for many years These wore the men who got tov gether to save the situation when fall the Chinese workmen went on strike, And I can sce them at work—a reporter writing his own par. and probably setting it up in type and dropping it into the forme; a subeditor marking his stuff, and probably gettin as he assists at making-who had never pulled a galley proof in his life trying to get a decent impression to read his own proof. As for stereotyping I Jsimply do not know how they did it. Similarly—with mac Tecan assure my readers that middle of June, in Shanghs was no easy task, 'Therefore, staff of the " North-China," my' hat is off to you all, Jand I hope the Shanghai public, and those in the far parts of the world who look for China news in the "Herald," will appreciate what you did when the Chinese refused to play the game. When the journalist of the Far East newspaper comes out fresh from Home, he jeeases to be what he was. He was specialist, one of that vast army who had job of work to do, and knew how, when and where to do, Now he has to be a general jack of all the trades that are embraced by the modern daily, and if he does Met know he has to settle down to Hearn. In such crises as that which [produced the "Herald" of June 13 the learns more about the other fel-Jow's job than he would learn in 20 years of routine at home, and has the satisfaction that he is
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