It is expected that at the coming conference the problems of air mail transportation will receive very eon-siderable attention and practically all of the larger nations will be re~ presented in this department with special delegates. It is understood resolutions will be offered for the first time in a general meeting bear-{ing on alr mail services ud the opportunity of meetings experts in thi work from the several leading nations will be anxiously looked forward to and should result ina general exchange of ideas that will be extreniely beneficial to those nations whose air mail is not up to the standard of development reached by countries where the alr department is of longer life and has been more generally maintained. Particularly should this be beneficial to China and the deleyeates are most keen to discuss this important branch with Western members of the Union, The International Postal Union made up of practically every nation of the selobe and the pose of the four or fiv ings is to dis antis, transit charges, Union regulations, and consider what existing laws and yules need amending. For example a letter going from here to England Siberia, passes through Russia, Poland and Germany and not, me um tod ne each of et a proportion of the postal charge depending, on the services they render, it is quite con sable that the' meetings of the mare a necessity for the diseusus of the many questions that can. quite obviously arise, China's Labour Troubles Though one of the main difficulties in connection with the Chinese Postal Department at the present time is the tation veith the concurrent strikes that are seemingly always just around the corner, it is felt in postal circles that this con dition is peculiarly Chinese and they look for Tittle advice at the eon ference that can help to clear up the muddle.
And while the members expect the labour situation to come up for discussion in informal meetings, the solving of labour problems is not a part of the general saceting and will not officially be dealt with.
China may hear the latest developments in postal air craft but it seems that not even_a world congress of postal authorities from over 54 ons can materially assist in settling the ever occurring disputes that are constantly arising in the un employees of various unions the Chinese Postal Department. try of Finance has ottemporary retention of the Inland Custome offices, says the Chineve press. at
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