Eddy on world labour unrest and speeches by leading representatives of industry in Shanghai formed the subject of an interesting and well attended meeting at the General Chamber of Commerce rooms last Friday, Mr. EH. F. Mackay pre sided, and was supported by Mr. C. W. Beswick, representing the Cotton Millowners' Association, and Mr. Rose, representing the Employers Federation.
Mr. Sherwood Eddy, who has travelled very extensively during and since the war, discussed at some length labour unrest universally prevalent, and methods of dealing with the problem. He frankly confessed inability to speak with any authority on conditions in China, but suggested that: foreign employers should give a lead by adopting three guiding principles: no employment df children under 12 years of age, one day's rest in seven, and reasonable security of life and health.
Speaking on behalf of the Cotton Millowners' Association. Mr. Beswick assured Mr. Eddy that emplovers were endeavouring to deal with their Chinese workers in a sympathetic spirit. Employers would welcome the abolition of child labour, he said, since it meant bad work, poor production and depreciation of valuable machinery, and this apart from thur natural like of secing young children in the factories when they ought to be at school. During the past 20 years various methods of keening children out of the mills had been adopted. without success,
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