Oct. 8.
1x an appendix to a report on the conditions and prospects of, British trade with China issued by the Department of—Overseas Trade, attention is directed to labour unrest in this country. The report has been compiled by Mr. H. i. sisted by Mr. C. W. Rose and Mr. H. J. Brett, and naturally, coming from such a source, it is to be relied upon as showing an accurate picture Chinese conditions. Dealing with guilds in relation to labour difliculties the appendix to which we have alluded mentions that of late years, and more especially since the war, these guilds have increased in number, and in a place like Shanghai now embrace almost every form of labour, skilled and unskilled. Once we have this fact before us we come to what will undoubtedly prove a source of trouble in the future, for, quoting the strike of June. 1919, when work was suspended at the beliest of the anti-Japanese movement, the writers "The inherent capacity of the Chinese for combining and blind obedience to the orders of their superiors has placed great power in the hands|i of those, often professional agitators, who lead them." The report goes on to show that this
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