the Enlitor of the "Noxru-Cuwa Datty News," to what their re Sit—Britons are in sus;
sbout their lives and properties, and would welcome a little more publicity Jas to the negotiations, There is more than a suspicion as to the futility of the entire scheme ey with the "Nationalists," Pekiog la apparently much more frank and above' board than Hankow.
It is noticeable that whenever the two parties seem to be getting to close quarters some flimsy excuse is brought forward and they fly apart ga The average Briton in China is getting annoyed at the game of Playing with the British Diplomat if he existed for the sport of the Chinese "Nationalist". Ta it not time we ceased being made fools of in this game in which the Briton is Let it be hammered into our minds if it cannot get there in any other way that the Bolshevist Nationalist Government as now Joperated in Hankow under the tremists have not the alightest intention of making any agreement with the British. If they do. sign something it will be only to. gain time and will be cancelled without [compunction just as soon as it suits the extremists to do 80.
Is it not possible for our people understand that for the Bolsheviks to ester into any valid or permanent agreement with the British would mean their complete What then is the use for us as practic ble men to waste further time in futile talk?
Our policy is to make our terms. plain to China and then throw in cur lot with the party or parties who will honour them and ce-operate with them as the real China. The others are our enemies as well as the enemies of China, The Russiang ted by Mr. Schmidt, and almost cil the speakers accused Commissariat accessories, the Inbour exchanges, of failure to exert sufficient energy in the campaign against. unemployment. The Commissary of Labour. twas of opinion that it was impossible to return to Communist methods of regulating the labour, market. Among other things there could be no question of making course to the labour exchange compulsory, ae had been urged by certain trade wnioniate, Appalling Increase of Accidents Mr, Schmidt had to admit, that there' was a tendency for accidents to increase, and. some. significant were mentioned in the report dealing with this matter. "From Sly, 1925, to June 1926, the acident rate per 10,000 working days rose from $10 to 410, In 1013, in the mining industry there were 47 accidents per year per 1,000. workers. The present rate is from 64 to 70, and during the first halt of the 1925-26 period the accidents in Jereased 48 per cent. in comparison with 1924-25. In other industries also there is a more or less 1 increase in the number of acci This is true also of the seasonal industries, such as building, wh Moscow there were ton times og may accidents as in 1035, The growth in the number of accidents is attributed to (1) de-{fective machinery and inadequate safety regulations in_ undertakings; (2) systematic opposition offered by the directing organizations of State industry to measures proposed for industried safety: (8) the lack of fencrgy and perseverance.on the part lof the organizations of the Commisfsarint of Labour; (4). the me efficiency of factory inspection.
Conditions in many undertakings late described es altogether. bad. Machinery is obsolete, and the. aw [material employed: is defective, What is still more serious, is that new undertakings or undertakings
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