The Archive · 1927

Labour Exploited Ruthlessly

As regards hours of work, complaints were also received from the industrial unions, particularly from the railway men, wh wish, to point to. the case of violate "of labour legislation in transport undertaking. There is no single railway on which the tions concerning hours of work have been observed, although there exists for thie purpose a special Decree of the Commissariat of Labour. Labour is exploited just as if there were no labour legislation at all. In view of the numerous strikes that have taken place recently in our local mills and in the large Chinese departmental stores I would suggest that the management of those establishments might, with advantage, call the attention of their employees to certain of the above facts. Can Michael Gruzonberg explain to his dupes the condi-fons ruling in Russia, as disclosed by the Soviet officials themselves?

Can he promise his dupes that conditions in China will be different when those forests of chimneys arise for which he is yearning? Tam, ete,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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