Dumping of Foreign Goods leged to Restrict Trde As the outcome of a meeting held the Shanghai office of the Minis try of Industry & Commerce, on August 20, when the question of difficulties encountered by Chinese industrial and commercial enterprises was discussed and it wa held that the greatest evil was t dumping by foreign merchants in China of large quantities of cheap goods, a meeting of Jocal industrial leaders took place on Tuesday. form an association called "the, "Chinese Industrial Association Op~ posed to the Dumping Policy of Foreign Merchants." Representa tives of the paper-doaters, matehdealers, and other guilds were pre sent and the following by-laws were adopted:—purpose of the Association together all the Chinese tories and. merchants to" fight against and to do away with the dumping policy of foreign imperialistic merchants in China, who import extra goods into the Chiness market and sell them so cheaply a9 to make it exceedingly dificult and almost impossible for Chinese pro ducts to compete, thas dealing a Geath-blow to Chinese industry and commerce, "All those factories established by, Chinese capital and. who manutace tare Chinese products, and all merchants who are affected by the dumping policy of foreign imperi istic: merchants ore allowed to b [come members of the Association, Each member of the Association is required to pay a membership £eq of $200 per annum, round-table conference labour "union representatives and oficnls of the Bureau of, Social Affairs of the Greater Shanghai Municipality was held on Monday, fat the Kuomintang headquarters, when over 200 delegates from, more than 100 labour unions were pre ent. "Mr. Chang Ting-hto, chief secretary of the. Burenu, presided and emphasized the fact' that the reason why the Bureau of Social 'Affairs and its. predrenor, the a of Agriculture, Industry reree, lid 50 far hot been able' to complish much in the way of relieving conditions for the Taboo ing classes was the dominance of imperialistic influence and the mae counter-revolutions aries.
The future plans of the Bureau for the betterment of following lines, he said:—An ent tainment club for Inbourers to be provided in both the eastern and western districts of, Shanghai; an evening school for the education Inbourers to be opened in October; an unemployment bureau to be opened; facilities for the safexuarde ing of health of proper sanitation to be provided; the establishment of a savings bank and insurances company; the erection of a hospital and the provision of a cemetery.
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