[Suggestions for the Improvement of Silk Industry Nanking, Oct. 17.
'A delegation of the Shanghai Sik Factory Workers Union, hea ed by Lu Tao-ying, have arrived here and are making representations before the Ministry of Industry and Commerce urging early ment of working condit methods of production in the Shanghai silk filatures, In the petition submitted to Mi H.-H, Kung, Minister of Industry and Commerce, the workers' delegates point out that Chinese silk has been one of the important export products of the country. In recent years, however, the quality of Chinese silk often falls below that of Japan, and as a result most European and American countries are buying more and more silk from Japan. This condition, they state, not only affects the labour but also solution. of the present situation, make the followi Factories. should improve their methods of production.
Bactories should. produce better quality silk.
Factories should employ skilled and experienced. workers. Workmen should: have shorter hours, Factory awners should observe the agreement regarding treatment of workers.
There shoul be closer cor between capital and Br. Yao Tsung, the recently stalled Commissioner of Publ Safety in Nanking, has sent to his fellow-Commissioner in. Peking asking. him fo send 200 expert Poljcemen: to Nanking to.act as a mode) police corps in, the capital.
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