The Archive · 1929

Chinese Labour for Foreign Service

Restriction Agreed at Geneva Nanking, Aug. 19.

Speaking at the forum of the Centeal Party Headquarters of the morning, Mr. Ma Chao-chun, Chinese labour delegate to the International Labour Conference at Geneva, said that two Chinese xeolutions:

[proposing that the consent, of the Chinese Government should be a. sine qua won before foreigners: should be allowed to recruit Chinese labourers for work abroad, and that equal treatment should be accorded to and other non-

European workers in foreign countries, were unanimously passed by the Conference.

'A Chinese resolution, however, proposing that factories in China enjoying extraterritorial rights, should observe the Chinese factory laws, was rejected by Great Britain, Japan and Francs with hosts of friends waving fave-well.

The Counsellor of the Japanese: Legation, Mr. Horinouchi, will act Jas Charge e'Affaires pending the appointment of a new' Minister.

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

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