From time to time during the past two years we have drawn attention to the position of foreign employees of the China Merchants S..N, Ca, 'Today a further peal is made by one of our readfers on behalf of a very small class who are surely most deserving of sympathy, veterans, who after many years faithful service have been' retired on pensions. Most if rot all of these men are wholly dependent on their pensions and, having now received nothing at all from the Company since 1926, are destitute, The conditions of the not Who is precisely respon-it is quite impossible to say. hareholdexs blame Government control, and. the Government's investigators blame the management. Between the two there appears no one who can be pinned down in the matter. Yet surely it cannot be the wish of anyone who has any hand in the Company's control that these old and well tried servants should thus. suffer. Moreover, although the Company's affairs are in some confusion, every ship that puts to sea must' be making good money: the nett profit on a round trip between Shanghai and Tientain cannot be less than $40,000, ind certainly money when it is need-these circumstances, would urgently plead that the' pensioners' claims may be satisfied, The amount due to them, outstanding on June 30 last, was about £8,000 and the annual sum required. for their pensions is, we be-Have, not more than £1,400, Not a large sum, but a claim of large deserts.
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