Dame Adelaide Anderson's Outlook on the Local Problem in the Mills Dame Adelaide Anderson, late Principal Lady Inspector ctf Factories in England, has not come to China with the feeling that she has any infallible panacea for the industrial problems of the Far East, nor nas she any intention of making any suggestions along that line. So she told a representative of the "North-China Daily News" on Tuesday. She is here in Shanghai at the invitation of the National Christian Conference to place at its disposal the results of her experience gained in factory inspection work in England since 1894, to study conditions here for herself and to take counsel with them. upon the most pressing, needs of the situation.
Since leaving England in March, Dame Adelaide Anuerson has visited Africa and Australia, making an informal study of conditions prevailing in those countries and finding that legislation was proceeding on much the same lines as in England, although in Australia the tendency was rather toward. arbitration and to a court of wages award rather than to extensive unionization. In Hongkong she considered the new child labour legislation as working out very well so far. The inspector and assistant inspector, both expert social investigators, were apparently meeung with no difficulty in keeping children below the age of 12 out of the factories, nor with securing the part-tunic hours for children between 12 and 15. She was not able to make an exhaustive survey of the field but felt the reports were encouraging for the progress of the work.
Dame Adelaide Anderson—will be in Shanghai for at least a month and will then visit other parts of China, making this her headquarters. She intends to visit Japan to make an unofficial study of the factory legislation there.
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