July 24, Attention to the provision of healthy conditions for workers in Shanghai's factories is being use~ fully stimulated. To the "Chit Quarterly" for the summer of 195
Mr. John S. Barr contributes a thoughtful article based on the Gear and Read Reports on the printing and chromium plating trades respectively and pertinently remarks that "every citizen of this area is responsible for an attempt to better the lives of these workers."
In devising means for enforcing its Factory Law the Chinese Government has a complicated task. The complexity is illustrated by the fact that the International Settlement of Shanghai has probably the largest factory population of any: single administration in the whole of China. The efforts of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the City Government to remove the political difficulties from the path of reform have been admirable and brought almost to complete success. The Consular Body has intimated its approval of the draft agreement emerging from negotiations be-{tween the two municipal authorities, subject to one reservation. The Consuls have expressed their inability to make their approval operative unless the agreement specifically recognizes the fact that the Chinese Factory Law can apply only to Chinese factories in the International Settlement. Where the Council was prepared for the agreement to be implicit the
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