Manchester Comment: Promising Chance for Foreigners to Show the Way London, Feb. 13
'The "Manchester Guardian," in an' torial article headed "Modern says that women and dren are being exploited in China under conditions far worse than those against which English factory reformers agitated a century ago.
The problem of reform is, unhappily, peculiarly dificult, the journal coes on, The report of the Child Labour Commission of the Municipal Council of Shanghai is tone of the most melancholy. social documents in recent years. AS most of the foreign Powers with Treaty rights supported the International Labour Legislation, there should be no doubt with regard to their approval of the molest regulations proposed by the Commission, but all representations from England, such as that made by the China Section of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce will exert timely pressure. Shang hai must be encouraged to press We mast wait till China hax an ye central Government before be enforced on a says the "Manches-for Guardian in conclusion, "but, as has been shown in Hongkong, promising field for reform exists in areas under foreign influence Reuter,
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