To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cumva Dam News"
Sm,—The generosity of your correspondent C.A.B. is surely unparallelled in the annals of this so generous city. He proposes to make free with money which is earned and, if one. may judge by the twenty-four hour day that most Shanghai servants are made to work (and never a word about holidays with pay), richly deserved by.his blameless house servants. Maybe it would be impolite to spoil the gesture by pointing out that almost every poor Chinese in Shanghai is supporting. a horde of his unemployed and still poorer relations and friends at a cost much greater in proportion to his income than any Charitable donor Chinese or Foreign.
Frankly I should be more impressed if CAB. were to make a suggestion that cost himself and his peers something instead of one that hits those least able to bear a loss, and who have probably been counting on receiving this deferred portion of their pay to put their affairs in order, Sarcasm apart, though, I hope that Shanghai people who have been so generous will not earn the ridicule they would get by holding such a pistol to the heads of Shanghai servants.
O, for a Shanghai, Servants' Union to protect "boy" and cook, coolie and amah from treatment that no sell. respecting human would put up with in any other country and to bring Shanghai masters and missies to their senses JO Shanghai, Jan. 19,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.