Mr. K.P. Chen's inaugural address' follows: "The Inatiguration the 'Cotton Industrial Commis: Sion has. devolved upon my callengoes and me, as His Excellency Dr. Srong has jose. pointed out, a tank tremendous. Importance' to the economic rehablltation of the Ssuntry forthe: accomplishment of which, we are not to shrink froma diticatties, "As the commission is's new organisation in China, the exercise. of the power" of control ver the cotton industry. bythe Sommission may possibly raise some fnisunderstanding onthe part. of the pose nik wake aa myself of this "opportunity to clear.
"othe "word, control of course, means some. sort of authorita Unified and planned management nventeprise, "The creation of the preven utilization of political forces to hel Promote the cotton industry. a the solution of these problems which the industry by itself is not ins. position to" tackle: at. present. Te the pooling "of intellectual
United Front supper verne revoucay in the Instr to frm mental authority 10 that the whole may' contribute towards the better: ment and_ development. of the: in-try? Mu" an fg an can ce, the function of the Commission, The Soul of the Trade "The cotton industry is wide in its scope. Between the cotton growing farmer and the consuny? fof cotton goods, there are cotton merchants, spinning, weaving and iveing mills, cotton goods dealers together with numerous indirectly related trades. "As cotton mills are the soul of the trade, a country' without cotton mills cannot be said "have possessed 9 cotton. filature to maintain them efficiently Jomounts to the same thing. The recent distressed conditions of our, cotton mills and their effects on business as a whole are serious enough and pregnant with grave consequences. There are of course many causes to account for this xad condition; natural calamities, in-{ternal war-fare and external force: fand the general depression of the world have all inone way or another contributed to the breakdown of our cotton industry. "The failure of all attempts in the past to relieve the distress of the industry bears evidlence to the fact that the problem 1 no longer be treated as a "local a incident," but has to he studied competely in relation to the whole jand thoroughly overhauled on much bigger scale. To meet this nece: sity, the necessity of re-examining the problems of the cotton industry, the present Commission comes into existence.
The Fundamental Task "What will the commission do? Details of course, have yet. to, be planned but since the public has already shown so much' interest the nature of our work, T deem it my duty to ive you'd few outlines of, the task before us "(1), "Our fundamental work' must begin with 'Taw materials. Om the one hand we must increase the production of cotton; on the other, Improve. its. quality. We shall en= frage the services of experts, exttablish "efficient. organisations' ana proceed with the work with oar Whole energy. 80. that We may reap the' best possible result im the short fest period, Besides cotton-planting, we shall also. provide. marketing, transportation and testing facilities.
shall for instance, render financial help to the cotton farmer, devise scientific systems of grading, abolish adulteration practices, etc. with the ultimate view of making the supply raw materials self-efficient, (2). "With regard to. manufac. turing, we have more problems before Us. We shall again engage perts to make special studies of the different processes involved in cot ton manufacturing using the facts and figures gathered from present Operations asa basis. We shall set up standards for factory equipment, operation eficieney, quality, system: triatic accounting, labour "control, ete to which all cotton mills are di expected to conform, s0 that the goal of rationalised operation may fe'reached. While the greater part
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