"Western World Will Have to Look Out'
Manchester, Oct, 27
"Japanese competition in industry will be a small thing compared with' Chinese competition,' declared Prof.
J, Fleure, of Manchester Univer-an address on "East and tes, Such unlawful embezzlement was disclosed in the ease of payment by the Cheng Hsing and the Ching Sheng Silk Factories. Although the labourers' delegates found concerned in the unlawful. "squeezing" have been detained for inquiries, it ts feared that there are many other similar cases which have not yet been reported to me.
"The order is hereby given, Linues the Commissioner, " that, order to prevent similar "squeezing In future, the management of fac-Hones, shops or mills must pay their retirement gratuities directly to their Tabourers and meanwhile make a report to the Social Affairs Bureau which will send officials to supervise such payments.
The workers will be given permission to call on the Social Affairs Bureau at any time to check up the amount of gratuities which they have received with the amounts. re~ corded by the Bureau, thus prevent-Ing "squeezing" in payments.
Should any non-workers try to squeeze" of extort money in connec on. with the payment of such tratuitles, the grieved party must immediately lodge a complaint with the Social Affairs Bureau so that Inquiries will be made and the unjserupulous persons dealt with, concludes the Commissioner's warning.
When the Chinese get going Industry, the western world will have "The Chinese have taste, quality and beauty, and a temperament which makes them work fifteen hours a day when they are really Interested.
Prof, Fleure emphasized that the East was to be regarded a8 a separate civilization, ahd not as an uncivilized region which had to be westernized.
"We, with our trade and commerce, are too prone to think that othe modes of life are "backward, but that quite untrue, 'The East has. its own' traditions and its own modes of life which we must fake into account, "Even in material things, we owe to China many things, the orange, porcelain, the art of printing, and, very likely, the examination. (Laughter) China has been a fertile source of seeds which have germinate ed_in other lands. The philosophical fand spiritual debt to China is also great, An ellvical tendency hai produced there a. society which Been going on for forty centuries one of the world's greatest achieve: monte, As for trade, we are faced with the danger of a gigantic ° Customs Union in the Far East, with Japan as the workshop. The Japanese {themselves may not be able to live northern Avstralia, or in Borneo, Because those regions are too warm, erin Manchuria because It is Gold, but they could fill those regions Qith Chinese and create a gigantic market.
phe industrialization of China is another formidable possibility "AIL in all, the problem of the Far East in relation to the West, iz Derhaps the greatest problem in the Porid: to-day. TE may in a few Yours so force itself uupon_ our atten Yon that we may have to forget some our Internat dimeulties in Europe. "united Press.
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