The Archive · 1935

Unemployment Problem in Peiping

Peiping, Sept. 17 The vernacular papers here are iving facts illustrating the serious nature of the unemployment problem in Peiping. A small business house inserted advertisement for an office assistant at a starting salary of $10 a month, rising to $15, and received no less than 324 applications, being from women. An analysis revealed that 15 applicants were untversity graduates, 18 graduates of middle schools, and 16° teachers in primary schools. Their ages ranged from 17 to 54 years. Of the 54 women applicants, 13 were junior middle school graduates—Reuter. day visit of His Majesty, forming a moving illumination. Many houses were to be illuminated, that of the Harbin Exchange Committee being a blaze of light from the ground to the root, Two grand processions took place in the town, one in daylight which marched from Foochiatien to the Municipal Gardens in Harbin, a walk of about three miles, and the other at night with lanterns and torches in the Manchoukuo section of the city only.

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