Lack of transport facilities, a shortage of funds and the inadequacy of fuel supplies were the difficulties which had prevented: Chinese factories from reopening in Changchow, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, owners said at a recent meeting called by the district magistrate of Changchow, according to Chinese Representatives from 35 factories attended the meeting when the magistrate urged the factory owners to reopen their plants at the earliest opportunity so as to provide thousands of unemployed with work. The stated the authorities were ready to do everything within their power to help both the factories and the workers.
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