Osaka, Sept, 2.
Found 10 be eighty per cent. as efficient as men, women coolies will be put to work on the railroads, the Osaka Railway Bureau announced here today.
With a ten per cent, decrease in the number of coolies since the outbreak of the China hostilities, coupled with a business boom, labourers' wages were raised from ten to thirty per cent. Yet the Bureau was faced with a labour shortage.
The direct incentive to the present plan to engage women workers is the result Jachieved by the Yonago Station authorities who recent engaged 20 women, who applied from patriotic motives, The Station Master was dubious, but the trial revealed the amazing fact that when used as coolies they are eighty per cent, as efficient as men—Domei, Tue Central Police Training Institute in Chungking, which was reorganized in 1936, held a commemoration of the second anniversary of the event yesterday, states a dispatch to the "Sin Wan Pao." The tommemoration meeting, it is stated, was presided over by the Minister of War, General Ho Ying-chin, and attended by over 1,000 representatives from various public offices and organizations, Following the meeting, says the report, the audience took part in a ceremony marking the laying of a cornerstone for the Chung-cheng Pavilion, to be erected by the officers and men in the institute in honour of its President, General Chiang Kaishek. ce The
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