Osaka, Sept, 2.
Found to 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—Domei Mexican Trade Mission
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