"City Pelted by Downpour:
Low Plates Flooded Feb, 1
One of the heaviest rains of the season was recorded in Shanghai yesterday. 'The downpour, which was accompanied "by a strengthening Wind, started on Saturday evening and was quite heavy during Saturday night and the early part of yesterday. The wind was particularly strong' yesterday morning and carly afternoon and" blew many. street signs down and damaged. countless umbrellas, Towards evening. both rain and wind subsided somewhat. The wind was from the northeast and cold.
The rainfall measured at Holy Trinity Cathedral for the 24 hours ended at 7 o'clock yesterday evening was 1.26 inches. The lowest tempers ture there, for the same period, was 40 degrees.
Low. places in Shanghai were affected by the rain. At the Race Course ground all games had to be cancelled and already yesterday morning large pools had formed on the grass.
Colder, "improving" weather is forecast for to-day. Strong breezes ure expected. certain safeguards for "apprentices," but there is no definition which states an apprentice is. In December, 1036, the Legislative Yuan enacted a minimum wage law, a pertinent clause which indicates that child workers fare to be pald half the adult wage determined as equitable for the trade fand district," When the opportunity arrives for the application of this law, and should the definition of "apprentice" be eld to apply asin Western countries only to those trades where skills are to be taught, an important step toward reduction of child about could be taken, Application of the Act The Chinese: Government Factory Act applies only to enterprises where more than 30 workers are employed.
is in small shops where less than this number are to be found that unpaid boy workers are frequently used, Tt may thus be seen that a downward revision of the number which constitutes factory under the law will be necessary if young workers are to have the benefit of legal protection.
In December, 1035, the Council approved. a request from the Institute of Pacific Relations for an investiga~ tion into the standard of living of Municipal and other similar employees in Shanghai. The industrial Section was instructed to make the Investigation, in ce-operation with the Institute, and to invite the co-opera tion of public utility companies.
The Shanghai Waterworks Ca, and the Shanghai Power Ca, indicated that study would be of considerable value, specially if it could be assessed to what extent the wages of lower aid workers were sufficient for their heeds. Cordial ce-operation was xziven by both enterprises, Tt'is understood that the Institute of Pacific Refations will make available a sum of money during 1537 which will permit the completion and publication of the report.
"Though unforeseen at the time the request of the Institute was complied with, economic information has been able' to be extracted from. the material obtained -which has been of value to the housing sub-committee.
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