To the Editor of the "Nonru-Canwa Dancy News"
Sm—In the hope that better employment opportunities for the local business girl might evolve from a plain, statement of conditions, will you please publish my letter te thi Jserious problem confronting the Shanghai-born girl with years of business experience, dependent upon employment for sustenance, in her search for work to-day, She has to contend against three competitive elements 1, Local girls of well-to-do parents, who, owing to their contact with employers, are engaged inthe place of girls who really need work.
Married women, whose husbands possess adequate Income, but who work merely to pass the time 0 add to their pocket money. This extra "pocket money" is often more than the salaries pald to other girls for a livelihood, Girls from abroad, There being no protective restrictions against the influx of the unemployed, an appreciable number of girls from various countries, mainly American and British, come 10 Shanghai "for work," and are chosen in preference, although not always superior, 40 local 'The "foregoing, coupled with the [depression in business which is eatisjing certain firms to close down and others to retrench ty the curtailment lof their stof or by the employment Jof cheap labour, is' placing the local girl, in search of a. salary enabling her' to live without fear for the future, in' a very real. dilemma, Unable to compete with the influx Jof girls from abroad, who are given {the highest salaried situations, she 1s
Jexistence, to accept salaries and poslcompelled, in order to maintain her {tions rightly belonging to the low of girls leaving school to take up a business career, thereby making it more dim cult for them to obtain employment.
If the employer, whicn supplementing his staff, would eliminate from his choice of likely applicants, girls Jnot in need of employment and girls }who are not Shanghai itis, he would do much to ameliorate the unemployment and. distress now prevalent Jamong local business gits, 'A Suancuar Buemess Gin. Shanghai, Aug. 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.