Yo the Editor of the "Nonri-Cutna Dai News Su—Your journal this morning contained many items of interest and Signifteance to observers of the 0 lal scene. You are able to put the caption "A Healthy Scheme" to a comment on the records of Unempio; mont Insurance Funds in Great Britain, Perhaps this will Impress those who, in these long years, have chosen speak about workers in. England as being on the "dole." when they Were drawing upon insurance funds: and used to-say that the country would be bankrupted by payments to those who were out of work. Far from being a "dole" the payments are of course legitimate insurance com= mitments being met. And even if they were " payment from the tional coffers diteer, It Is time we earned that to have a job does not imply superior virtue oF intelligence fon'the part of the holder. Society has an obligation to those whom it does not bless with work. You are able to commend, also. the acknowedgment of the principle of associa tion and collective bargaining in the United Slates. 'There are still some people, and some in Shanghai, who ar the name of "union": to' them Workers on strike are as a matter of course in the wrong. It is to be hoped. that new points of view: will come here, og they are coming, apparently In important. industrialist citoles in the United States. Of me terest also is the clear cut analysis of the difference in the viewpoint of Miss Ploton Turbervill with that of other members of the "mul tso" commission in Hongkong and Malaya, She ces the problem whole, as you yourself did recently when "you referred to other types of young labour in respect of whom " money. passes, Finally, to-day's paper makes re~ ference to the World Textile Cunference to be held in Washington in April, under the International Labour Organization, to investigate who pos sibility of bringing about an ametioration of ¢ocial conditions in connection with the textile industry, China is to, be represented, Few wu! deny that there Is need for improvement of conditions of work in textile mills this country. The world, is so close Knit these days, and factors of competition so intense, that it is not likely that any country wilt be able continue indefinitely to reap the advantage of a prolonged working. shift without being challenged to change, Tt humanitarian consid tions do not insist, world competitors will,
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