Branch Office: RUE LAFAYETTE opp. Rue Cardinal Mercier A check-up of workers employed in Settlement factories made during the past few days by the S.M.C. Industrial Section shows that a totàl of 86,442 are now employed, as against the figure of 56,736 counted just before the Chinese New Year, and 46,702 on November 13, last. The present number is made up as follow:
Northern.
4.890 Eastern 19978 Central DII.
Western Outside Roads (Inside Defence Perimeter) SES 17,914
86,442
This increase of nearly 30,000 factory workers is almost wholly due to the re-opening of Japanese cotton The number of industrial workers in the Settlement previous to hostilities and excluding Outside Roads was approximately 250,000.
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