The Archive · 1938

Our Chinese Dependents

Pere A IPE NEW YEAR CUMSHAWS

ro the Editor of the "Norrn-Cuma Dalny News"

Sm—As an employer of a number of Chinese servants I have read with a great deal of interest the letters which have appeared in recent issues of your esteemed newspaper.

J.A. has apparently overlooked one important point in advocating a Ser-wants' Union; he forgets that if wages were forced up servants would decrease numerically. At the present moment I have on my staff 7 servants increasing to 9 in the summer. Taking the average number of 5 toa Chinese family this gives 45 Chinese Gepending on me for their dally rice.

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