Chungking. Oct, 21 The Inrger cities in free China, such as Chungking and Chengtu, have become a real paradise for manual labourers and coolies While workers in. the white-collar jelors and people with fixed incomes ore badly hit by the rapid rise Drices, manual labourers and coolies see thie' earnings increase con-
Rickshaw coolles in Chungking now "average eight dollars a day while Uncle drivers and. erattsmé corn ur to $300 por month, "the increased commodity prices axe a large share of these gains, but workers. sll find It possible to send few dollars" a month to their families, especially those rural districts' where a dollar stilt oes quite far.
'Meanwhile. commercial life in Chungking is now typically that. 4 military camp. With the exception of a fow stores selling clothes which fotch tremendous "prices, Chungking shops are of two' types only: those selling food and those eating in cigarettes.
Cigaretios. now considered the Aghting man's usury, are still great demand, despite the fact that brands which the average. Shanghai ander considers "cootie cigarettes cost a dollar per packet of ten here, Business is carried out on a smal scale In these shops. the shop owner Putting out as small a stock as pos
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