To the Editor of the "NoatH-Cumva Dairy NEWS"
SmI fully sympathize with your correspondent Buzz regarding the inadequate salary most of the "heads" so generously pay their employees, I happen to be in a more unfavourable position than he, for, whether there is H.C.L. or no H.C.L, I have not yet had a single raise, notwithstanding the fact that I am doing a two-man's job in the office.
My "be: side rate, fat-headed capitalists, ways eager to procure maximum labour for minimum pay. I am sure that the present tribulations tha! arè experiencing not at all penetrate the thick hide of many Shanghai employers, who enjoy all the splendours of life and daily wax fat and sleek.
I wonder if the day is nigh when we, labourers will receive measure for measure. When will justice thrive, and when will such exploitation of human labour cease have been heard to question what disadvantage there would be in having three Japanese councillors.
Here is something which is not even a possibility but a fact, Everyone in Shanghai eats; everyone therefore knows how greatly the cost of food has increased and by comparison how serious this has become for persons whose earnings are very small Everyone thus who is ignorant of the fact should be made aware that this is a result of Japanese administration the responsibility for which those administrators cannot escape.
As an embargo on supplies such as wheat and rice and profiteering on every other item of food is practised in areas which the Japanese at present control every Shanghai citizen should be alert to ensure that the International Settlement of Shanghai is kept free from Japanese administration and every citizen should realize that three Japanese councillors instead of two would, under present conditions, be sufficient to produce Japanese control.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.