"B" Class Employees' Plight the Editor of the "Nowr-Cutxa Datey Neves"
Sw—1_ wonder if the heads of fous firms in Shanghai are aware the that their "B" close these days. We are proaching our Increase in allo ering, so why not break? "One half of the U.S. dollars would "help them: face this terrible situation without sleep= Tess nights.
Buzz Lot of B, Class Employees To the Editor of the *Nonm-Cuina Dany News"
Sin—While Buzz wonders _whe-' ther heads of the. various firms. Shanghai are aware of the terrible plight their local salaried employees fare in these days, 1 wonder a little led out is So. totally adequate to meet the increased de~ mands daily made on the local man thal he has to resort to other means in a vain endeavour to keep his head above water. "Other means" cott be can bring, andthe money Fender, whose rapacious charge' terest, that man it only means a heavier strangle-bhatd on "purse and bide ant more Than there Is the Tittle stem culting down expenses to such a fie Point tu $0 far as food ts concerned That the quest must "eventually. have results, far-reaching,
can fully sympathize with Buzz's footings when he says "we are Uinid bout approaching our employers for fan increase. In its That we haven't for plain' everyday arden "guts"=—but with the fede over our hends that certain neve rivals in town are offering to step Into. various Jobs around: toyon "and work' gratis for from. three. months {o'one year—the very spirit is knock out of us all. Te the various heats fof offices feel that the wid spirit ce-operation fe Kono-or gradually Jdisappearing—don't they ever ask Uiemvelves "Why"? T realize that tuan instances their Mian are tid ration re the vagaries of our focal exchange to head aces brosd—anid "that in most. hu stances {the good old profit and loss account reflects on them at the end of the Year's" Working, 30. that it. believes them' to" show the best: rows, they ean—bat in practically" all instances commodities they represent sire sold in terms of USS oF Sterlinit which fre raised to meet any drop in Local Surely it's not too much to hope {hat some day soon a. faieminded dividual will take the ead and that we "B" people will yet a break!
Shanghai, Apr. 6. aso
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