To the Editor of the "Nommit-Curwa Datcy News"
Smm—Parents must have noted with. considerable pleasure your frequent, references to the exploits of Shang-hal youngsters in the various theatres of war. This helps to prove that when given an equal chance these boys can hold their own in any com> pany but there are those in Shanghai, who, to sult their own ends in matters of employment, elect to think otherwise.
Extracts from your leaderette of Friday will stand repetition. It was stated inter-alia:
Avery substantial, number Shanghsicborn, or, bred young men Gnd "wame going their biting the struggle, against the forees of evil gua "It ts bellevea, when the whole are known. thatthe oral wil considerable surprise 10 help to Aprea Smongat those anth whom they" aren, Shangial are gang' worthy part in the tight for democracy.
History is repeating itself, for did not Shanghai-born Britons show the same spirit of self-sacrifice in the last war? They proved themselves then to be Britons in every sense of the word.
substantial numbers Shanghai Britons have given ample proof of their sense of duty and their pre-poredness to make the greatest sactifice of all: to tay down their lives that others may live.
Many of these youngsters are in the R.A. F. to achieve that they hod to compete with the flower of British youth and they were not found wanting.
The numbers of these youngsters who have gone home to risk their lives for their country. reflects the greatest credit upon them asa whole, particularly as they showed a com= plete disregard for their own future interests.
When it is all over—when these boys come back from a battle-searred Europe, as they have done before will they still be regarded by a cer= {ain type of Shanghai employer, just Shanghai boys, to be exploited in Such matters as" conditions of em: ployment, "remuneration, ete.; will they find the same doors to opportunity closed to them, and the Some miserable basis of commencing. salaries and scales of advancement These youngsters "have proved their worth: Init will offending Players now realize that a) more wuman sense of equity is long over due, and discard a contemptible attitude which they seek to impose. upon young Britons born in Shanghai The only fault appears to be, that the parents of these boys came out to Shanghai to make ita more comfortable place for those who were follow.
'The' attitude adopted by cert Shanghai employers is as far removed. from the ethics of democracy. as the poles; yet it is democracy, and all it stands for, that these Shanghai young: sters are now fighting, just their fathers fought the last war—to ever attempts to dispense the same.
(bein the British Empire If she brand of democracy which appears to pass muster in Shanghai, In any-of our. Colonies the same titude towards those born in the Particular territory would be treated with absolute derision,
Fied people were acquainted with the before leaving home, young mar-condition, the place would soon rin, ary of Shanghai-born Britons, and herein Ties the essence of the injusice, as these are the Britons who Supply. the material for sustained ex-
Tt is a subject which may yet come home to roost in the House of Commons.
tis to the credit of a limited num= ber of firms that they mee no dis:
motion as for the rest; they will be able to recognize themselves, "Let me say' in conclusion that I have no personal interest in the subject whatever. Neither was T born Shanghai but it happens that 1 do Ienow the difference between contracts made with juniors if brought out from Home and the amount of money. which is saved by doing the other thing—for the want of a better word it exploitation, hal, Aug. 3.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.