Shanghai, San, 21. IHE blockade of Shanghai has moved in two directions, In addi~ tion to hindering exports to the interior, control has reduced arrivals in Shanghai of raw materials from nearby provinces, according to the annual report of the Industrial and Social Division of the Shanghai Municipal Council.
The first section of the report, just released for publication, reveals that there were comparatively Jess new industrial, developments in 1940 than in the two previous years, the dynamic reconstruction of factories giving way to a more static condition last year, which saw industry in a depressed state at the close of 1940.
The second section of the report will be published in a few days, " The report of the sections of the Council concerned also states:
"On October 16, 1040, by decision of the Council, the former Industrial Section of. the. Secretariat was Separated from that Department, and eorstituted "an Independent. organ lurider the name of the Tedustrial and Social Division, This decision brought {o-a close the' preliminary stages in the development of a new emphasis Council organization, namely the building up of an administrative me strument with the general alm improvement in. the" livelihood and conditions of occupation of workers, The Industrial "Section, dating from 1988, has had eight years of existence, a unti 1089 concerned itself largely With efforts to. improve" physical conditions In factories. Within the Tost three years. it has moved nto the fields of Industrial" relations, technical training, social statstls, Industrial welfare and child. proteetion, Within the new Division, there fore, Sections bearing. the names of {hese phases of work have been oF-tanited, and, In this report for the first ime, the work included in their fcope is presented ay a function "of the now Sections.
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