In the following pking the number coolles for Manchoukuo had again dropped very heavily. Those who still went there tried to overcome the remittance ban by buying goods in Manchoukuo and taking them back home. with them, This, too, wi stopped, and the coolies were deprived of their hard-earned purchases on the score of their being smuggled goods, This was the last straw.
The majority of labourers went to work in Manchoukuo for the sole Durpose of supporting their families. Very few of them wanted either to seltle—even supposing they had been able to comply with the thousand and tone Japanese regulations in order to) do so—or to gamble away all. their earnings there, If they could not! get their savings to the families, there was obviously no point in going there for work, As a result, the stream of labour immigrants con tinued to dry up until it became a mere trickle, 'The Manchoukuo authorities, ser! ously perturbed at last, after' much trouble managed to persuade the Pow-lers-that abe in Tokyo to agree to allow the Manchoukuo labourers to remit home at least a portion of theft earn—ings. But it was too late. The Chinese peasants have become suspicious, and the formerly so popular tmmigration has fallen into.disfavour with them, "For Benefit of the Chinese"
Some other Japanese controlling body-—it not In repentant Manchou-Kuo, then in north China—was, cer tain {o introduce some quite original restrictive and unreasonable measure, Better to stay at home, And who can say they are wrong, having Te~ gard to the entire lack of teamawork among the thousand and one differ~ fent Japanese missions, commissions, societies, monopolies, and what they' all are, which claim to be controlling orth China for the benefit of the Chinese?
Anyhow, this year the coolie im~ migration has fallen off worse than fever, although the Japanese in Man-Jchoukuo actually require much more labour than in former days, The heavy industries alone claim to refquire over 1,000,000 labourers for their wonderful Five-Year Develop-_ ment Plan. They have been getting considerably less than one quarter of that number. In fact, the labour situation fas become so'alarming that the authorities have had to send a ind special delegation this month to Peiping, under the leadership such an' important person as. the
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