The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-08
Industrial Secretary in Orient to Study New
 actory Problem
CHINA INDUSTRY GROWS
Thousands May Be At- tracted to Work, Say
 Observers

oIlAINN1lal, M hdI Su hdl bingham, industrial secretary of the Worlds Young Women's Christian Association, and one of the leading authorities on the status of women in industry all over the world, has ar rived in Shanghai for the purpose of studying the condition of the working women of the Orient.
 She will remain in the Far East until next August and during these month she will travel through China, Manchuria, Korea and Japan. She will go from here to Australia and New Zealand
 Industry Increasing
 Regarding the factory conditions in China-and facories are springing up in Fair Cathay like mushrooms over night-Miss Dingman states that if China will build on the experience of America and Europe she will avoid many of the tragic mistakes of the factory system.
 oHlId, lIdI lOl oO llltbhS yColo had been withdrawn from active participation in the industrial world, has a chance to start clean," said Miss Dingman.
 Thirty years ago China had not one factory or mill as we know them in the West Handicraft in the o11 oh Jyh OTTO master and men were intimately ac- quainted and worked and lived under the same conditions, comprised the manufacturing system of China. The China Year Book for 1921 announces that almost every type of medern in dustry is to be found in China, scat tered so far through about fifty cities
 F"The rate at which modern in dustry is invading this country is shown by figures given in an article by the Minister of Communications, in which 49 cotton factories of 1919 are compared with 1O2 in 1922-to give one example.
 Many Now Employed
 According to an estimate made from an Industrial and Social Survery issued in September, 1922, by M. T. Tchou, of the National Industrial De- partment of the Y. M. c. A., the per centage of women employed in in dustry is 15 per cent, and the num- Der of children under fourteen is 20 per cent.
 "The prospect of those thousands of women and children being drawn into an industrial system without adequate protection from legislation or public opinion is appalling. The conditions under which the indivd- ual worker in China lives and works corresponds to those exsting in Eng land 12O years ago, aggravated by the unusual ignorance of the poor classes, and complicated by the in troduction of the elaborate machinerv from the West.
 Outline Working Standards
 "The National Christian Council, which met in Shanghai in May 1922, recognized the need for labor stan- dard for China and endorsed the setting as goal of the standard adopted at the First International Conference of the League of Nations dealing with hours of work, unem- ployment, employment of children, night work for women and children. safeguarding the health of workers; but in view of the difficulty of i'm mediate application of that standard to the industrial situation in Chna the following standards were adopted and will be promoted by the Church: l. No employment of children un- der 12 years of age.
 2. One days rest in seven.
 3 The safeguarding of the health of workers.
 The Chinese Gamblers of Commerce of Chefoo and Picking have endorsed this standard.