The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
Men
Women

Unskiled Skilled Unskiled Skilled
os.. sP 1aaaseEe: - 10 10 1s g g 70
day. branches Of
industry where lower STILL For the
So 40 $1,000 the getting from $24o $15 the
miserable Many different exploitation
exist China In the central provinces for example, the employers
working whole month"; the workers
money the balance their MAIZE
Tha THE of the Chinese workers truly miserable
made clear by the figures above But
the actual position of things when remember that worker employed
Shanghai cotton spinning mill has spend weeks buy
pair of leather boots months buy of Sheets days
to buy two poundsof pork, etc.
light position things be cleaned
from study of the workers budget Let take family
working receiving dollars To live such family
must make the following expenditures: 80 gs of $S vegetables
tobacco and drink$1 miscellaneous expenditures
inns budget does not single cent for meat or for fats for
that would be impossible take off few purchase
schoobook for the children mention such items alone
But the workers receive these wages
Fines deducted This always makes big hol in their In
slightest pretex
coming only neghbor during the
work, failure carry foremens instructions
they arrange for the employment of the workers Usually they en-
poy their when requested by the
workers The and the workers having only do with
the foremen all financial matters They
money having received themselves from the employers bg money!
which that the of 80 of their
amounn CASUALLY months weeks being employed
Afterwards the foremen continually bbed discharge
not to follow the good relations maintained
Although the workers China inhumany hard they
out existence Not only they unable
crafty their cultural they think
about them Their living conditions bitter unsantary
whatever place newspaper is
used as she n frequently there newspapers to be used at
a find that the working class districts ovepopuae that
several amie forced to live in tiny Young children
left by their mothers unattended at home taken factory
where the children spend their childhood
Hunger drives only and but children
work the factories The capitalists willingly
female and child labor cheap On the 40 percent of
the workers employed the Chinese enterprises the
Chinese textile mills of Shanghai this ST percent
foreign mills 70 the Chinese Shanghai
children comprise 10 percent of the workers employed at the British
mills IT percent and at the Italian and French mills 46
the inuman exploitation of the capitalists compelled
the Chinese workers to take the struggle Several remarkable
tories by the working class
lutonary at heght Wages increased
improved The workers
raised their political status
However, the victory of Kuomntang put
example wages Kwangung fermn reduced by 20
percent lockers down by 80 the lost 10
the list could be abrogaon pre-
ums and rewards has also indirectly reduced Wuhn
premiums paid
first necessity is continually going
Although being output working
hours have been For example hours heightened by
roads and in the arsenal and cartridge factory Kwangung the
so
But this not ALL Mass discharges and the agrarian crisis have
things throughout country only that in wuhan
there than 100000 unemployed; Shanghai
Picking there than 100000
seamen China at
the present time
There is no doubt at all that the workers will commence counter
repe the onslaught the strikes
being undertaken in China today defend existing
there also strikes improve things The working
laying its This compelling Nationalist
the Kuomntang the
to get the workers to consistent class policy
for "peace in industry"
Why Kuomnang basic features
Labor where given prominence
well minimum wageates rest days.
workers etc All subject to host of reservations 1t clear
will for many
a day
The position Of the Chinese workers
workers india semicoonial
All the workers of these equally interested
their conditions Their
They unite their forces struggle against present syem