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... applied to territories under non - Chinese sovereignty . No such request has been received . as Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald indicated in his reply . In the course of a discussion in the House of Commons the same day , on the Supply ...
... applied to territories under non - Chinese sovereignty . No such request has been received . as Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald indicated in his reply . In the course of a discussion in the House of Commons the same day , on the Supply ...
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... applied by the municipal authorities by means of new bye - laws and inspectors appointed thereunder , but the question of their application to native factories and to foreign owned factories outside those areas has to be considered . If ...
... applied by the municipal authorities by means of new bye - laws and inspectors appointed thereunder , but the question of their application to native factories and to foreign owned factories outside those areas has to be considered . If ...
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... applied by Order - in - Council to China , and there is , so far as I am aware , no Imperial legislation under which the local British authorities could take jurisdiction with regard to general conditions . obtaining in British - owned ...
... applied by Order - in - Council to China , and there is , so far as I am aware , no Imperial legislation under which the local British authorities could take jurisdiction with regard to general conditions . obtaining in British - owned ...
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... applied to factories employing child labour in the settlement , having regard to local conditions and to practical considerations generally . This commission was inaugurated on the 22nd June , 1923 , and has just completed its labours ...
... applied to factories employing child labour in the settlement , having regard to local conditions and to practical considerations generally . This commission was inaugurated on the 22nd June , 1923 , and has just completed its labours ...
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... applying to handicraftsmen cannot apply to the factory worker . " Canton cannot yet be said to be highly industrialised in the same way as Shanghai , Tien - tsin , and other places , perhaps owing to its proximity to Hong Kong , and to ...
... applying to handicraftsmen cannot apply to the factory worker . " Canton cannot yet be said to be highly industrialised in the same way as Shanghai , Tien - tsin , and other places , perhaps owing to its proximity to Hong Kong , and to ...
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Page 109 - Also any premises wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain...
Page 29 - Each state should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.
Page 109 - ... (c) Construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gas work, waterwork, or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure. (d) Transport of passengers or goods by road or rail or inland waterway, including...
Page 116 - Commission heard evidence to the efiec« that in some instances contractors obtain young children from the country districts, paying the parents $2 a month for the services of each child. By employing such children in the mills and factories the contractor is able to make a profit of about $4 a month in respect of each child. These children are frequently most miserably housed and fed. They receive no money and their conditions of life are practically those of slavery.
Page 109 - Industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed ; including shipbuilding, and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity and motive power of any kind. (c...
Page 109 - industrial undertaking" includes particularly — a) mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth; b) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered,, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed; including shipbuilding and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind; c...
Page 120 - Convention of 1919 limiting the hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week...
Page 117 - Owing to the presence of the hot water in the basins the temperature of the workroom is always considerably above the normal and the atmosphere is very humid. It was stated that fainting in hot weather is not uncommon. The children earn from twenty to twenty-five silver cents a day.
Page 116 - In many mills the conditions during the night shift are, according to Western ideas, most unusual. Rows of baskets containing babies and children, sleeping or awake as the case may be, lie placed between the rapidly moving and noisy machinery. Young children, who are supposed to be working, but who have been overcome by fatigue or who have taken advantage of the absence of adequate supervision, lie asleep in every corner, some in the open, others hidden in baskets under a covering of raw cotton.
Page 116 - In one instance the length of the shift was given as thirteen and a half hours, and in another fifteen hours. On occasions where there is no night shift the length of the day's work is frequently thirteen hours or even more. In some mills there is a regular one-hour interval for meals, whilst in others the employees take their meals as best they can. The children are mostly employed in the Spinning Department, and in the great majority of cases have to stand the whole time they are at work. It is...