Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 11 | Trade Unions Gaining Ground through China

Trade Gaining Ground Through China Sudden Trend Toward Organization Or- Or Said to Be Due to Progress in Handicraft By RANDALL GOULD United Staff Correspondent PEKING Jan 22 Chinas rapid progress from the handicraft to the Industrial age Is bein being accompanied In the great industrial districts of central China by a sudden trend toward labor unionism which obServers observers ob- ob servers find highly important Statistics compiled by the Chinese government bureau of economic Information Information In- In formation showed that labor unions In the Han Wu and great centers cen- cen tens of the Yangtze river valley valley- numbered a membership of more than last November and that the work of organization was being pressed wIth great speed since the recent occupation of these cIties by the forces of red Canton Until the present year eal organization tion of the unions was forbidden In Inmost Inmost most or of the districts while the Idea and significance was foreign to the coolie class from which factory hands were recruIted 1 MachInery has come Into China so rapidly that It Is not surprising that the people have been wholly unprepared unprepared pared to consider this great change from the period only a matter or of months ago when almost all work vork was done In the homes Jn In 1920 the he coolies who pulled ri went on strike against the Francaise dAu et de e which rented vehicles to the pullers and argument over the amount of rent to be paid the to orMen's or- or Mens Men's union Two years later came the Union of Cotton Dealers Dealers' Dealers Dealers' Deal Deal- ers ers' and the Printers Printers' union During 1926 1026 progress progress ress of organization was rapid particularly par par- after the southern troops from Canton had occupied the district dis- dis In September The pullers pullers' union In now number members whIle there Is a long list of other unions Including of cotton cotton cot cot- ton mills tobacco companies and printing shops domestic servants wharf coolies restaurant waiters cask makers coal carriers bristle makers barbers oil mill workers and a variety of other ether toilers toIler Free schools are to be established for for workmen under the various unions and other constructive work Is pl planned nned