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Show I ASIA NEED NOT SCARE US. Quite often we hear o the very slow wages of Asia and, now and then, Americans are frightened by the cry Of the cheap labor, the products of ;vhlch aro to flood this country. I mere is au uiu iuagc iu tiic ihat out of cheapness comes cheapness. cheap-ness. Underpaid workers produce in proportion to their pay. An American, just from Japan, gives his experience. He says: lit is as hard to get into a Japanese factory as it is to break out of jail. Hustling the East is useless. As wo chatted, we watched Uie clerks work las industriously as Japanese clerks do. 'A Japanese student tries hard to pass his examinations and become a graduate grad-uate so that' he can take life easy knd draw small pay for the rest of his life. "The man I watched did not do one stroke of useful labor in the quarter hour we were there. Ho smoked two cigarettes, played with hie counting-board, counting-board, and put on his coat; but otherwise other-wise ho did no productive labor. His companions did the samo type of work. An American would not pay ton" cents a month for all they did while we were there." |