Show ONE FOURTH WORLDS WOMEN IN CHINA seventy per cent employees in shanghai cotton mills mill worn wom en and children working ap twelve hour shifts one fourth ot of the women in the world are chinese of them they are going into industry in large numbers to work woric long hours and for little money moner in Shan shanghai for instance seventy per cent of the employees in the cotton mills are women and children working hours for spinners gp loners are from rix in the morning until six at D night ight find and from six at night until six in the nor homing ning weavers work froni from in he morning until seven at night and nd the lie wages are from ten to twenty cents a lay day hundreds of women are employed in sill silk filature mills standing hour after hour washing cocoons in basins of boiling water in the excessively ces hot rooms necessary for apartments where fine silk Is spun in canton alone there are women in factories at a maximum wage of forty cents a day for women and of fifteen cents a day tor for girls As part of its program of world service for women the national young christian association Is ex pecking to put on its staff of secretaries ret aries in china an expert on industrial du conditions who will develop social work in factories and work to improve conditions for women employees this work will include the introduction of recreation and social octal life among the workers and of health lectures and educational classes |