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...Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT 30,000 INVADERS...
...years ago the Journal became exercised over the plight of local laundrymen who were required to pay fees not only to the Benevolent Association but also to the city, under a new ordinance. Editor Jee, who had taken a degree in Political Science at Haverford College, Pa., exhorted the laundrymen to Organize. They did, and soon ran afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged...
...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...
...tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation. This would shunt all traffic to the dormitories, where it belongs and leave the pavement before Widener free for initiations and the police escort of the visiting ambassador from Liberia...
...same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...