The laborers in the salt fields are working under the specific environments, influenced by the particular climate and weather conditions there. A great number of them pursue the agriculture as a side job, and under the circumstances there has been brought up a specific labor consciousness like it in peasantry. I have enquired into the afore-mentioned points from the various angles as follows :
1. General labor feelings ;
2. Their consciousness towards the managements ;
3. Their companionship ;
4. The consciousness of their promotion and wage increase ;
5. The security feelings in their positions ;
6. The consciousness of their own works ;
7. The changes in their own jobs ;
8. Their consciousness of the labor law ;
9. Their consciousness of the labor union ;
10. Their upholding of the political parties.
Item 1 : An overwhelming majority of the laborers feel that their works are realy very hard work.
Item 2 : While we find a great number of the workers that support their employers with the warmth of parental affection, there are also no small number of workers who maintain rather non-committal attitude towards their employers.
Item 3 : The laborers works on fairly good terms, but no particular and special relationships exist among workers themselves.
Item 4 : We find more of those who feel stabilized in their works than those who are not so considered, but the difference between the above two is not so much noticeable.
Item 5 : The majority of them are dissatisfied with the present promotion and wage increase.
Item 6 : Many of them are willing to change their jobs for better ones should there be any good chance there of, and there come next those who would like to stay in their own present positions. The difference between the two of the above workers is not very much ; as for their own children, however, almost all of them are disposed never again to let their youngsters follow the same job as their own.
Item 7 : The number of the changes in their jobs is comparatively small and those who have made only one change there of predominate.
Item 8 : They take almost no interest in that sort of the labor legistrations.
Item 9 : The majority of them rely on the labor union, on which they place their positive hopes.
Item 10 : A very great number of them support the Socialist Party.
The salt field laborers have such labor consciousness as above enumerated, and in our study there of we should probe deeply into the matter by comparing it with the general labor consciousness. The general points on the problems for labor consciousness can be devided into : (1) the general feelings for labor, (2) their consciousness towards the managements and (3) the mutual consciousness of the laborers.
The (1) indicates the laborers' feeling for pleasure and pains and their labor sentiments. No. 2 comprises the parental management consciousness, the anti-management consciousness and other kind of consciousness. No. 3 denotes the mutual perental feelings, antagonistic sentiments and other general feelings.
These laborers' consciousness is regulated according to the existense of the laborers and consequently it must first be brought light on the subject of the existence of the laborers, and then look further into the questions of their consciousness.
With respect to these items of the problem, such industial sociologists as E. T. Hiller, L. Warner, A. M. Rose, D. C. Miller, U. S. A., and Kunio Odaka, Shizuo Matsushima, Japan, are investigating the matter from their respective point of view, and as a result of my tracing the valuable researches made by those authorities on the subject concerned, I have now been able to grasp the aforementioned itemes of the question.
Under such circumstances, I have tried to reexamine and scrutinize many of those valuable and interesting questions in comparison with labor consciousness in this brief article.
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