Process for the continuous manufacture of vinyl chloride polymers

In a process for the continuous manufacture of homo- or copolymers or graft polymers of vinyl chloride containing at least 85% by weight relative to the total polymer of polymerized vinyl chloride units, in aqueous emulsion, in the presence of at least one water-soluble catalyst, from 1.5 to 3.5% by weight relative to the monomers used of at least one water-soluble emulsifier:

• the improvement consisting essentially of using as water-soluble emulsifier a mixture of (1) at least one water-soluble salt of an aliphatic, saturated monocarboxylic acid of the formula ##STR7## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, being identical or different, each are a saturated, linear or branched alkyl having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and (2) at least one sodium, potassium or ammonium salt of a monoalkylsulfuric acid ester the alkyl radical of which is saturated, linear or branched and contains from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, in an amount of from 25 to 85% by weight, relative to the total amount of emulsifier employed.