During the past week, a serious strike has prevailed amongst the coolies employed by the Cargo Boat Company, the extent of which will be understood from what follows. The example set by the stonomasons about a month ayo has boon followed by others besides the cargo-boat coollys. Those in the employ of the Yang Tai Company, who are paid hi-monthly, received their wages on Thureday without expressing any dissatisfaction. On Friday morning, however, a great many of them failed to put in an appearance, and business has been more or less at a atandstill. The disaffection, it is believed, has been caused by intimidation on the part of the other malcontents; in other words, it another phase of the jealousy and ill-feeling which exists between the Ningpo and Shanghai labourers, On Friday morning a large number of the Cargo Boat coolies assembled in front of the Mixed Court, where they remained perfectly quiet and orderly. As soon as the police business had been. disposed of, five or six of the ringleaders advanced to the Bench, bowed reverently, and presented a petition to Chen, the sum and substance of which was that the coolies employed by Messrs. Wheelock & Ca. pray that His Worship will assist them by negotiating with their employers for an increase of $2 per mouth to their wages. 'Their present rate is $6, from which the foreman deducts $3.50 for their board and a further sum of 30 cents, which the petitioners mutually agree to give the foreman as a cumshaw.' Thus there
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