At a meeting held at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce on Friday it was resolved that the local Chinese merchants shall resume bus-mess to-morrow, the larger banks which are conducted on foreign lines to resume a day Inter.
At the meeting there were 110 del-agates, representing 76 Chinese pub-Tie organizations, including the Chamber itself, Street Unions, Student Federation and labour and commercial organization They met to receive a report of the negotiations between the Chinese com-lioners and the delegates ai pointed by the Diplomatic Cor to consider the question of resump-of business.
Mr. Vu Yi-ching, chairman nf tthe Chamber, reported on the negotiations, after which a resolution w: pointment ove the fact tha: the negotiations had ended so unsatisfactorily and that justice had not been done.
With reference to the strike, it was pointed out that this had been extending, and that it had gone on for some time, and that the Chinese merchants suffered greatly as the result. The strike was a patriotic movement pure and simple and was carried on as an expression of the \pproval of the Chinese residents shanghai over the Nanking Road affair. It would be better that local merchants should take a united stand in the matter; ther was suggested, and agreed, that the gene should temporarily be suspended and business resumed as from the first day of the Chinese moon (i.e, tomorrow, June 21). At the same time it was resolved that merchants should form themselves into strong bodies and advocate the use of Chinese national products.
After this, it was decide Temporarily to suspend the and resume business but to fight for the 13 Demands which the Chamber had lodged with the Consular Body (2) Temporarily to suspend the strike and resume business pending a settlement of the Japanese mill strike question; and (3) To raise funds for those who have been pat-lotic and those who have been thrown out of work as the result of the strike.
After appointing seven delegates to report these decisions formally to the commercial federations and street unions, as well as the student union, and to secure their views, the meeting adjourned.
It is understood that the responsible Chinese commercial and banking organizations have signified their willingness to support the Chamber and to back it in any decision or decisions which it, may determine students will resume their sre places are still open for them, It is even said that the seamen will go back to work to-day, but in view of the strike having begun in Hongkong this report should be received guardedly.
Chinese tenants in the Settlement have, we understand, sent letters to different Chinese landlords urging them to let them off the present month's rent, in view of the strike and all that "patriotic" Chinese have suffered.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.