The number of employees of foreign firms returning to work after the strike grows and the situation appears to improve. But} fands still continue to be distributed by the General Labour Union and yesterday several thousand workers received their dole.
Work was being continued in the following mills of the Naigai Wata Ca, yesterday morning:—No. 3, '767, No. 4, 887; No. 680; No. 8, were cleaning the machinery in Mills Nos. 5 cast, 5 west, 13 and 14 of the same " company—yesterday. About 125 of these men were engaged in the same kind of work in the No. 9 Bill.
An officer of the Tan Tsz Wan branch of the General Labour Union has complained to Li Lih-san, president of the Union that the sum of $2, which had been promised to workers of Japanese mills as soon they went back to work, had not been paid to those who had resumed duty. Li promised to refer the matter to the Chinese General Chamber of Gommeree.
The Japanese sailors stationed in the mills of the Shanghai Cotton Manufacturing Ca. have been wit éravm, but a party of them are posted in the Japanese school Pingliang Road.
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