Will the local railway employees now declare a general strike?
Rumours were current on Thuraday in Chinese circles that there is luntest in the ranks (probably gaused by the Bolshevik agitators) and that a general strike would soon be declared. The men claim that, the employees of the Chinese wages, there is no reason why they, who are also under the control of the Ministry of Communications, should not be granted higher wages view of the increase in the cost of living. They consider that they at Toast should be treated on the same basis as the postmen, According to information received on Thursday representatives of the employees of the Shanghai-Nanking, Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Tientsin-Pukow Lines are to hold meeting at Kiangwan on Sunday afternoon, to which the various stations have been asked to send delegates.
Questioned with reference to matter on Thursday, Mr. C. L. G. Wayne, traffic manager of the Shanghai-Nanking and Sha Hangchow-Ningpo Lines, said that there was up to the present no trace of any impending trouble and that the employees were working usual, There was a great deal at stake if the men struck and the m realized that this would be thei ess. The scale of wages on the rail-was a regular one and the sion for complaint in Sincere's and Wing On's Employees There were rumours on Thursday night that the shop assistants and other employees of Sincere's and Wing On's were contemplating the declaration of a strike, but after considerable inquiry both among the workers and the managements we were unable to secure confirmation.
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