'Asked what he proposed to do' concerning the "General Labour} Union, Gen. Shing requested the "North-China Daily News" representative to make public the fact that the General Labour Union was closed'and would remain closed. He did not propose to permit its reopening. The two officials of the Union who had been taken into custody "had been handed over to the District Procuratorate for trial. /Gen. Shing said that he could personally have dealt with them, but he desired that the matter shoald be treated legally. He would have closed the General Labour Union a long time ago, bat in view of the many -petitions which he had received and the fact that many Inbourers had not returned to work, he decided to postpone the, closing of the Union.
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