17 Chinese Charged at Mixed Court: Inciting to'Riot and 4 Smashing Machines Seventeen more Chinese appeared at the Mixed Court on Thureday" on charges of (a) being leaders of a strike and inciting the workers of the Dong Shing Cotton Mill to strike, contrary to the special Police laws: (b) causing a riot and damage to property and injuring certain persons, contrary to the Chinese Provisional Criminal Cod and (e) being undesirables and menace to the peace charged with publishing and post ing up on the walls of certain Quildings certain notices and pamphlets tending to cause a breach of the peace. He also was charged us an undesirable.
Mr. E, T, Maitland (Prosecuting Solicitor) said that the case arose out of trouble at the Dong Shing Cotton Mill. As a result of the tarrest of the first accused for post ing pamphlets, some of the workers went to the mill offices and asked about him. They were told he had been taken to the police station for inquiries, and a strike was thereupon called, All the hands, with the exception of some 250, in the ting spinning room stopped work and the ringleaders armed them.
Ives with various weapons and a 'melee ensued. About $100 worth of damage was done to the mill machinery and some of the ployees were injured. 'The 18th a cused, said counsel, was the real cause' of the trouble.
The evidence was then commenced and Mr, Kishimoto, the manager, described the trouble. He saw 10 persons armed with iron bars smashing the machinery. He could not recognize any of the accused ax being among those present as they were too far away.
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