On Monday, owing to a shortage of material, 150 reeling room hands in the N. W. K. mill, West Soochow Road, decided to suspend operations, bat at the same time they demanded to be paid in full for all the time they might be idle. Seven hundred in the day shift sided with them and called a strike to enforce the demand, but apparently better judgment prevailed, for, although the mill manager firmly declined to part with money without value received, the strikers yesterday resumed' work, The tea merchants, having received a demand for an increase of 10 cents per day in wages, met a. deputation of their employees and offered three cents, This was flatly rejected and further _develop-meats are awaited with some anxiety, Two wornes, after being dismissed from the Ziang Yui silk filature, 6 North Thibet Road, were detained bby the Caapei Police, and 420 of their associates then struck work.
Following this demonstration, the prisoners were released and the rest returned to their task of coping with fashion's demands.
Pooturg women also stirred up a storm in a teacup. One of the fore. women la the Japan-China Cotton Mill found it necessary to repu mand a juvenile employee, and the indignant mother's outburst over the impudence of anybody but herself daring to scold "little Li had the effect of sending 2,000 men on strike. Fortunately Pootung has a police official who surely stands alone in the world, for unaided he stood up to the enraged 2,000, argued with them, and won. He gave no more than a promise that their grievances should receive consideration, yet they returned to work.
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