The employees of mills of the Nagai Wata Kaisha Company are! still on.strike, that is the original six which were affected, but although agitators made strenuous efforts to induce other workers in this com-any's and other plants to join them they met with no success. " "Those employed in Yangtszepoo came out with a definite statement to the radicals to the effect that as long as there were no strike funds to keep them if they struck, they would not strike. Greater optimism is felt in official circles over the breakdown in the plans of the Bolshevist element, coupled with the determined stand of other mill units, The management of the Nagai Wata Kaisha sai yesterday that they would continue to await a general resumption, On Monday night picket parties eluded both the Settlement and Chapei police and made efforts to the immediate, vicinity of the mills, but met, with little success. Poster parties plied their trade and large numbers were torn down by the police.
The strike committee of the N.W.K, workers, determined to make what some believe to be. the last stand, have rented a house in Chapei for temporary headquarters, calling it the Consultation Office of Workers on strike.
On Monday 90 workers met la Chapei and decided to form a protection ary corps of 40 members, whose duty would be to protect the strike committee. They urged that each should be picketed by parties 50 strong, and that pickets sboulg be placed at ferries, meeting places and mills. Later four of the main strike committee applied to the Chinese police for protection from the strikfers, to which the inspector replied that they should be careful, commit]
acts of violence and refrain from attending or calling meetings.
More than 800 employees of the (Chung Hwa Book Ca., are still on. strike ax are 8,700 at the Nikko Mill _in Pootung, while the lockout of 2,760 hands at the Ewo Mill continues.
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