one textile factories are closed down, and fourteen others are only working part time. This stoppage affects twelve thousand hands.
Kyoto porcelain manufacturers' having announced a 20 per cent. cut in wages, owing to the destruction of their markets in the devastated areas, the workmen are threatening a strike as a portest against the reductions:
Similar trouble is reported to be brewing in the Kaneko steelworks in Osaka owing to an announced reduction in wages.
The Tokio Municipality has decided to construct new buildings of reinforced concrete to replace the elementary school buildings destroyed by the earthquake and subsequent fire. The work, which calls for an expenditure on each of Yen 500,000 will be taken in hand as soon as the city's reconstruction. plans are finally determined.—Reuter.
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