Only one Japanese mill, the Nikko, cotton mill in Pootung, is now, closed and attempts are being made through the Pootung police to reopen it, About 80 men and women representatives of the Nikko mill, met with tae inspector of the Pootung police on Thursday and heard the conditions which the, mili lands are demanding before they will return, 'These include that} three cents a day rice allowance paid to each worker and that each' milland shall receive a loan of!
$0 to tide him over the crisis caused the strike.
Some interesting resolutions were passed on Thursday at a meeting, of 80 ex-workers of the Naigai Wata Kaisha mills who were dismissed in connexion with the strike. After various of the discharged workers had given violent speeches it was decided that:—1, The General Labour Union should issue a subsceistence dole of 20 cents a day to "Teach of the dismissed workers; 2, that the General Chamber of Commerce should negotiate with the management of the Naigai mills and ask them to grant each of the dis-mised workers $200; 3, that assis-"THance should be given to any of the p-: @lamissed workers who. cared to per Hankow to join the Southern Army.
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