The Chinese artisans on strike appeared to have caus: d but little trouble on Monday, possibly in view of the fact that the native authorities have taken the matter in hand. The maas meeting which was to have been held at the City Temple on Sunday was abandoned, Chinese police appearing on the scene and quickly dispersing the assembled crowd. There is apparently the prospzct_ of an amicable settlement, Magistrate Pao Sung-tering and Mr.
of the Chapei and Shanghai city police having intervened. They have approached ths masters concerned, and a meeting for discussion of the men's grievances is to be arranged as quickly as possible, Half o dozen strikers, carpenters by trade, appeared at the Mixed Court on Monday upon charges of intimidation. Three of them visited al fror
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