If the strike committee expect an immediate boom in import and export trade sufficiently extensive, and enduring, to absorb these factions, and provide them with -luxurious living, it is indeed good news; proding that, unlike Europe,—the imports and exports can be paid for in herd cash, or are not required on an extended credit basis, Doubtless a large number of Hongkong labourers,- artisans, and ex-students will return to attempt to! regain their original jobs, even if this requires the removal' of their: present holders by intimidation methods. Hongkong: is well.able to cope with any organized attempt to unsteady the new workers, and only' isolated cases of interference-may be expected.
It is difficult to see what prospect of employment lies before the half-educated student who was one day'
school boy, and the next day an administrative - officer, or picket} Teader,- with unlimited powers for} squeeze.
Since 1922 the Government has vatd the strike weapon.-to further A Sort of Purgatory from Which There is No Escape:
Paradise Within a Paradise and Delighted Spectators'
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