The most noteworthy strike which was called in the Chinese Maritime Customs when about 200 Chinese clerks in the Customs Building and xi those at the Jetty walked out shortly after they reported for work. They say that their walkout was the result of intimidation by Cantonese agents, "They gave no indica for work to-day.
Zhi Customs is being run entirely by the foreign staff, who are taking care lof the necessary entries at the Jetty and are doing what they can at the Customs Building, The employees of the Telephone Company also threatened to strike night they had not gone doors are being guarded Intimidators from entering understood that 1 foreign force is being held in readness at a moment's notice to carry during the strike, in 1925 should the operators be intimidated, y|Tt is not believed that they would g0 out of their own volition.
Practically all the Chinese sta of the Riverside Power Plant are fon strike and their work is being carried on by 150 Russians, These are suficiont as a great deal of the Toad has been taken off the plant through the suspension of the mills. enough there has been very little intimidation amongst the wharf coolies, though a large number of these have been thrown out of work through the stoppage of shipping. In the Wayside district the status on the wharf was normal.
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