Hongkong, April 3.
The Chinese employees in the engineering trades here have demanded an increase of 40 per cent. in their wages. The Hong. kong & Whampoa Dock Company diand the the Taikoo Dockyard Engineering Company have com. ceded as from April 1 an additional 9} cents per hour with consequent additions of 2) cents per hour on overtime at ordinary pay and halt. pay and 3 cent per hour for overtime at double pay. This concession apparently has not satisfied the fitters and turners at the shipyards who did not turn up for duty this morning. A sympathetic movement which may affect other industrial establishments is feared.—Reuter.
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