Sinngtan has been disturbed by: a very bad strike and boycott by the workers' union against some of the Kiangsi medicine shops. The mediate cause of this trouble was the demand by the union that the wharf coolies should be used for the movement of goods from boats te the wharf. The Kiangsi people have their own coolies and refused this demand, and this trouble, Of course, the real goes back much farther than the Aemands of the union, "Tt wa chance to get back some old scores and repay some old grudges, This in the programme every where inthe city and especially in the country. Any one who has an old grudge can get it, paid "e prison and some took refuge in a Kiangsi-Guild 30 li from the city. Some of the leading _mer-charts of Siangtan and many of the wealthiest are Kinngsi people and they have decided that they will close up rather than give in to the ce unjust demands and the untruthful rumours made against them at th time, It looks like 'n movement of Honan for the Hunanes
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