Workers' Demand for a Huge Increase Granted: Followed by Faculty's Request {o Reconsider Terms of Agreement: Unionists' Preachment in Letter There have been many rumours} and a few letters in the press from various correspondents regarding. difficulties at Shanghai College with the Labour Union. Friends of the College are anxious to know the ex. fact state of affairs. The following statement is made by a reliable authority who has an inside knowledge of the situation, Future developments are awaited with interest and will be reported from time to time.
The Labour Union was organized]
ug March and forcibly enrolled in its membership all the janitors, gardeners, cooks, clerks, messengers, ete, as well as the personal servants of the members of the faculty, beth foreign and Chinese. About Apri 1 they presented an ultimatum to the president of the College, containing 22 demands, requiring, increases in wages of from 10 to 80 per cent., also food, lodging, and a substantial reduction in working hours, as well as large future inerezse in wages, and many detailed demands concerning holidays and leaves of absence on occasions of births, weddings, and funerals, etc. ' The total demands of the Labour Union would jeent., the majority of the labourers receiving increases of from 25 to 50 per cent., but modifying some of the other demands, and proposing rather humbly these terms to be the final agreement between the College and the Labour Union, To this letter the following reply has been received from the Labour Union:
Dear Siesi—
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