The last strike of the year was Hed in April and. ended in a complete defeat. The strike was ill-timed and lacked a clear-cut, dramatic issue. The publication of the secret treaties was demanded. But the masses of the people could not understand what was meant by secret treaties. Besides, were they not all published? Did not_ the tion know of the perfidy of the d politicians? The alled upon the motion of the Peking delegates to the ational body and was, notwithstanding, bitterly opposed by the Peking Students Union. All of the mission schools in Shanghai opposed the strike. Nevertheless as a matter of union diseiplin The merchants refused to assist the students because they felt that there was no immediate need for a strike and because the methods of the union in enforcing the boycott had antagonized them. The foreign sympathizers of the students opposed the strike because they felt that the students were wasting themselves on hopeless issues at the wrong time. The result was failure. complete and hopeless disaster.
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