Approximately 1,500 painters Shanghai went out on strike on Monday after having failed in their efforts to secure increased wages.
Their employers having declined accept their demands for increased pay, workers of the Ta Tung Printing Factory walked out on Monday. score, a procedure which always! tends to restrict freedom of express sion. In the second half of the Programme, Mrs. Kydd and Dr. Hal rendered a duet from Donizetti' "La Favorita."
Nearly 1,100 employees on the night shift at the N.W.K. mill, 14 Soochow Road, stopped work for hour on Wednesday, to show the strength, it ig believed, as a protest The orchestral part of the con-"|eert was marked "by considerable variety, the very interesting Tomassini orchestration of Searlatt!'s five with the Soviets on Monday night.
Wharf cooties employed atthe N.Y.K, and N.KK, wharves have the most attractive. The summer Night's Dream" incidental music lent classic authority to the programme, as did also the Borodine its. Despite the sensation of from flower to flower, the evening proved a pleasant musical demanded that their employers! should answer their recent petition for increased wages. According to the Japanese papers, the manage-_ ments have said that they have not received any demands, although they admit that perhaps their com: Pradores have, THe of Public CHIANG Kai-shek is reported to have left Japan in the str. Nagasaki Maru, on Tuesday, and Japanese reports have it that he arrived in Shanghai yesterday. Mr. T. V. Soong. also is said'to have left Hongkong ronte.for Shanghai.
Safety is stated to have armed most of the Chinese Police with revolvers and provided them with new holsters. The men were deprived of their arms by the labourers during the, Nationalist occupation of this port, last March.
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