There is very little change in the Jabour situation, The trams did not within 80 yards of police station, but the asas clever enough to set of a run yesterday but a skeleton ser~ vice may be expected to-day. The fitters und mechanics, numbering about 150, were paid on Wednesday and have' abandoned. their original demands. It is stated that they are prepared to return to work if the seals, placed on the Tramway Employees' Club premises by the S. M. Police, are removed. They further demand that strikers be paid full wages while on strike. The company has notified their workers that if they fail to return to work this morning, they will be liable to dismissal, The N. ¥. K, Wharves In the ease of the N. ¥. K. strike! of coolies and godown keepers, a Targe number have returned to work unconditionally and the handling of cargo ut the wharves is being carried in normal times. It would therefore, that the firm was entirely justified and suc ce 'Two, coolies who were employed by the company and who were kidnapped by labour pickets on Decem-Ber 1, and detained in the labour union' headquarters have been. ro-Jeased after signing an undertaking not to return to work until after settlement of the strike Another strike was reported yesterday. The employees of Chinese second hand clothes stores, numbering about 2,000, caused work and now demand more wages. The French police arrested an in" timidator in connection with this strike, Tu connection with the strike of! Jewellers and goldsmiths' employees, 'a number of these have returned tributed by workers of the Nanyang Tobacco Ca,
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