'A declaration issued by the Kiangsa Headquarters of the [Chinese Relief Society, follows:
'All the employees of the Shang. hai Tramway Ca. went on str on December 1. To speak plain-Jy, they have gone on strike owing to oppression by the Impenalists, the sealing of the employees' lub and the refusal of reasonable demands which' they made. "Immediately after the strike began, two persons were Killed by the British Imperialists, was not an accident and neither was it a trivial affair, The measures against the labour. ers are part of a well planned scheme by the Imperialiste and capitalists to assassinate labour. ers end impede the common people's emancipation movement. Such actions are of a counterrevolutionary nature. The labourers are struggling for the revolution. By killing and arresting the tram employees, the imalistic militarists of Shanghai hope to frighten the labotrers, The fight between the op-Pressors and the oppressed has started. We should all support the tram strike interests of humanity. You, the oppressed, must rise up, and Overthrow British imperial ism!
Uphold huma Support the tram employees strike!
Help the Chinese peasants and Inbourers to rise Long live the success of the emancipation movement of the oppressed classses!
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