Though the number of strikes ili each of the last two months rea mains practically the same, a wide margin is revealed by figures showing the number of workers affected. Approximately 66,600 workers went oon strike in March, while the total did not exceed 9,400, Furthermore, all of the April strikes were limited in scope, none of them having given rise to' a complete standstill of any industry throughout the whole ity of Shanghai, as was the ease of the silk latures strike in March, When compared with the figures for April of last year, the improvement may yet become more notice able, Twenty-two strikes took place in April, 1927, involving "total number of 116,000 workers. However, the two cases under compar-sion' are not exactly parelld, for the conditions that had obtained during the first few months of, 1927 were rather extraordinary, due to strong labour agitation, The number of factories and stores affected by the April strikes totally 112, All of them are Chinese-owned except the Tobacco Products Corporation and M. Block & Ca. which are of American notionality.
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