The Archive · 1921

PEKING TEACHERS' STRIKE

A Not Unreasonable Demand

Peking, April 29.

The teachers' strike has again reached a deadlock, the Government considering that the offer they have made is the limit of their ability. 'The $300,000, demanded by the teachers, was paid over on Monday, and the Government has agreed to appropnate monthly a sum of $220,000, in accordance with the strikers' lates; demand for the Government to meet the entire Education Budget, including all incidental expenses.

This, however, does not fully satisfy the teachers, who are holding out for the setting aside of a definite capital sum as an "endowment fund' and also de* mand that, until such a fund has been established, the Chiaotungpu shall appropriate $220,000 monthly as a first charge on railway receipts. These demands the Government consider inadmissible U. S. and *Chinese Industrial Students Washington, April 28.

The Labour leaders have denounced the cancellation of the arrangement with the officials of the Chinese Merchants' Association, permitting Chinese industrial students to enter the United States. Assistant-Secretary Henning said he had been informed that the scheme would be the means of bringing 30,000 Chinese labourers into the United States.—U. Navy Radio through Reuter.

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