There has been no change in the strike situation during the last 24 hours, Although on Monday it was thought that circumstances seemed favourable for an carly resumption by all strikers, the agitators have forced many who had returned that the chief fireman and chief sail-lor had received threatening letters which did not involve the crew lall, but, these men did not wher the crew did. From investigations made it would seem that the Chinese promised no more than to bring the ship to Shanghai. and said they would go out if eallled upon to do so by the Union.
Jardine's chief stevedore, who work to go out agai Strike pay lives in Broadway, informed his and benevolent solatiums are being superiors that he had been threaten-handed out with a regularity which ed, but he told the police, who came! seemed impossible even to the train to inquire into the affair, that he did ed observer some weeks azo, while not want a bodyguai All honour} the labour organizations in Chapel continue their policy—now in defiance of definite military proclama, No trace has been found of the lefght firemen from ithe ste. King eign shipping and lighterage firms that comes off it and your coolies Service and hearts are being checked by strike pickets, wich cargo. as What does it mean?" possible under the existing con To which came the roply:—"If tions. Foreign crews and, in som: Mr. Wang and Mr. Ching and Mr. instances, imported Chinese crews, [Yang say that they want their have manned single steamers, 0 that occasional trips "to Hankow, 280 out of my godown, I say that {eertainly they shall have it, and Tsingtao and Tientsin have been certainly will I give it to them, made.
If after that they get the wind up Yesterday, on he other nand, and pay away an' additional half those who visited the waterfront per cent. to someone who could not noticed an unprecedented activity, make them pay it anyway, what has for coolies were discharging cargo, got to do with me?"
At one company's godowns no less than £200,000 worth of miscellane-Protection Always Ready ous cargo was taken away while "Well, what about foreign cargo?" work at Messrs. Butterfield "Exactly, what about it? Just 'Swire's establishments on this side now I don't happen to want any. was entirely normal; the Pootung' of my own cargo and so I don't godowns als looked -very nearly move it. But when I do want it I ike what they were before May 30. shall move it, And I don't mind An Oficial Communique telling you as a secret that I shall not pay one per cent. on it, because A communique issued from an I incline to the belief that H. M. official source read:—'Navy, the Police and the 8.V.C: are "Work has been resumed st more efficient at_ protecting willing Holt's Wharf but the only cool workers than a fow Bolshevists are who are permitted to work are those who produce a paper certifying.' preventing the latter from working that the owners of the cargo It is undeniable that many Chinese have paid one per cent. of the have paid the blackmail, but ex-value of the cargo—to strike funds, tended inquiries only led to the there is little doubt. This, f identification of. one foreign fi course, means that no foreign cargo as having paid—and that firm. was is doing delivered. 25 foreigners not British, American or Japanese, will refuse to pay. Chinese cargo We understand from a reliable Tokyo, July 22.
Two hundred Chinese members of ithe crew of the Empress of At lia struck on arrival of the lat Yokohama yesterday. The agents Ihave replaced these men with 200 Japanese and will add others at [Kobe, when the rest of the Chinese late expected to walk out.—Reuter's IPacifie Service,
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