No Recognition of Unions or:
Further Party: Settlement Left to Consul Conditions in the Japanese, mills lsinee the commencement of the Istrike have made little development land at the present time all Japanese mills, as is the case with other foreign and many Chinese mills, are at a stand still. Attempts have been made on the part of various; Chinese mediators to bring about)
A private watchman employed by'some sort of settlement between' a large company in the Wayside the mill owners and the workers district reported that 15 or 20 men but here again the situation has took him from his home in Baikal remained a dead-lock as the strikers Road to the Labour Union in Poo-'ure persistent. in. their altogether night. Warned that he would be'agement on principle have refused Kidnapped by men in a motor-car.'ty pay wages during the period of he strike or to take back all workers indiscriminately. As matfers stand at the present moment jail Japanese Mill owners in Shanghai have agreed to refer all negotiations to their Consul who will carry out a settlement through ithe Commissioner of Foreign' Affairs. The mill owners hav taken attitude so that the Iscttlement might be brought about in a concordant and definite marine [The presence of so many me: jswho have attempted to approach the mill owners, though many of lthiem have apparently acted in good faith, up till now has made any! hope of a settlement an impossible lone.
Beside this ion which hi atives of nine Japanese mil China who have formed an association met at the Osaka Hotel, Japan where a number of resolutions were Ipasved. The mills represented Iwera the Dai Nippon Mill, the Toyo Mill, Shanghai Silk Spinning Ca. [Mill, Shanghai Cotton Manufactur-'Mill, Mil, ing Ca. Mill, Toyoda Mill, Tokeve
and the Dong} iShing Mill. At this meeting it was jrerolved that the Association wil tot recognize any mille workers) unions now in existence until the laws governing labour unions and preservation are enacted by the Chinese Government and, what is more, until they become' effective. [The Association do not agree to increase wages after the workers return. The payment of wages! will be made according to big money calculations and as already stated tions will be done through Consul. So far negotiations have made little hea Tt seems more than probable the Chinese union leaders and lisbour representatives have not come to any definite agreement between themselves and their representative the Commissioner of For eign Affairs as to the nature of their
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