The Archive · 1925

Chinese Seamen

According to the vernacular press, the Ningpo and Tientsin seamen Fesolved at a meeting on Sunday to Jsond their men to their respective homes as this procedure would be much cheaper than to keep them in Shanghai.

'The two factions also took a pledge that neither would resume }work before the other or take the Positions formerly held by those of their respective cities, 'Twenty members of the Shanghai Students' Union decided on Sunday to hold a monster demonstration on September 7 in commemoration of the riots in Shanghai, Hankow, Nanking, Tientsin and Canton. It is interesting to note that this date coincides approximately with the usual opening of mission schools after the summer vacation.

Labour leaders paid $40 to approximately 30,000 cotton mill workers on Sunday, and $2 to each of 2,500 B.-A. T. people, while the Hangchow YMLGA., we are told, Jsuperintended the distributing of a dole of $1 each to 1,000° Tram [Company coolies.

An Inflammatory Handbill The following handbill was ad-_ anessed to the ex-workers of British mills:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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