Statistics compiled by the police show that approximately a total of 69,582 industrial workers struck within the Settlement during the month of August. The total number out of employment amounted to about 13,208 during the same period, Farther financial support to main: tain the local " strikers Prolong the according to a statement i the General Labour Union, has been Promised by several of the authorities in the provinces while several contributions have been received which they think should prove very useful to the Union, Apart from a contribution of $10,000 from the Central Union of Labour Organizations in Moscow, Failwaymen of the Peking-Hankow and the Canton-Hankow Lines, who have given two days' salary each, have sent some $3,000 to the local labour headquarters for distribution, The headquarters distributed each to 750 workers of the Poo Yih, Hang Chang and Hung Yue mills on Wednesday. Concerts given under the auspices of the General Labour Union inside the Chinese city have netted a little over $9,000, which is exclusive of all expenses, The Labour Union has addressed a letter to Mr. Vu Ya-ching, chairman of the Chinese General' Chamber of Commerce, urging him to collect and distribute the compensa tion promised by the Japanese millowners to the Chinese workers, who were wounded in the Japanese mill troubles last May. Five men, according to the Union, are still suffering from their wounds and the sum of $200 to each, as promised, should be paid at once. Mr. Vu has consented to take the matter up with the Japanese authorities, The Patriot's Purse citizens of the country Who are patriots to support the arars in their national. move:
and to contribute funds for the upkeep of the strikers. The! "patriots" are also asked to find Jobs for the workers thrown ut '9f work since the strike broke out, The Street Unions and the Com eral Federation fs conducting an investigation regarding the. lowes sustained by the Chinese the May 80 incident, with " view to handing it to the' Ministry Foreign Affairs so that a claim for Indemnity may be presented. Apart from the loss of life, the wounding men and the damage to. the shops, through shooting and the play of the fire hose, each hong is requested to send ina complete list of the losses sustained. The amount of goods in hand at the beginning of the strike, as well as those in hand at the present time, must be sent in so that a claim may also be made for loss of business, ete.
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