The Archive · 1929

Deadlock in Sun Sun

AFFAIRS, Store Closed by Provisional Court Order a result of an order by the Provisional Court restraining the directors and managers. from ercising their functions until a dispute regarding the management of the Sun Sun Ca, has been settled, deadlock occurred in the affairs the department "store. and ended in the store being closed An application for this order wat made by Mr. Chang Nich-yung Chinese lawyer, acting on behale of shareholders inthe company. ad the former manager, Mr. 8, K. Law The hearing was ex parte. On Fri-ay afternoon, fr. S.K. La, Mie, "Chang, and." 400 striking and. dissatisfied employees of the company entered the promises to cnaure thatthe order was carried ut. The Chief Inspector in charge of Louza District than intervened to preserve the porce and Me. Lau and Mtr. Chang were perwaaded t0 re: Train from executing the order immediately.

Their 400 followers romained om the premises, however, until the store was closed at 5pm. The floors were locked in the presence of Svikers and loyal employees and the Strikers affixed a large brass padiocke aver the company's lock on the main fate to ensure that the building was not reopened A number of loyal workers returned and tried to get non Saturday, but finding the gates Jocked, hung about until the ey Potice fron Louza the alert to prevent clashes between the two factions and very" litle trouble recurred, Delegates of ther Employees Union of the Sun Sun Ca. called on the Shanghai Disteiet_ Kuomintang land on the Bureau of Social Affaire find. requested thatthe Comtiasioner of Foreign Affairs should be "asked to" approach the. Shanghai" Municipal "Count, demanding that they should retain from interfering with the affairs of the company' arhich employe. them. The spite, they said, was purely internat one and did not warrant interference on the part of the Provisional Court or the Couneit,

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