It is expected that no fewer than 10,000 workers will resume their duties when the British mills open in a day or two. The promised gratuities have been paid to them and the second gratuities will be id a week after they resume work, No disturbance is anticipated when the men return, Coolies are still busy at the various British mills overhauling the machinery and it is anticipated that by to-morrow all the workers will have returned to work. The workers are apparently glad that the trouble has been ended, realise 1g that they have suffered most 'a result of the strike, and not the employers.
'A noticeable feature in connexion with yesterday's activities was that not a single organization or individual appears to have petitioned Gen, Shing Shi-lien to reopen the General Labour Union.
a matter of fact, Gen. Shing yesterday ordered all Labour unions to close within the next three days as he then proposes to send men out to make investigations and to rating Suppress "all illegal organizations."
'A Legal Organization In this connexion it is interest ing to note that the Chinese Seamen's Union are gloating over the assumption that Gen, Shing cannot and will not suppress their union. It is a legal union, they say, and is recognized both' by the Canton and Peking Governmenta, Gen, Shing caused it to be reopened recently because it was an organization which was supposed not te ims. wey say, they have his promise that it will not be sup-Pressed, as it was not one of the organizations which were formed subsequently to the May 30 me eidents.
However this may be, it is the publicly-oxprensed wish thats" Gama. Shing will order the sealing of this place forthwith.
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