About 600 seamen, who lost their] employment as a result of the! strike, jete paid $7 each by representatives of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce on Sunday; afternoon in the Coal Merchants' Guild, 26 Foh Vu Road, Chinese City,' A thousand were paid on the previous da:
Avent a hundred and forty. workers employed in the packe 1g department of the Chinese Tobacco Ca, 69 Ward Road, struck, work at 8.30 o'clock on Sunday: morning to enforce a demand for an increase of wages. As a result of an explanation by the management, the strikers resumed work unconditionally at 10.80 p.m. on the same day.
The strike of 300 workers engaged in the making of incense stricks continues. Negotiations are taking: Place between the masters and the strikers, but so far no settleme: t has been reached. pay. A meeting was supposed to have been held in the Chinese City yesterday but it did not eventuate fas there were not enough people present. Strike headquarters have been established in the Pamnters Guild, Representatives of the Chinese} General Chamber of Commerce yesterday distributed strike pay to 800 seamen who lost their positions as fa result of the strike. Some received $8 each and some $16, bringing the total amount distributed up to $3,600, Representatives of the Shanghai Students' Union will, we understand approach Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang they with a view to his ordering the reopening of the Shanghai General Labour Union.
Numerous handbills were posted about Chapel yesterday, all of them ing of a very anti-foreign nature with such remarks as:—"Let continue the boycott. This is the way to conquer foreigners. Let us promote our own indust This is the way to save China Two other cartoons represent foreigners, massacring a number of Chinese students. These bear ar inscription, "Brethren, Let us rise and offer resistance-Students of the Chung Hua Public School."
Employees of the local Chinese gold and silver shops who recently went on strike as a protest against a reduction of wages, met at Old North Gate on Tuesday and decided upon the following means to deal with their masters:—1 Workers shall be given the same pay as before as well as 16 cents extra for each article made; 2 Proprietors must pay for the polishing of all articles made; and 3. Workfers shall pay only $6 monthly for their food, as before.
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