Chinese employees of Chinese firms continue to make life miserable for their employers numerous individual instances, but the general trend of the situation at the moment does not lead those in official quarters to believe that: the unrest will spread to foreign firms again. The former supporters of agitators and labour leaders are now faced with similar demands as ]were presented to the firms of the The li 8,000 painters who ere are sti refuse to return to work under the old scale of wages, and although the masters and apprentices are trying to carry on, workers have approachef the latter class, and it is believed that they will join the
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