The labour union has promulgat~ fed fifteen demands, the most flagrant of which is that, if a labourer engaged by a flour mill and if, day after he his aut he is taken ill, he receives full wages for a year, The implica tions are too obvious to require comment. The reply of the larges' mill-owner in Wusih, who was held in durance by the union in an effort to bring him to terms, and who was liberated only by order of the Magistrate, is that he is closing all his mills and retiring to Shanghai.
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