The Archive · 1926

Demand for Chairs

Another strike broke out yesterday "morning in a: Japanese cotton tail, Which fs of importance because of the tactics employed by the Tabourerg and the wnusoal nature of the demands. ALB am, the Workers of the No. 9 mill of the Naigai Wata Kaisha, which is engaged in both spinning and weave ing, made the following demands: 1. A'N10 per cent, increase; 2 The removal of the Chinese fore-

9, That chairs be provided for the workers; The Naigai Wata Kaisha operates 12 mills in Shanghai, which _employs approximately 15,000 Yabourers. In the No. 9 mill there are 2,220 labourers, 1,400 in the weaving shed and 820'in the spinning room. The workers romaine in the mill until 4 pam, bue did not work, following the syndicalistic programme of sabotage whith is becoming popular among—the workers in Shanghai, None of the other workers in the Naigai Wata Kaisha mills in Shanghai struck, The night shift in the No. 9 mill ame on as usual and after some delay went to work at 8 p.m, The strike therefore is not only localized within this company's plant bat ied to the day workers of the! No. 9 mit,

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