The Postal strike, which was ex: pected for yesterday morning, did not take place after an_allenight meeting between Mr. V. Staplet Cotton, the Acting Postal Commi sioner, Mr. Zing, the Deputy Postal Commissioner, and the representa. tives of the workers. A" compro mise on the workers' demands was reached, which, in effect, means ttle more than that they agree to wait for a fall discussion of thole demands with Mr. Tollefsen, the permanent Commissioner in Shanghai, when he returns from Home early next month.
The demands and the tactics of the workers seem to indiente that there was nothing to strike about, that informer days they would have "petitioned for the slight changes they desire, which, in due course, would have been granted. The questions over which the work: ers have become agitated are. apparently entirely administrative, and involve the growth of the city and the necessity for reorganiza~ ion to handle the greater volume of mail matter which comes. to Shanghai from all parts of. the world. If-the questions are left to the Postal authorities and their own employees there can be little ques: tion but thas Mr. Tollefsen will solution, but the danger here, the textile industry, Ties in ences which seize upon the slightest grievance and turn it into a great industrial. problem,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.