'The workers thus far have done very little in sabotage, except to amain on the job without doing, any work, which means that they' attempt fo draw pay for doing!
ing. As most of the work in the mills is piece work, this method cannot be successful as payment is on the basis of production. 'The effect of the workers remaining in the mills, while fellow-workers in snather room of the same mill are on strike, has given the student of the Labour situation an opportunity' to study the attitude of the worker. On the whole, the workers have no cause for strikes at this time, although it is obvious that strikes! will continue for years until the hi re than the present minimum wage has reached a
average until an eight-hour {day becomes general. All employ-_ ers of labour realize this general tendency, but they also recognize that the advances made during this!
car have been so considerable th; the workers on the whole are! satisfied and are not anxious to strike. They have grievances and would rather settle them as previously by petition and negotiation. The "cell," however, brings pressure to bear upon workers who ere openly opposed to the strike.
Thus far, on the whole, social pressure has been unavailing, no strike having taken place this year any of the mills as a whole, even the Japan-China Cotton' Mill strike Pootung worked while Shanghai struck and, at the Yangtszepoo mill, workers in adjoining buildings continued to work while 500 struck in one shed. The social pressure has been in the other direction t the strike. Who:
that will continue depends principally on extraneous issues, largely political, which have no [direct bearing upon the workers but which give the "cells" a talking Tt is suggested by some employors that the Communist organizations are consciously calling small strikes to irritate industry and to Jead to some incident in one mi which will outrage all workers in all mills. This is the sort of provocation which is advocated. by, Communists as a weapon against what they term the willing slavery vf the working class. It is. undoubtedly being practised against Japanese mill-owners in Shanghai but thus far with very doubtful effectiveness.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.