Chinese Works Chiefly Involveds, San Sing Men Still Out Dyers' Offer Refused Just az in the month of May lant year, labour troubles are continual= ly breaking out again this year, although on a very much smaller scale so far. Perhaps 7,000 opera tives in all are now away from their work, while another smaller strike is expected to occur shortly. Jo: panese and Chinese establishments are affected.
Last Friday afternoon a worker at the Naigat Wata Kaisha DUill No, 15 was dismissed from the carding room, According to reports' som 10 others took up his cause and him to the office, Hetw they broke up furniture and Sittings to the value of $50, The police from Pootoo Road station arrested four of the alleged ringleaders, but turned them loose again when the management would snot press a charge. At 45 o'clock the entire day shift struck work and refused to work on Saturday, Yesterday the mill was closed. It is stated that the night shift is not affected.
The strike at the San Sing Cotton Mill (Chinese-owned) at 87 Yangtszepoo Road continues ua+ abated. The situation is worse now than several days ago, for the whole staff, 3,602 persons, are out.
Although the master dyers met and offered their striking workers one dollar a month increase and 60 cents allowance for rice, the mea refused to accept the proposition.
There is considerable unrest among 800 sunshade workers, Some expect that they will walk. out, Nagai Wata Kaisha Stoppage Practically Ended Of the 721 employees in the Nagai Wata Kaisha No, 15 mill, 146 Gordon Road, who struck work on May, 7, 966 returned at 6 pam, on Bon-day. These men previously were on, the day shift, but now have transferred to the night shift.
The strike was started in an attempt to enforce a demand for the re-instatement of four men who had been dismissed. Two of these men been taken back, nantao dyers and the San Sing Cotton Mill handy continue on strike, but it is of a speedy settle Egg Testers Cease Work in Yangtzepoo Plant The strike in many of the smaller Shanghai plant and factories continues to be a matter of small groups of labourers walking out and groups in other concerns returning to wor unconditionally. Most of the trou ble is over the wages received. There have been no serious outbreaks, in which the police have had to take a hand, the strikers, as a rule, being peaceful.
'Of the 170 egg tofters of Messrs. S. Behr & Mathew, 77 Yangtszepoo Road, who struck' on May 12, 35 resumed unconditionally yesterday morning. Representatives of th" strikers met at a teashop on Thorburn Road on Wednesday, evening and made threats of violence to anyone who went back to work, Four of the ringleaders were arrested.
Twenty-nine of the 60 workers of the Hwa Yang Printing Ca on Miller Road, who struck on Wednes+ day morning returned to work yelterday morning. Thirty-one of ths cers were dismissed and arranges ments are being made to reply them, 16 appointments having already been made.
Two hundred boatmen, semploy-Jed to transport. cargo for local iron firms, struck on May 12 to enforce an increase of 25 per cent. in their wages The strike has not yet been settled. The strike of Chinese dyers in Nantao, which started on May 1, still The San Sing effective, Cotton Mil strike fs likewise still A moron-car road from Shanghat to Hangchow, to run parallel with the railway line, is said to have been projected by Marshal Sug Chuan-fang. It is estimated that the new road would cost..6 million dollars, and a novel scheme has been proposed to supply initia funds. The 6,000 Chinese who ova. motor-cars in Shanghai, it is aug; gested, should each subscribe as vod and
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