A large number of riesha coolies refused to stop work on May 1, Labour Day. when a big labour Parade was held in this city. The was obliged, several days ago, to] men who insisted on working that enter a protest with the Chi jose day are, for the most part, from Foreign Office. The Commissioner Waichow and Chin Min in the of Foreig: fice entered at once Hakka district. Some of those who into negotiations ith the refused to abide by the order to the and an order has since been issued union heads were rouchly treated, by the Chief of the Strike Picket and the writer saw two rieshas Crops, forbidding the members of which had been completely wreck-his organization to enter private ed by other riesha men who at-houses and shops without rei tacked their disloyal comrades. and to meddle officiously with of ther Towards evening of the same day, people's business. a large number of Hakka: speaking coolies encountered Strike Committee Bribed the Cantonese-speaking Yiesha men, and a battle royal Shortly after the Shakee Affair, followed. The "Cantonese work {tht Mission Book Ca., which cecupi men drove their opponents back, the ground floor, reopened for busi and the latter were pursued as far ness, but was obliged to admit its] as Yue Shan tA great customers surreptitiously through many Hakkas live in that. neigh-the back door. Some of their em-bourhood, and. number of ployees returned, but they were dei] them came to the assistance of ven away several times by the pie-ithe Hakka coylies.
Kets. Finally the employees of the Mission Book Ca. made some sort of 80 Sent to Hospital deal at the strikers' headquarters "01
The tide of the battle then (uri= that the store might open their from ed against the Canton, farce, oer, the employers receiving. per: they were routed. More mission to return to work, persons had to go te the Most of the tenants of this bu id=] after the fight war over, whi ing are foreign companies.
The ral were killed, Asia Life Insurance Ca, The fight was renewed the fole the whole of the 4th floor lowing morning. Tt was several manager, arrested days before the rieshas were 1 fon the premises several months) ning again. The police did their ago and Was reported that hho best to give protection to the men had to pay a heavy, 10 before he tecstne Theale atthe working} was an ae euinant snd rope fay © cos fe Were be we wich sri people. hax gone over to the side of Gen- strikers' gaol.
His arrest. wasltrom being the Driven from Office eral Chiang Kai-shek, recording to) mage on the ground that the life] police were powerless tw prevent in On the eve of the adoption of cee arent n Canton, and the] insurance company is an American terference by angry coolies who, in the now plan, the Chief of Police] Public is watching to see whether grin, and that its employees had no many Wu. Te-chen, one of the foremost Ff spiel es "fpr tothe aid! right members of his loyal friend, whom he ap-l without first securing permission to return to their posts of the riesha so that it would not enses, took away the cushion used. Very few of the Waschowt government, was driven from office Pointed as Chief of Police when he} from the strikers. A foreign fami-land Chui Mia men have dared. by the commander of the Russian was Mayor of Canton. ly living in the same building: h return to work, and most of the trained soldiers, General Chang Kai-Civil War's Toll of Life also lost their house servants, who Vieshay are now being run by the shek, Li Chang-tak is now the have been frightened away by the head of the Bureau of In the disturbances of the last Safety. On the afternoon of Apri few years in southern Kuangtuns, 7 23, he led a body of General thousands of non-combatants. have!
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