Rioter Killed by Annamite Constable in Self-Defence: Result of Labour Dispute Demonstrating angrily and ad-to attack a party of French a party-of ex-employees Chinese factory on March 5 fled helter-skelter when an Annamite stable found it necessary to use ife in self-defence and shoot a man, Several were hurt in the stampede, while two French and two Annamite members of the French Concession Police were injured in the affray.
The affair occurred at the Chang Chang cotton and silk factory off Rue Amiral Bayle, as the result of Inbour demands, This factory employed 287 in its cotton department and 117 labourers in its silk department, but on "December 20 last found it necessary to close down, its cotton department owing to losses, incurred therein, The factory paid 40 cents per day to each labourer as food allowance for a period of six days, by which time both employers and employees had sent a letter to the Social Bureau and also to the City Government of the Municipality of Shanghai (Chinese Territory) regarding the affair. On the advice of the Social Bureau, food allowance at the rate of 25 cents per day for each person was paid pending a settlement of the affair, On February 21 the Social Bureaa issued its recommendations to the employers, which was that compensation of $15 for each male worker ud $6 for each female worker be paid and that the workers should then consider their' services ended.
This the workers would not take, but, as the employers naturally ceased their 25 cents chow-the Social Bureau publishing its recommendation, the employees then found themselves with nothing. at On March "5 over 200. ex-employees, male and female, went to the factory, where the watchman opened the gate, but promptly: formed the French Police as soon as he could as to what was happening. Some of the crowd ma trance by breaking open the doer, and all, to their amazement, found that the machinery was gone, the management having had it re: moved to some other place.
'A squad of about 20 of the French Polies arrived on the scene from Lokawei Station, including foreigners, Annamites' and Chinese, foreign officer told the crowd to keep quiet and not to worry, but they persisted in shout ing and keeping up the tension, Some of the crowd threw' oblectionable missiles at the Police and some threatened them with iron rods, whereupon the Police drew their pistols or brought their rifles into a handy position. They showed great forbearance, even when two rifles were broken by blows from the iron rod:
Finally one labourer made an on-slaugh on an 'Annamite constable and the latter, in self-defence, found it_necessary to fire, which "he did, killing the labourer. Immediately the shot rang out the crowd fled, injuring many in its flight; 13 women were later taken' to hospital in Nantao, while a man and a woman were taken to the Hospital Ste, Marie by: the French Police. During the, actual demonstration four police were hurt, French constables 28 and. 34, and Annamite stables 179 and' 898, Subsequont to this it is reported that the crowd went to the Social Bureau to report upon the affair and to invite condolences, but it is id that they were told by officials that they had*brought the affate upon their own heads by not accepting the grant recommended to the factory by the Bureau, and which the factory had been perfectly pre-raved to Day
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