The Archive · 1923

The Rights of the Workers

Peking, Feb. 14.

A group of Members of Parliament yesterday submitted a resolution to the Governiment to the effect that, firstly, the Government' should forbid military interference with railway traffic; secondly, the railway directors whose mismanagement was responsible for the strike on the Peking-Hankow line should be dismissed; thirdly, the Government should recognize the workmen's right of assembly; fourthly, the families of the strikers killed or wounded should be compensated by the Government; fifthly, the Government should recognize the right of Labour to organize, which has already been proclaimed by the Government.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account