Another strike has occurred in the printing and book-binding trade. On Tuesday, 30 hands employed at the Yih Hing establishment, 187 Szechuen Road, and 56 from Hing's, 48 Peking Road, left their work, and yesterday they were joined" by 35 from the Shun Lee firm, 60 Kiangse Road. A desire for more pay and less work appears to be the cause of the trouble, The deadlock at the Nagai Wata Kaisha Nos. 3 and 4 mills cor and the latest acti appears to indicate that at the moment they have no intention of aecepting the company's demand that they shall give in on the employers' terms before there can be any ne-'At the same time, it also points to the fact that they have but little faith in the assertions made by several agitators a few days ago to the effect that they have no cause for worry about being unemployed, as other associa. tions will see that they do not, suffer financially. On Tuesday, they sent a delegation of 20 men to call on various street unions and other organizations, to appeal for funds to assist the strikers. I tis stated that the delegation met with considerable success, not only in promises to raise money, but also to ing pressure to bear for a settlement of the dispute.
The other strike news is more cheerful. The leather workers in us shops in the Settlement and Chinese territory, who struck work on June 19, and 800 employees in the Chinese-owned Tung Yih cotton mill, 10 Mokanshaw Road, yesterday resumed work unconditional. ly. There are 2,700 hands from the fratter mill who' still' are on strike and four operatives have been dis-
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