Mining Administration has receiv-a telegram from Tientsin to the effect that the reports of the strikes at the Administration's Tongshan mines have been greatly exaggerated in the local press. It is true, nevertheless, that at three different mines there have been minor strikes during the last three weeks, two of which were settled immediately, the one at the Tongshan mine, however, lasting for nearly a week, As far as the disturbance was concerned, the demands—put forward by the men were of an exceptionally wild nature, but on each occasion the men returned to work on the promise that any reasonable cause of complaint would ye redressed. The last strikers returned to work on June 12, since when a record output has been obtained.
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