Except the "Min Kuo Yih Pao" and "Kuo Min Sen Wen," the two Kuomintang newspapers subsidizer by the party in Canton entirely, al! newspapers in Canton, about 80 in all, have suspended publication since July 24, over Inbour and political difficulties. The direct causes of the suspension of publications were that the printing staff of the "Sevent} two Guilds Commercial Journal, the "doyen" of Canton news pay for the time being, would not start work again without a minimum, wage of $21 monthly and that those of the "Yin Chiang Pao," another well-known publication, deserted the printing department on account of a recent report unfavourable to the Kuomintang Workers' Conference, The Canton Press Association, which was in existence before the Kuomintang regime, following what has taken place at the two newspaper offices, became alarmed and called gor a special meeting to consider appeals from these two members. It was rightly fell, that the foundation of newspaperdom in Canton would be shaken by the act of the printing staff of the "Yin Chiang Pao," if permitted,
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