At Tuesday's meeting, Dr. Ton, and Messrs. Fok and Lu advise the men to resume their work immediately and in the meantime the Guild would try their best to get the contractors to raise the pay in order to meet the demand of the workers. This, the men were told, might take several months' time, but if the men would go back to work efforts would be made to settle the matter as soon as possible. The Guild took into consideration the fact of the danger "f 1,000 odd men without employment. Many of these had families who had to be looked after. Without means of support, these were a great menace to the community, especially in the Hongkew district. The men were urged not to make enemies of their employers.
The men were satisfied and the three Guild arbitrators immediately wrote a letter to the contractors stating that the men had promised and would resume their work in a day or two at $1 each a day for the present until some satisfactory arrangement is arrived at. Hope was also expressed that the opinion of the contractors would be the same as the members of the Guild who acted as arbitrators.
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