The strike situation in the local Japanese mills remained about the same yesterday. All except one of} the Naigai Wata Kaisha mills were] closed as well as the Dong Shing, in Gordon Road, the Nikko in Pootung. It is estimated that approximately 15,000 men and women in these mills are idle, Fifteen representatives of the: Nikko cotton mill held a meeting on Thursday when it was decided that an increase of 10 per cent. in wages should be asked for, that! each employee should be granted $5; for the time they had been on strike, that a picket committee should be: formed, that a committee, which should "be recognized by the mill management should be appointed, that the police should guarantee not} to assault any worker in the future and that the 22 persons dismissed in connexion with the strike should] be reinstated.
The strike of the 260 employe of the Nantao tramways came to a conclusion yesterday following meeing between representatives of the strikers and the tramway management, during which it was agreed! that the employees should each be granted a rice allowance of month, The lockout in the Ewo cotton mill in Yangtzepoo, affecting, 2,760 workers still continues as does the strike of 400 gold and silver smiths. districts speaking on the humiliation which China hax suffered because of the Boxer treaty and de-the cancellation of all ko situation in the Japanese cotton mills yesterday remained quiet with all but one of the Naigai Wata Kaisha sills completely closed 'a5 well as the Nikko cotton mill in Pootung and the Dong Shing mill in the Western district. It is estimated that there are in the neighbourhood of 15,000 mill hands now idle.
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