At a meeting of the Amalgamated Association of Street Unions at its headquarters at 202 Shantung Road fon Saturday, it was decided that Vu Yah-ching and Wong Yih-ding, the compradore of the N. K. K., should be requested to mediate in the strikes in the Japanese cotton strike of 1,000 book binders to an end yesterday morning] following the signing of an agreement between representatives and printing establishments _on Saturday. The agreement gave the employees an increase of 20. per} jeent. and further stated that there [should be no extra charge for food, that the older employees should not be dismissed and their places given to apprentices, that they be paid in big: money and that one per cent. of their wages should be deducted and given to the union fund and during the strike should be reinstated,
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