Now as to our own men. I received last Thursday at mid-day the 23 demands of the Printers Union, 1 <melose a copy in Chinese, You will see however that they ask a rise in wages of $8 a month, a 49-hour week, recognition of the union, no men to be engaged or dismissed but with consent of the union, no apprentices taken on for two years, long holidays, a full month's bonus at, new year, etc, If the point at issue were a purely labour question it would be different, but it is all political, an attempt to fix Marxian Communism,—whose motto is Dictatorship of the Proletariat upon China, Tt is all political, and is all according to programme.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.