Sweet Simplicity of Mill-hand|*
Methods We are accustomed to the! ravings of foreigners in Shanghai just about this time of the month against the well-known—shraf receptions whick are hed on the outskirts of every business house, and to hear the under-tone mut-torings as the members of the tats dismiss them with, "come back number 18 day," or some other familiar phrase. The foreigner, for all his years and experience 12 China dealing with these alleged vagabonds, (or all them what you will) has not learned the "hocus poons" which will rid him of this class of pests. This was left to a group of mil: hands, nothing more than coal Tt came about in this way. Early this week, three shroffs in the San Sing (Chinese) Cotton Mill at 87 Yangtzepoo Road can: c Jdisfavour with several coolies. latter did not mince matters but straightway cleared for action and proceeded to trounce one of the disfavoured ones. On Monday two of the coolies were charged at the Mixed Court with assault and sentenced to one week each in gaol.
This was not the end of the! matter, however, and on Tuesday night, when the night shift was supposed to go on duty, 785 of them failed to show up for work, saying that they were indignant because the Court had seen fit to pass sentence on two of their number for assaulting mere shroffs.
This is not all of the story. On Wednesday morning the entire day shift walked out in sympathy with the others, and at present—there are 2.509 persons affected by the strike,
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