Tientsin, Feb; 14.
Over 600 discharged workmen the Peiping-Tientsin section of the of the Peking-Mukden Railway Ad-caused: an obstruction esterday morning eros. the ralfvay, trad Fengiai station ay a protest agai the alleged unfairness of the Ade Ipinistration, Ie appears that the Engineering Department, in order to"eut down expenses, had. dismissed the labourers who then demand-jed that they be granted bonus for the, fod of their employment, in. the rail The refusal of the. Ade ministration to concede their demand: Ted to this spectacular method demonstration.
The situation threatened: at and time to become very serious, bub: thanks tothe, persuasion of th, Section "Chief," the "workmen gradually calmed down. A telograne Sas immediately dispatched to Me Kao Chil, Managing-Directer the Tea fat Shenyang for instructions 1h'regard to the matter.
Owing to, the demonstration, Pas sheer Train No. 4 "hich was: on, "S''Way te Shaenvang from Peiping, us held up, for one, ROUr: betweat," Peining and Tientsin, until Pra: cnilway line wag cleared a
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