/Marshal Chang Tso-lin ended the order throughout the month. On. of a handful of agitators? It resignation. On the following On the following day, Belgium troubles between the Communist September 1, an' Ewo foreman is idle to say that neither the day, LIB. M. Minister, Sir proposed to submit the question Labour unions there and the was killed by some ruffians as Council nor anybody else can Ronald Macleay issued a state-to the League of Nations but police by closing all communist} an example to other loyal em-compel men to work against thei ment to the effect that the Bri-China rejected the proposal On the 25th and 26th] ployees. On September 2, it was will, The point to emphasise tish Government still hoped to (6th), on the grounds that no unions. nation can submit to judicial in-[strikes broke out in textile mills} reported that 12,000 labourers is that they are now being coi implement the Washington trea-in Shanghai, the causes being were still out., Finally, on the pelled to desist from work ties with the least. possible delay; uiry the question of equality. charges of assault against fore-Yith, these strikes which had last-against their will. The number that they were only waiting for On November 28, the Extraterriinsistance ed four_months in various mills, of mill-hands, tramway em-the Chinese to assume their restoriality Commission's report men and the usual which was, on the whole, un-that dismissed employees be re-were settled, the workers returnployees and others who actually possibilities in the matter. But This last demand be-by the 8th, Dr. C, T. Wang had favourable to China, was pub-instated. came one of the principal ones signed from all his positions in lished in all countries concerned panese the employers ing sonally to the Jawish to leave their work tically negligible, Terrorism, as culminating toward making voluntary concessions. always, has brought them out of Peking and Mr. Hioki, the head except China, of labour, ithe end of the year in a demand the "shops" and the only retort of the Japanese delegation had Rendition of Mixed Court Strikes Political by C. P. unions in Hankow that} to that weapon is to convince the returned to Tokyo. On July 16, On December 23, Sir Miles! no dismissal take place without Toward the end of the year, workers, on the one hand, that a new Tariff revision Commission Lampson arrived in Peking and Tu the strikes were entirely politi-it decidedly will not pay' them was appointed by the Peking] the course of one of. these cal. On October 9, Dr. V. K. to down tools" without just Government; to this appointment two later the British Me-the consent of the unions. morandum to China was pub-strikes, a Japanese foreman of Ting closed.the Seamen's Union cause, on the other, that "the Canton protested with emphasis, lished, providing, unconditional the Shanghai Cotton Manufactu: but on November 17, that union Council are fully able to protect objecting to the resumption of grant of surtaxes, more liberal ing Company's mills at Yangtze-called a strike in the China Mer-them against violence. We have the Conference. An informal view of the treaties, modification poo was shot by workers, chants Steam Navigation Com-nothing to say against striking meeting or rather a tea party and revision of the treaties as pany for political purposes, to for good and reasonable econ-was held in Peking on the 20th soon as possible. On December March witnessed the appea protest against the use of the amic cause, But the political but nothing came of it 128, th Diplomatic Body approved ance of the lightning strip On August 3, the Waichiaopu fof the rendition of the Shanghai which has become perhaps the ships for military purposes by strike is open rebellion which Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, should be dealt with promptly formally requested the recall Mixed Court on January 1, 1927. most serious problem facing the} Comrade Karakhan, Soviet Am-employer of labour.
For in-November 23, the postal strike and unsparingly.
The Strikes commenced in Wuchang. This It cannot be thought that the bassador, to whose. intervention stance, strikes were settled withis the beginning of a dictatorship Council would be acting wisely in the internal affairs of China, The year 1925 was important] in a few hours or at most a da} of the proletariat in Hupeh, Hu-or for the interests of the whole Marshal Chang Tso-lin objected. from the labour standpoint more yet soon another strike would, On nan and Kiangsi, the details of community, Chinese and foreign, On August 25, Mr, MacMurray because "it marked a furth break out in another mill, which will have to be recorded in merely waiting on events and addressed a sharp note to the development of the labour unions: 'March 3, the strike inthe Japa Peking Government setting forth' than because of any outstanding China Cotton Mill was settled during 1927 rather than in the dealing with them as they arise.
American claims against the] economic strikes. The political through the intervention of the year under review, They com-The issue has already been made menced in November and by so very clear, that no practicable Government and demanding that! strikes of that year brought to Chinese police. On the 4th, December had combined with the measure to' stop terrorization those claims be paid before any: Jabour large economic gains, [short strike took place in one the anti-Christian movement, which should be omitted. A highly new loans are made. which perhaps explains in some
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