In general, strikes mean stopping work, then leaving the premises bj the workmen, but lately they seem to have acquired an opposite meaning. To occupy the promises, orf have them surrounded, and cut off all communications are a part of the strike. Thus, in the Commercial Press, Shanghai, the workmen locked the factory' and kept the key} themselves; in the—Missionary} Hospital, Canton, they took posses sion of the place and left all the patients by the roadside, and ini: Canton Christian College' and the fi, drug stores, Swatow, they laid siege to the place, and inthe latter case, murdered the owner who attempt-
outrageous deeds which they ha aut and procure food, Th done are enough to fill a velum Instead of keeping to adults they now aim at helpless children, an stead of keeping to enpitalists one capitalism, they now aim at educa)
ion What will they do next? The; strike in C. C. C, wasa matter between the College authorities and the workmen, and was no concern, of the students, yet the latter, including primary school children, had to suffer. The very injustice of it! If there is more of this, Iam afraid that education in China will not be able to improve, for who will have the courage to'run schools which must be at the beck and call of the workmen?
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