Employees of Two Is Down Tools Two strikes, one in a Chinese cotton mill and one in a silk filature, ware reported on Sunday and in the two mills there are about 1,000 men jand women idle. Both of the strikes were caused through trouble between the foremen and discontented and unsatisfactory workers On Saturday morning at 6 o'clock 84 men and 180 women on the day shift in the spinning room of the Wei Tong cotton mill, a Chinese concern at 12 Lay Road, went strike to protest against the dismiss sal of three workers, whose work the management had' thought was unsatisfactory. Because of a shortage in ial 190 men and 334 women in other departments had suspend work, As a result of a dispute between foreman and 30 female workers the Tien Lung Silk Filature at 51 North Soochow Road, 250 employees struck work" The management arranged to pay all of them their wages in full and announced that they would reopen the filature, on Tuesday. All those failing:. to report for work on that day: would be replaced by new hands,
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