Pawn Shop Assistants' Demand for Holidays A strike was declared amongst the aczistants of the thied class pawn shans of the International. Sette ment on Satsday and. there are Suecut 1,000 now st ai work. The fron ate demand an increase in wages. They have presented the shop managements with the follow ing' Ust of demand:
general. increase for all assistants. 2. That a. bonus be given each year. 3. That the work-{ng hours be reduced to 13 " day, 4n"Phat each person get two month! holiday each' year, "5, That every! person receive Si a day during the \period of the strike." 6, That no Assistant be dismissed without good feause. Nine pawnshop assistants wore arrested in Thibet Road near the New World on Sunday morning when they were distributing Pamphlets reciting their grievances. They will "be. brought before. the Mixed Court this morning.
There is also some unrest amene the assistants in the general. goods stores in the Settlement and it was feared on Monday that these may' also go on strike.
They will hold a meeting to-eay in yan atteenpt to came to an array rent vith the 1,090 pawnebop em. ployees new out on strike. The Strikers complain that they' have neither food nor clothes, which sage gests some slight discomfort in the present weath.r.
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