The strike which resulted as a protest against the treatment, of group of silk filature-workers and the alleged clubbing to death of an employes, has become general.and jon Saturday" 35,000 silk workers walked out of 88 features. On Sunday parties: concerned_ attempted to effect a compromise, but the workers remained obdurate, and have stated that they will not return until the culprits have been punished. The strike, although it chiefly concerns establishments in Chape affected more than 6,000 workers in the settlement.
The following demands have been formulated:—
1—That the dnatigator of the fatal that the saaitent tee, the Shanghai Labourers Unification Committee, has issued the following notice:
"In, view of the ing on the part of the military aus thorities, "Strict negotiations will be con "All workers fre. hereby requested. to carry hark, Usual "during the' negotia
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