Should Shanghai unfortunately become entangled in a strike during the next few months, we shall be fortunate in having resident in the Settlement one of the men who for years has been foremost amongst the few at Home competent and willing to adjust matters as between master and man in such a manner as to ensure peace. He was in Hongkong throughout the worst of the strike, but Hongkong either had not found it out, or else despised outside assistance, for a friend of his declares that our visitor was' just itching -to take a part in arbitration. flow. ever, he was not called in and so he spent his time proving himself amore efficient No. 1 boy in charge of the third floor of his hotel than the regular holder of that exalted office.
The gentleman referred to is Mr. A. R. Kibblewhite, a director of Callender's Cable Ca., who, accompanied by his wife and Mr. M. J. Cox, well known to all Shanghai as the former manager of Reuter's, has come. out to the Far East _in the interests of his company. For 14 years past Mr. Kibblewhite has been an authority on industrial politics and, as may well be image ined, has of late had plenty to do in that line. So much so that, when their boat cast off from Tilbury, his wife remarked: Well, it is fortunate that for a while at least we shall not have to worry about strikes." Then at Hongkong they dropped right into the thickest of the biggest strike China has ever known!
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