In regard to the strike which has been going on for several days at the Japan-China Cotton Manufacturing Co.'s mill in which 3,000 ference was held on Wednesday afternoon in the Chinese Police Station at Pootung of representa-ves of employers and workmen in an attempt to make a suitable settlement. It is reported that the employers agreed to "increase the wages of the workmen 10 per cent.
Thirty men engaged in the packing room of the Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill went on strike un Monday as a protest against the dismissal of three of their colleagues for the assaulting of an Indian. About naif of the strikers resumed work this morning. In connexion with this four men were put in custody yesterday charged with attempting to arouse mill hands in the Settlement to waik out on strike in sympathy with the strikers at Yangtszepoo by distributing hand bills, ete. They were remanded for one week in gaol.
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