The unrest occasioned by the terference of Chapei military with silk filature workers on March 3, during the course of which one of their number was killed, has no' subsided, although with the. exception of The Union has agitated, since that time, for'drastic means to secur redress.
On Thursday, it would seem, the matter came to a head, when' 109 engine room mechanics, eniployed im filatures in, the West Hungkew district, struck work, Their action resulted in 6,000 hands being thrown out of work, although as far as can be ascertained, this vast number, had no desire to be prevented from earning. their livelihood, Once absent from their places of employment, these workers. were menced by radicals' to fort others in. the. same industry absent themselves, and 4.000 persons, mostly women, in the Sinza istrict, followed suit.
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