Ata meeting of the Anti-Japanese Boycott Committee, there was a discussion over the assault of members of the picket corps by shopkeepers in Nantao who declined to be bullied and to allow these men to search their shops for Japanese goods. It }will be recalled that, when these men went in to search [for the despised goods, a shopkeeper pretended that robbers were in his place and blew a police whistle for all he was worth. The! result was that other shopkeepers! came to his assistance and the inspectors were badly beaten.
After considering the matter at Jzreat length, the committee resolved that a letter should be sent to the Commissioner of Public Safety requesting him (o arrest and punish the shopkeeper who was responsible for the trouble and to fine the other who ill-treated—the pickets, It was also decided to send letter to the China Merchants 8.
Ca. drawing their attent the ict that considerable quantities of "enemy" goods have been transport-steamers, and to wire to the Ministry of Gommunications requesting that an order should be issued to transporta. tion companies forbidding them to handle Japanese goods.
Prririons have been sent to the Kuomintang Plenary Congress by the Shanghai District Students Union recommending the abolition of the district political councils. from 7 p.m. to 7 am. for periods of one month and no nights off during that time.
At the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary duty is from 7 a.m, to 8.30 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on Sunday, with three hours off each day, and one. day off a month. Night daty is from 8.30 p.m. to 8 a.m. in periods of six and four months, during which duty the nurses get two nights off a month. The pay of probation-Jers is £20, £22.10, £35 and £30 a year.
Tke hospital attached to the University of Virginia a well-known institution in America has day duty! of 10 hour periods with two hours off. Lectures and class work are given after duty hours. In some American states, it is true, where there is an eight-hour a day law for all these who do not come under the heading of, "professional women," tcdent nurses work 48 hours a, week.
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