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Nonsense: Invasion of Provincial Border From Ovr Ows Canton, Aug. 10.
Only the cause of the labourers "hag been injured by the campaign dissatisfied elements in the yanks of organized labour have been waging against Marshal Li Chi-sen's government of late. Hit squarely by own boomerang, the General Labourer's Union has been felled by the blow, and may never rise again. When, a few days ago, the govern ment decreed that it should be dis solved, the union heads called in a body. to ask the officials to giv them a little time to wind up the affairs. Not a second of time has een granted, and after hearing the petition, the heads of state took steps to close up the Union without Joss of time, Chiv-chun Commissioner of the Bureay of Public Construction, who hag put in much time fostering new. workmen's enterprise, the Kuangtung Labour Union Feders tion, thus. scores a signal victor With the sanction of the Provincial Fathers he nad launched this new association, to embrace the Gener: Labourers" Union, Mechanics? In tute, Seamens' Union and Union of Railroad Employees. The General Labour Union bitterly resisted the formation of a central body that would cause it to lose prestige and actual. power, Dissattstiction with the governmient's action in siding with the cinema house proprietors and permitting them to discharge union men and to take on non-union employees at lower wages has culminated in fan open declaration of warfare against the powers that be. Out at! the arsenal a few days ago, a mass meeting was held, and. the- law makers and administrators were denounced as enemies of the work-
Ingman. Threats of a city-wide strike were uttered by the speakers, and in other quarters also the government learned that it was plane to tie up the water plant, electric tion and the three Kuang-roads running out of Can-
'Through a suspension of these public utilities, the mechanics have been hoping to win some degree of recognition. But again it may turn out to be another boomerang, for the only result of the workers' scheme thus far has been to put the military force guarding the city fon the alert. A warning has been given to the labourers that the: authorities will stand for no monkey. business, and anyone trying to put over such a strike will be deemed to be a traitor, and will be punished as such,
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