ae omen Workers Bent on Having Their Own Way 'A round-table conference of local snilitary, civil and political leaders was held on August 16 when an important resolution was passed by Which all strikes are to be prohibit in future, It was also decided that strict precautionary measures should be adopted by the authorities to prevent labour troubles and tha' employers should be instructed io give their employees better treatment, In connection with this resolution, 4 joint proclamation was issued by the District Kuomintang, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai and the Gendarmerie Commissioner, which reads "The promotion of industry and ¢o-operation with labour is in direct harmony with the principles of the Kuomintang. If employees are ill-treated and if their demands are ased on sound grounds, the thorities will consider and accede their requests in accordance with the principles of justice and right-gausness. Ilegal actions and open rebellion against the Law and government orders, however, will not be tolerated. Employers, on the other hand, must treat their employees properly and must not dismiss them without good reasons, Strike agitators will be arrested and punished severely. Ca-operation between employees and employers is desirable and strongly urged, The Advisory Council to the Kuomintang has circulated a letter to the General Labour Union Reorganization Committee and the Shanghai Merchants Federation requesting them to appoint_members to serve on the Labour Committee 80 that questions relating to labour troubles may be investigated, Women More Diifcult Female employees of. the Hong ¢hun, Tehkang and Lifeng. Silk Filatures in Chapel are becoming. vestigate era play ere Use shortly fads they Femumed work, Wednesday, a nuraber of them turn. edu late and they were not adraitted, the management of the filatures concerned having closed their doors for fear of trouble. This started a quarrel and the women inside at once stopped work and burst open the door. They then declared a new strike and went to other filatures and persuaded the workers of the Shengyuan, Chuhsing, Chukang, Chingfeng, Yulunsand Lunhua filatures to suspend work. From there, they went to the Taching filature, but the workers Fefused to strike, and so the agitators got inside and began to smash the machinery, foreing the workers to stop work. After that, they went to three other flatuves in Manchu Road and were successful in getting the workers there to join them. Thus, at the present time, all the filatures to the north of the Settlement have suspended work, A settlement was Jater reached and the workers resumed duty on Aug. 20.
Female workers of the picking department of the Pootung: Nikis Mill, when returning to work at 545 on Aug, 17 assaulted one of their forewoman in the vicinity of the mill. It is alleged that her harsh treatment of the workers gave vise to this, The police imlately proceeded to the scene of strife and arrested four of the as-
Tobacco Strike On August 15 the Municipal police arrested three coolies of the Hua Chen Tobacco factory, 11 50 Dixwell Road, for intimidating the workers to so on strike, One of; them waa, on August 16, sentencil by the Provisional Court to forty ays" imprisonment, while the ease inst the other two was dismissed.
Ag a result 360 male employees of the factory struck work on August 16 as a protest against the impri-ronment of their colleague, and they ate still out. The remaining ope! tives, 950 women, are carrying on usual, (The workers of 12 silk filatures inf the West Hongkew district, nam-Bering about 4450, went on strike
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