Little Disaffection Remaining After Recent Trouble:
The Chief Secretary of the Directorate-General of Posts was interviewed on October 20 by, a representative of the "Northe China Daily News" with refer ones to present conditions in the Post Office and the question of wages, the Chinese papers inferring that the Ministry of Communications had agreed! to increase waxes from $130 to $210, General conditions, our informant stated, are now much better than they were a_ month further trouble is ant the present. The postal service is wg to normal and arkers have put forward no further demands, Asked whether there was any. isatfection in the service, our presentative was told quite franks ly that there was a Hittle because. it was impossible to satisfy every= body, Disagreements occurred every concern, and the Post OMee was not by Any means immune, Questioned ax to the toyed workers, our informant said that they were still loyal and always, would remain loyal to the service. There was no apparent bad feel~ ing between men and those who struck work last month, These loyal workers received no special treatment, but they had been commended by the higher authorities for their work.
The matter wares was then dealt with, and it was stated that the new scale of wages, viz, that reached following the last postal trike, was being enforced-—indeed, it has been enforced since tha Ddejinning of October—so there question of further increase those reported. In accordance with, this, the salaries or the Chines Postal Commissioners had been reduced but, the wages of the foreign members of the service were not affected. There were only a few Chinese Commissioners and the Amount of money saved was not. large. The money saved would be retained by the Post Office
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