The Association formed by the various local labour unions to render nce to the strikers held a meting at 1 pan, on Dee. 1) when, 100 persons representing the various Labour unions resolved:— would be published (2), Tht a petition shoul be. sao connection with the strike, the Chinese Ratepayers Association in the French Concession and the French Concession Ammalga Association of Street Unions sent the following joint Jetter to the Manager of the Compan; (oF pay having been rejected Tike Yo draw yours atten tic othe wenienes caused ty thousands of Deople who take use of the tramway the sake of can is Concession. we take concessions S988 the trike to an end.
Increasing Bitterness Among Men Increasing bitterness has become manifest owing to reaction after their disappointment that what they expected was a victory over the compars. when they decisled recently "to return to work, proved no victory after all." The are regarding the negotiators in whose hands they. had previous entrusted the settle ment with the company suspicion, and a definite comm tic tinge' has crept into recent and posters connect-So far the men behaved and understood that the men ito work under the imwhich they had received from Mr. Tu Yueh-sen, an in fucntial Chinese in the Concession, that a settlement with the company' in terms favourable to them would be arrived at. When they were disabused of this impression a reaction against Mr. Tu Yueh-sen set in among a section of the workers, who believed that he had deliberately deceived them, A similar reaction has also spread te officials of the Shanghai District Kuomintang and the Social Buresu of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, and leaflets have been distributed among the men and notices posted in various parts of the town denouncing the Kuomin: tang and the Bureau.
Some of these posters, purporting. to have emanated from the Chinese General Labour Union, an organize tion which was suppressed in Apri, 1927, but which has still been carrying on propaganda secretly, advocate the workers taking up. negotiations direct with the company, while maintaining a firm stand against all who would seek to persuade them to abate thole demands. The unification and consolidation of all labourers Shanghai in support of the strikers is urged, and the posters carry the usual denunciations of Free:
"imperialism," with which is coupled "Down with the Kuomintang."
Members of the striking union held a meeting on December 9 at which it~ was decided apply for assistance to the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of 'Commerce, to the Shanichai Students mn, and to the Amalgamate' Society of Street Unions. These bodies will be circularized by the strikers, if resolutions passed at this meeting are given effect. the was also made by 'A strong attack on "traitors to
speakers at the meeting, and a resolution urging that all "reac-ries" should be watched by union was adopted, 'The Butchers' Strike In the meanwhile the strike of meatman and butchers against a 10 cent veterinary inspection per pi slaughtered, whic was Imposed by the Chinese authorities still con tinues, and yesterday, according to official count, 18 slaughter houses: and 100 butcher shops in Nantao. rerfiained closed as did 19 similar} establishments in Pootung.
The affected interests have protested against the tax to the auth. orities, who have promised to tuke the matter under consideration,
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