'A Jong petition by nearly 2,000) rickshaw pullers of the International Settlement has been submitted to the Rickshaw Board, it was disclosed Thursday. In this document the pullers pledge their unanimous sup-Port to the Rickshaw Board for the: Feforms instituted by the Council and Urge the Board to stand firm against the opposition of the owners. One ge of the petition reads as fol-
We beg to state that with regard! to the measures adopted by your Board (1) beginning August 1 to reduce the rental charge to ten dimes and to add one dime for the mutual ald fund, altogether eleven dimes small money for the two shifts of each day, (2) beginning January 1 next year to reduce further the rental charge to eight dimes and to add one dime for the mutual aid fund, altogether, nine dimes small money, (3) through the aid of the Pullers' Mutua} Aid Association to register the pullfers free of charge, we 2,000 pullers and representatives of pullers give our unanimous support.
"As to the type of rickshaws it is 'a matter for your Board to decide, Bui we have recently read news: Papers in which owners say that we pullers are opposed to the measures!
"To fight to the bitter end!" This was. the slogan adopted at the emergency meeting held on Friday afternoon in the Chinese Chamber Jof Commerce building by the Shangha Special District Rickshaw Owners' Association to determine its attitude towards the Rickshaw Board.
The meeting, which was attended several hundred owners of public rickshaws in the Settlement, resolved not to comply with the new rules and regulations to be enforced on August 1, and not to apply for ownership certificates which will be required in renewing licences for the jgpsuing months.
In order to strengthen its force in its present opposition campaign, the meeting voted for the organization of a joint office of the Shanghai Special District Rickshaw Owners Association and the Chinese Ric /shaw Owners' Association in the Chinese district to handle the situation, snd a warning was duly issued 10 the owners against betraying the decisions of this meeting.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.