In another nation, dislocated river labour would at once find employment in another trade, but onthe upper river, where the population of the cities clings-to the junk traffic as its last prop, the; passing out of the junk trade' is a more than serious business. Inevitable as that posing obviously is, a stern resistance from the river men can scarcely be avoided.
Last year a similar drive on the steam vessels resulted in th~ agree-
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