Hands Engage in Orgy of Window Smashing An unruly demonstration in the Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill, 1 Wetmore Road, at 630 am. on Thursday, was prevented from developing into alarming proportions when oticers of Yulin Road Police Station and. the [Reserve Unit dispersed a mob of more han 2,000 unruly people within ten minutes of their arrival. As a consequence of the incident, during which scores of windows in the spinning and cording departments were smashed, [the management declared a lockout.
'The demonstration protest against a decision to reduc the mill hands' wages by ton per Jcent., with effect from February" 1, Jane "to trade depression, Agitation had been going on for some time, but did not come to a head until the pay-day, that day. The mill, a British concern, employed about 4,000
The Tabour situation in Shanghai improved on Monday with the calling off of two strikes and the re-opening of the Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill following successful mediation by dals of the Bureau of Social Affairs 'That the loss incurred during the disturbance of the hands be borne by the management; that the wages be reduced by ten' per cent. and that normal pay be granted when business Improves (the employees in the Ewo and Yangtszepoo Cotton Mills should receive equal treatment); that no workers concerned in the present agitation be dismissed; and: that the foremen in various departments be allowed to recommend new hands, for engagement by the tives of the Woo Foong iron works of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Ca, Pootung, in protest against the dismissal of 21 of their colleagues called off yesterday: morning, tne ute being settled through' the mediation of a representative of the Shanghai District Kuomintang, The management promised to. reinstate the discharged hands, while the operatives agreed that "no wages be Issued for the period of the strike.
'The "go-slow" strike of 200 hands of the Ming Sung rubber factory, Loh Ka Pang Road, Nantao, was called off during the week-end' when the management, during a meeting with the strikers, agreed to enforce general reduction of only 20 per cent, in wages instead of 50 per cent, The Kung Dah Rubber Factory, a Japanese concern located at Lane 1751, 22-28 Pinglang Road, closed down on Friday, owing to trade depression. The suspension will affect 122 hands.
The 200 employees of the Nantao Tramway Company who declared a "go-slow" strike "on Thursday 10 enforce a demand for on increase of wages have resumed work. The dispute was brought 10 a conclusion through the efforts of Tu Yueh-sung, Chairman of the board of directors of the company. An increase in wager ranging from 20 to 40 per cent. was granted, At 1 pam, on Friday, a [party of coolies attempted to stop the work of unloading coal for the company from boats on the Whengpoo. The man in charge of the unloading work assembled his followers in the vicinity, Trouble was averted by the urrivel of come fifty Chinese police, who dispersed the crowd and took the leaders of both sides to the [Bureau of Public Safety.
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