Between 5 and 6 pins workers at the Nagai Wata Kaisha Nos, 1 and 2'mills, 62 Robison Toad, went on strike when the day-shift, consisting of 80 mon and 370 women, cut the Threads in their looms, A fow hours later 316 of the women left the raul, to be joined by the remainder soon afterwards. The nightahift of 400 also helped to swell the crowd strikers which milled around in the streets in the vicinity.
"A large party of Bureau of Public Safety men, reinforced by foreign und Chinese members of the Shanghat 'Municipal Police, watched the mob, ud the Reserve Unit van visited the scene about 620 p.m, for a short. while. "No arrests were reported. 'The stele spread to' the company" Nos. 6 and 7 mills, when 300 hands one department loft work shortly after midnight, Six of the striking employees. believed to have been the ringleaders were dismissed by the mill compan;
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