The agitators hearing of this, called a atrfke, and, out of the 5,700 Workers, only about 300 went out. The loyal workers continued to work and, one day, they were suddenly met in the streets by some of the strikers and told that they must not work o they would yet into On their refusing to join the they Were immediately attacked Pullce assistance was called in to disperse the gathering.
'Telegrams were Immediately patched throught the country callings upon the workers in differen. places to declare'. strikes in xympathy and describing the awful indignities which the Poe's worker boycott on the compan and the result was that, apart from in Kuangtung province, they met with no response. It came as no surprise when an announ ement was issued by the "Red" admi istration in Canton orde to boycott. the company's cigarettes and forbidding their sale. 'This action was taken, no doubt, because, we learn from unofficial sources, the eompuny refused to accede to' the Secret request of some members of the government for "loans" and an "advance." Should these have been forthcoming, it is said, there would have been no trouble. "The boycott, therefore, against the sompany's cigarettes, ix still on.
'A few day's ago, these Bolshevists They ut by. the present and former Civil Governors of Kuantung, Hu Han-ming and Hao Chung-kai, tie men who now the leaders of the "Red" administration and who are direct img the anti-foreign and anti-Christian, movements, They have come to "investigate" the case and report to Canton. The delegates have now called a' general strike, but s0 far they have not met with any success.
Of the 300 workers who left the factories most have returned and only a few recalcitrants are still reniaiving away from work. They are receiving no pay and ce the promise: made at the ber have not been fulfilled.
Nanyang Bros. Attitude Interviewed by a representative of the "'North-China Daily News"
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