Tsingtao, Jan. 31. in the affairs of the Tsi Railway has been reached ough the continued and growing agitation for the removal of the present management, Managing-Direc-for Kan Tao and Vice-Managing-Director T. C. Chu who came here 'a month ago following appointment by the Ministry of Communications, The charge against these men is that they deliberately removed 20 officials of the line who are natives of Shantung to make room for their friends. The agitation had its origin in verbal attacks on the railway heads by the dismissed men, Then thousands of fellow provincials lent their support and Joud cries for the ousting of Messrs, Kan and Chu have rent the air, Now there is a movement on foot to call a general strike and the barrassed management is tak-measures to defeat this pro-Jeet, The plan of the strike promoters was to induce the thousands of employees of the line to remain away from work at the conclusion of the Lunar New Year holidays, Obvious ly this was changed as the men returned to work two days ago.
The management has sent out its own emissaries to combat the writation and strike propaganda and these men are quietly working to restore conditions of peace and harmony. As the whole agitation against' the management is based the question of provincialism fund the allegation that the management has been discriminatory against the Shantungese, there has been a sharp cleavage of the personnel, the Shantung employees being arrayed on one side and the non-provincials on the other. The latter, of course, are neutral.
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