Other diserepane' lowing fact 1. "Persons who are not labourers and who are well-known loatera are going to the labour headquarters posing as strikers and receiving money intended for strikers. Not nly is this the case, but certain Persons, some of the student class, who are in a better position finanelally than the poor workers and coolies whose food they are robbing (as well as that of their wives and children) are also resorting to this practice.
2 Persons are known to receive pay and then to re-visit the labour headquarters and receive a second sum: nothing is done to show that the men have been paid or t show that the person making application the person who is entitled to the money or to prevent overlapping.
3. "Some of the strikers, considering it below their dignity to. visit such a place as the labour headqu ters or to associate themselves wit the inmates of that institution, do not go to collect their dues, wit the result that the books, if any, are marked as paid: the striker does not receive the money, but the per-ton or persons in charge the Headers and agitators, " well-known uunserupulous persons," receive the benofit—and the money.
4. Instead of being paid daily, the' men are paid once a week and although they were promised payment for each day they are ut receiving pay for six days x days being considered a weam the leaders revive the benefits, to the rentage of the strikers, Huge sums are reported as having been received, and, when divided up and thoroughly scrutinized, it would be found that there. was snicient money to last the striker: for a considerable period. However, there are not more than 60,000 men now cut on strike, yet appeal upon appeal is being made to the kindhearted nubile for funds and mote!
Why?—Simply to. benefit fow unseruplous scoundrels.
In connexion with the strike funds, it is interesting to note that the Chief Secretary to the Government, Gen. Liang Hung-tz, has issued a statement to the effect that the government has subscribed #100, towards the strike funds and thit does not propose to send any more sit tends only to prolong the strike. Probably, they. too, in Pek-jing have heard how the funds are being used.
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