Others Discharged: Trouble at Japanese Plant Seven mill hands, four of whom were women, were arrested on Dec, 4 by the Pootung branch of the Pubile Safely Bureau on charges of having instigated the "go-slow" strike and the disturbances in the Pootung plant of the Nikko Bosekl Kaisha earlier this week, Seventeen others, Including five men, were simultaneously discharged by the factory" management for "destroying machinery and. insulting officials," the local Japanese papers reported.
Damage onused by unruly workers on December 3 was placed by the company in the neighbourhood of $15,000.
Meanwhile, the company continued the lock-out declared on Dee. 4 retaliation (o the disturbances. The {rouble, according to plant offteinls, began when the mill foremen monstrated. with the workers for starting a "go-slow" strike.
The protesting foremen, the papers said, wore attacked by the mill hands who began throwing about parts. expensive machinery. Reserves from the Bureau of Public Safely" were immediately called out and cleared the entire factory of Chinese workers 'The night shift refused to go (0 work on 'Thursday evening, leading the Company management 10 declare the lock-out, Following' mediation by Mr, Tu Yuohsen, workers at the Pootung plant of the Nikko Boseki Kaisha resumed work on Doe, 6,
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