Kiuking, Jan. 3.
Grasping the golden opportunity when the new manager, Mr, Vu Yue, had assumed office on the previous Il the workers and engineers of the Nan Hsun Railway Ca, here struck en masse on December 28 and presented their demands of 19 items to the aid company touching upon the follow The formal recognition of the railway workers union, increasing of wages, pension, jeight hours work, employing and [dismissing of workers with the consent of the Union, holidays, etc, which were later on accepted and granted by the company. In cele-rating this victory, the workers paraded through the main streets. bearing in hand sticks with paper fags and shouted at the top of their voices the seasonal slogans, Strikes: of coolies have been taking place successively in Butterfield & Swire, Jardine, and. K. com:
The N.K.'K, is aid pani to have -granted the demand for increase of wages according to the standard of living prevailing through the city, but the strike in Butterfield & Swire and Jardine thas rot yet eon setited.
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