This time, however, the police were well prepared for an emergency, the red riot vans of the Bureau bein tawn up at the station and reserve being held In readiness for a charge.
The leaders of the crowd presented three demands to the police. They requested the release of the prisoners, the return of all the documents. and furniture seized in the raid, and a promise that the action of the police would not be repeated. The demand: Faving been presented, the crowd wa told to disperse, which it did without Meanwhile the Settlement Poilee gbyerved strict vigilance on the extra-Seltlement roads the Bubbling Well and Gordon Road districts and the SMP, Reserve Unit (riot squad) stood by in the neighbourhood and at the Gordon Road Station -throughout the morning and early afternoon.
At noon some 1,600 workers gathered in a piece of vacant ground atthe Intersection "of Brenan "and Edinburgh Roads, where they ce ducted another indignation meeting At the end of the meeting th selected delegates to call of the local Tangpu in Nantao and enter a protest against the action the Chinese potter, Resumption of Work OF:
With the arrest of the 42 persons, Chinese Police believe that normal Tabour "situation will be. restored, Among those detained at the Bureat Were Wang Hou, secretary of the Third District Weavers Union, Yuan. Lou-yi, and others, all of whom were alleged to be well-known. labour agitators, Twelve of the arrests were made in Nantao, In an order issued by the Shanghai Kuomintang, the Chinese Police Bureau and the Bureau of Social Affairs, strikers of the Mayor factories have Been instructed to resume work without further delay,
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