Five hundred workers of some 59
Chinese shops manufacturing hosiery automatic knitters in Nantao and Chapei went on strike in the forenoon of September 24 to enforce a demand for an increase of wages and improvement in working cor ditions, and were still out on Sept. 25, Seventy of the strikers held @ meeting on Septembet 24, in their union at the Tsing Loong Temple, Nantao. Chow Kuo-sec a striker, presided, and the follow-_ ing decisions' were reached:
1, That a strike committee of 40 be organized.
2 That five representatives be sent to the Social Bureau and the Kuominting Headquarters to r2- quest their in the dispute.
The strikers' demands include recognition and material support by employers of their union; an eigh*- hours working day; and enforcement of a revised scale of wages.
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