An echo of the closing, on December 21 last, of the How Song Cot. ton Mill, Yangtszepoo Road, one of China's largest industrial plants, was heard in the First Special District Court on Sept, 10 when Messrs. Wang Chu-hsuan and Shih Kia-chi, representing the ex-workmen of the mill, preferred a charge of embezalement against nine ex-foremen of the mill who were alleged have received from the management $210,000 as the workmen's retirement gratuity, but who were alleged to have failed to distribute the money among the ex-workmen, the Court's Civil Di that whether or not accused were guilty would have to depend upon the result of the case in the Civil Division.
According to the complainants, after the closing of the Hou Song] Cotton Mill, they appointed the: nine ex-foremen as delegates to negotiate with their employers regarding the question of retirement gratuity. 'They demanded from their employers five months' extra pay and three months' retirement gratuity and, when the demand was rejected by their employers, they sued the latter in the former French Mixed Court. However, they later withdrew the OSSET yy tha deepen thea Fromice had Seen reached between Clem and their employers. At rt, fey did nat know what the terms the ceilement were, But_ they learned recently that a sum of $210.00 bad. been granted by the Sremdgement of therm a8" the wroniinen's "retirement gratuity, Since they had not received a cent the sealed retirement grasulty Flem' their. legates, the. latter fut have embensed the toa) ssu, ihe complainants fold the Court asked! how much each of them would recelne from the sum which The nine excforemen. were. alleged e'have received from the manager rent of the "mil, complainants Rated they' would get about $90 each, Subsequently, the complainants requested the Court to order a. number of witnesses to give evid-fence at the next hearing.
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