The Archive · 1928

New Labour Union for Shanghae Strike

Result Apparently of Delegates'

Treatment of Recalcitrants Recent Conference lun Hospital The delegater of Ieee! labour were suramoned to ly for the purpure of the problems with which the the government are confronted, have returned to Shanghai apparently satisfied with the attitude adopted by the officials in the capital, "An exception is the Postal Workers Union who have voiced further demands, These demands are, ever, not believed to be the opinion of the union as a whole but of the radical minority who sub to the ictation of outside bodies such as the General Labour Union or the Shanghai Special District Kuomintang.

A new sone 1 union of Inbourers will be formed by realiz in Shang-the different

present plans mature, according to the Chinese press. A meeting to determine the nature of this mew union and to report on male and fe maasex of the Paulan I ital in Burkill 1 th daties on October having: ignored the ultimatism of the mede itendent, have since notified that" their places been filled and that they can lain away because the hospital nurses (0 work and not to strike, appears, was due to the resignation of a foreign head nurse andthe appointment of a successor from. Germany. The shew nurse was most acceptable '0 the medical staff for she was a conscientious worker, who cared for nothinie other than eating for the sick, "In the performance of her duties, she ig said to have been Nery strict—in fact, too strict for the nurses who expressed thelt insatisfaction with her.

A secret meeting was held by: the negotiations with the govern ment was held by in the the nurses on October 22 und it decided to strike on the follow Shanghai Pressmen's, Union on ini morning if four demands. which One of the delegates presented were not granted, ited the capital quoted This deci however, was not Chiang Kai-shek as having Unanimous and 14 rem ikes unless with posts, the other government permission, The de-Tegation were well treated by all with whom they came in contact The new scale of pay drawn up by the Mini of Communications for employees of the Fast Ofice has caused a certain amount of dissatisfaction among the junior clerks, A delegation of five of these Superintendent's Ultimatum, A notice was issued by the medical superintendent that the hospital was not a factory and strikes must not take place at random. The sick had to be cared for, and so. the nurses would be required to perform left for Nankinge to lay their ease the duties expected of them ina conscientious manner. AS to their demands for better treaty would dered.

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