Extraordinary Terms Contained in Their Three Days'
Ultimatum to Company The French Concession Tramway Waterworkers Union at West Gate, one of the most strongly organized and anti-foreign workers' bodies in Shanghai, presented on the morning of November 8 to the French Tramway Company a set of 16 demands with @ request for favourable action within three days The Union is further understood to have stated that if the company should fail to reply within the specified time serious consequences would follow until the workers obtained their objectives.
Following the collapse of the Shanghai Postal strike and knowing of the close affiliation between the two unions mentioned, the feeling is aprond in well informed cit-deo that there is more to the mat-persons when the story of their actions is told. Let it be said, however, that the stand taken by the workers is not entirely of their own volition. There are other forces at work whose names, for the present, cannot be given, It will, nevertheless, be remembered that considerable trouble occurred recently in regard to the water supply in the Concession. On this occasion, the Municipality of Greater Shanghai refused to coneet the emergency cable between the French pumping station and the Chinese power station thereby ex-Posing the residents of the Concession to great danger in the event of fire and seriously inconveniencing residents ¢through lack of water pressure, ter than is apparent on the surface.
It is understood that the entire programme of demands have been approved by the local Kuomintang headquarters, They are as follows 1. That the Labour Union be recognized and be the sole organiza~ Hien" entitled to represent the workers, 2, That no workers be dismissed without "reason and that special commendation be awarded to the diligent workers.
8, That all workers who have een dismissed since September 20, de reinstated and that wages be issued to them for the period during which they wore idle.
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