Beancurd Workers Union Raided in Chapei for Not Obeying'
Orders: Dressmakers' Employees Strike Settled by duce Political Background Reports that the newly formed Amalgamated Association of Jo panese Cotton Mill Workers' Unions are bent upon calling a strike in all Japanese cotton mills, coupled with a recommendation' by the Amalgamated Street Unions to the National Government that Chinese Bureau: Attempt to Control Local Labour cotton mills be assisted, Jend colour to rumours that agitate At 2 o'clock on November 18 decided to strike within two weeks. tempting to give a political back-the headquarters of the Bean-As previously pointed out in the ground to labour disputes in which urd Workers Union in Chinese "North-China News," thers Japanese factories are concerned. territory was raided by Chapel was no talk of a strike among tke The flimsiness of the excuse for police and nine members of the employees of the French tramways, the strike of 340 day shift workers union who were on the premises were waterworks, and elect ight works of the China Offset Printing Comined." The beaneurd workers before the trouble of the refusal of pany,-4 Tsitsihar Road, a Japanese cannot be ranked among the hot-; the Chinese municipality to agree concern, supports this belief. The blooded Intourers in this commun! }to the junction of the emergency' kers walked out on account of but they have been out on itch at -the time of the myster-alleged assault made on one of strike for some time with the usual fous double rupture of the cables their number by a Russian watch-demands for higher pay and short connecting the French pumping The assault occurred when a er hours; in itself the strike has station. Since that time the Social Chinese workman refused to show been of little importance, hut Bureau has taken an active part his badge to an Indian watchman jumped into the limelight' when it in the grievances discovered by the when entering the works, and start-was known that the Bureau of So-tramway workers, and has even altercation when the Indian cial Affairs of the Municipality of Hone so far as to have included in 'Seeing the two men Greater Shanghai was busying it- the workers' demands that "all a Russian watchman selt in an "investigation." rules and conditions prepared by the came up to separate them and while Members of the Beancurd Work-\company in controlling the work-doing éo struck the Chinese a blow lers be sent to the Social Bureau of on the kand, inflicting a very slight ers Union apparently saw in reason for this "investigation" and
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