Edition Produced Despite Absence of Men On October 10 the printers of the "Shanghai Evening Post" did not turn up until 9 am, instead of 8 o'clock, and they then held a meeting which' lasted about twenty five minutes after which they went to the manager and presented demands, the chief of which was for the recognition of nine holidays in addition to the usual Sundays, The me include four days for the New Veir, Good Friday and Chinese National holidays, i They were told that in the absence of Mr. Carl Crow, the editor and publisher, their demands could not be considered and upon: the men insisting the works closed, We are informed that earlier in the year the management had the question of holidays under consid ation and granted an increase of wages with this spetifie matter in view.
The management feels that the men are well paid and, we understand, they are not prepared to discuss further matters with the workers, As far as can be ascertained, a few of the union members wish' return to work. With the assistance lof few other men, it has been possible to produce the paper daily.
The strike of typesetters and Linotype operators was followed by a strike of the delivery coolies, No demands were made by the men but merely refused to work, Apparently the action of the de livery coolies was taken as an expression of agreement and sympathy with conditions demanded by the printers and linotype operators, In a manifesto which the printers Ihave issued they say:—
"We, the workers of the Evening Post' are being. trodden wuder the iron heel of the—in pevialists and are forced to work ike cows and horses. The—impenalists have gone s far og to dismiss us all because we, out of patriotism, applied for a holiday on Qetober 10 on the occasion of the double-ten celebrations. could not stop work on that day, we requested our employers to pay us hal€ a day's wages. 'The workers of the 'Shanghai Times' were seven tone extra day's pay on this occasion but the management of the Shanghai Evening Post? not only has jected our request but has forcibly [Kicked as out, "As we are weak we could not offer any resistance ant had to evacuate the premises, We were left without assistance so we Peal to the public for their xympathetic support and we are sui that we will win a victorious fight We understand that the management of the "Shanghai Evening Post" will not take back the men and they are now engaged in selecting an entirely new staff of printers and delivery coolies. It will some little time before the right men can be found but in the mean: time the paper will appear as usual remaining Chinese, ised the suspicion of the dete: tives was the fact that the robbe were Anhui men and the accused was also an Anhui man, On these points the police asked that the watchman should be kept in custody pending further inquiries before the ease would come up gain. An adjournment for one week was set. pictured will shortly be put in line. They can accommodate run on a half-hourly schedule,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.