Indications point to a resumption of work in many of the mills which have been closed since the trouble broke out on January 28. At one time upwards of 250,000 industrial employees in the Greater Shanghai area, including Pootung and Woosung, were idle, During the past ten days a number of Chinese mills. have opened under restricted labour conditions, the day shifts being smaller than at normal times, while only in isolated instances are night shifts working.
rhe total number of concerns funejing under these arrangements is 67, giving employment to nearly, 60,000 operatives. The number of unemployed locally, is about 150,000 persons. Tt goes without saying that such mills as the Wing On in Woosung, the Commercial Press Chapei and a large number of silk filatures and other factories destroy:
by bombs and fre, ust remain closed until re-organisation plans have been completed and new struc~ tures built or leased.
It is reported, however, that nine mills of the Neigai Wata Kaisha cot an ton syndicate have: each employed '200 persons to clean and repair the machinery. These miles are in the Pootoo Road
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