The number of rickshaws rented out by the rickshaw hongs thus de-Greased nearly fifty per cent, With 4 view to maintaining the livelihood of the rickshaw coolies, the rick-Shaw hongs did lower the rent of the rickshaws from one. thousand two hundred cash a day to eight hundred cash, However, with a very abundant silk crop this' spring and the reopening of many silk filature social prosperity seems reviving. Many coolies return to Wasih to seek living by pulling rickshaw: As a consequence, there is an over demand for rickshaws, The rickshaw hongs, se the time for recovering their lox jaring the sping, was ripe, there. fore, decided to increase. the rent of, the rickshaws to their normal price of one thousand two hundred fash a day. This brought on the Owing to the str cause of the alleged ill-te employees of the company, Union had previously prevented the merchants "from removing their cargo. Now they may do so provided they sign pledges to "abide by the decisions of the Union."
It is conservatively estimated that goods to the value of over $1,000,000" have been stored in the godowns, consisting mainly of sugar, tobacco, beans, se ground nuts and flour. Tt is that a heavy loss will be the merchants due to the perish= able nature of some of the goods land the adverse effect of the hot
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