The Archive · 1933

Many Improvements

Continuing, Dr. Huang stated that, since the destruction of the ration building last year, no waiting accommodation had been provided for the upper class passengers, not to say the lower class passengers. In the new building, a portion' of the ground floor had been allotted as waiting rooms for the upper class passengers while the awning in the Tear would be utilised to provide waiting rooms for the third and fourth class passengers. Baggage and cloak rooms were specially provided so that Passengers who came to Shanghai for a, short duration might leave their" baggage in the station with- Ca. lout carrying them about, Arrange. L. rents had also been made with the ignoring this order wil ith according to regulations.

'With the return to work on Sept. 11 of 630 persons in West Hong-Kew filatures, the situation is} normal in. the' Settlement.

Only 200 employees of the Hong! Foong Cotton Mills, there having been 1,750 on strike last Friday, are away from their looms. A manifesto, issued during the weekend, indicates their demand for restoration of the bonus system and. an increase of five cents per dav Soto A, {acorporated under the Compass

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