by "Regency" now Ovum Own Conmesroxpent Canton, Sept. 1.
The Seamen's Union is having a Jgrand "and glorious time, aug-blenting vastly its power and prestige at the expense of Messr But-tee field & Swire and Chinese merchants who habitually patronise B. & S. vessels. With the other most "powerful of unions, the Mechanics Institate, it is the other way around. It has hag a great all from off its high horse, What th the expulsion of President Lee Tak-hin, "and his underlings and their supersession by a. Patty-ap. Pointed board of administration, Fezency which will hold-over unt the Augen stable has been swept Certain labour bodies affiliated with the Institute had " become grossly" diesatinted. with. the late President's dictatorial policies, and pur Unis' heads. together "and befame authors of a joint declaration that" ripped" Lee" Talchin up the Back, "Bald. the' motor" mechanics, A und' of $260,000 which we sei side fo cover tinea ud amrced Involving ur members: was approx damages growing out of accidents
Eas not. accounted to ts) for "our lated "by the Presidents and) he
money. whish he. took. "When "we Sent to make inquiry, our invest ators. were taken. guido and given "beating: It inter developed' that misuse, was: made of the names Joe some unions appended to this defloration, at' more than one has stuck by' all that this wordy state-iment with its many charges as-
The steam roller that the rebels jut in motion crushed all before it, snd the demand for a change of administration was approved of by the Kuomintang, and a board of jdeven sent to take avar the man-Jagement of the Mechanics Institute, [President Lee "put one over" on the board when he got a day's respite, ind when the new rulers came next day they found twenty of the off-leers and their staff had decamped, fand that, the Institute seals portant files and account books, and lot of cash was missing.
The Sunning Railway Back in 1927 Lee Tak-hin was insulted by the mechanics of the Suaning railway, "who were alone
Pressure to have the whole 10 kick:
alist sy and be. brought istic actions, and he
fed out by their employers. Those ruling in the intereegoum have ately. advised the railway to reem-ploy the entire body of 28, Since 1927 retrenchment has been prac-ised "by. the Sunning railway, however, and it will face a Toss if has" to. take on so. many mechanics. It has asked that the Mechanics Institute's board of adfministraters should' approach its board of directors in" Hongkong jand at all events. it asks to. be Felieved from the necessity of adding to its expensee by increasing its [stag by so many highly-paid ex Meanwhile, warrants are out for the twenty of the Institates stall who cleared out without waiting to
charge preferred against them is restive the incoming "beard The not of malfeasance in office, but of Teaving in the way ey did, and {for making of with Institute pro-
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