Strikers Seek Relief and Ask Reopening Quiet reigned on the British Cigarette Ca. strike front in Pootung. last Wednesday. The banners of the maintenance and propaganda corps formed by the Strike Committee are still to be seen in the vicinity of the "new" factory whose 4,000 workers walked out about six weeks {in protest against the closing of the "old" factory, Pootung, by the management.
Fitty-eight members of the Strike Committee, including Chen Bei-ten and a number of workers, made further appeal to the Shanghai City Government on Tuesday asking for relief for the operatives coi {in the dispute, as well securing wages due to the workers of the "old" factory, and reopening of the concern. The callers were received by Mr. O. K. Yui, Secretary of the City "Government, who promised to negotiate with the management regarding their requests.
The General Labour Union despatched an express letter to. General Chiang Kalshek on Tuesday, requesting him to devise measures to Sellle the dispute.
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