The strike at the Wha Tung Elec-trio and Engineering Works, 950 Poi Head, is ended. Of the 243 regular operatives 208 are now working, while the remainder have resigned of their own accord.
This company employs a total of 191 transportation coolies, 84 of whom are union members. The latter failed to turn up for work on Saturday morning.
The Municipal Advocate in. his report for August states that 10,675 cases were prosecuted in the Shang hhal First Special Area District Court and the Kiangsu High Court, Second Branch, during the month, as com pared with 18,050 in July. A total of 7149 persons failed to appear in petty bye-law cases and their bail was confiscated, as compared with 8,788 persons in July. Fifty. cases were withdrawn on the ground that there was insufielent evidence to convict, as compared with $4 in July.
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