Several thousand weary pickets, including at least 1500 Chinese, abandoned their vigil on the local waterfront today after- preventing the loading of scrap iron for Japan when longshoreman refused to pass through the picket lines representing 55 California organizations, After the pickets left the piers, longshoreman immediately began loading cargo aboard ships held up here for more than 24 hours because of the picket line, one of the largest ever established here Associating themselves with "Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression" headed by Col. Henry Stimson, former Secretary of State, the pickets patrolled the waterfront with banners condemning Japanese aggression in China and demanding that the flow of American raw materials and munitions to Mr. Chikayuki Akagi, Special Deputy Commissioner of Police, planning to distribute his salary crease among Japanese policemen. the "Shanghai Mainichi" stated tion was expected to mitigate dissatisfaction felt by minor Japanese officials over the wide discrepancy in the salary increases recently announced by the Shanghai Municipal Council the journal said.
Adding its voice to the chorus of critical blasts hurled at the S.M.C. for its hotly discussed salary policy, the "Mainichi" said the increases would benefit only the high officials, while those in the lower strata would not gain much by the pay boosts.
Much interest in the question has been manifested by the Japanese community, the paper said.
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