Local Japanese newspapers yesterday accused the National Salvation Association of attempting to organize a "sit-down" strike in Japanese-owned factories in China. Instructions alleged to have been issued by the Association to workers' organizations in Japanese factories urged a concerted move, instead of individual strikes which could easily be put down by "Japanese capitalists."
Before launching on a strike, the association, according to identical reports in the three newspapers, urged the workers to hold mass meetings to formulate their demands.
"If this procedure is followed," the instructions are asserted to have said, "employers would hesitate to resort to force and would be prevented from engaging strike breakers. It is also certain that neither soldiers nor policgnen would interfere with the strike"
Alleged io. have offered to settle a claim of $92,532.78 for $31,000 and then escaped after issuing worthless cheques, Sau Yau-sz a shareholder of a Chinese silver ornaments store, was charged with fraud in the First Special District Court yesterday morning. The case was adjourned for further investigation According to the complainants, four in number, the Civil Division of the Court had issued a restraint against Sau's property after the closure of the silver store. The property was valued at $100,000, while the total claim against the store by the four complainants was $92,532.78.
Negotiations were, however, started out of court with the complainants which ended with the accused agreeing to pay $18,000 in cheques, and $13,000 in cash. With this agreement, the accused sold his property. The cheques were found worthless.
The accused was arrested by Det. Sub-Inspr.. Ovsfannikoff at 686 Avenue Haig. He vigorously denied to having escaped, saying that he had been on sick leave in Tsingtao.
Hunger Strike If employers fail to satisfy the workers' demands, the instructions are said to have counselled, a hunger strike should be called by the employees of Japanese and British plants.
The association, which the papers said is "closely linked with the Communists" urged the workers, however, not to resort to violence, such, for instance, as the locking of the gates of factories in which the "sit-down" strike is being staged.
The association, according to the papers, promised the would-be strikers to stage sympathetic demonstrations without the factory gates.
"Instigated by the Communist Party", the papers said, "the association' is launching a new nationwide anti-Japanese movement, dovetailing with the Kuomintang-sponsored campaign of boycott of smuggled goods opened on July 1."
The Association was also charged by the papers with seeking the release of all imprisoned anti-Japanese leaders.
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