Fixed Extra Sum Promised for Wage Increases: Unrest Among Postal Workers Grows Tokyo, May 5.
Unrest among Government com: miunteations employees to-day had spread to postal workers.
'Shitaya Post OMice members of the shilaya' Branch of the Communte tions Employees Union this morning resolved to demand 20 per cent. Increase in wages. Postal and telegraph employees throughout Japan Number more than 200,000.
"A_general strike of 200,000 railway workers. was barely averted carly this morning, as. their leaders accepted a compromise. proposal made by the Ministry of oilways, "the nature of which neither party would reveal.
The agreement was reliably Yearned include provisions that the Ministry will appropriate "more than Y.5,000,- 000" per annum to raise the wages of iis employees with effect before June 15, and as high as possible from 'Workers' representatives, while acopting these terms, made it clear they Intend to present the authorities with @ fet of counter-proposals.
The accord ended an incident staysttiice of more than 3,000 railwaymen who locked themselves into the Rallwaymen's Club soon after mid-ight when the Ministry of Railways elected a demand for % per. cen eld at Odawara yesterday, who, with about 1,000 supporters, came, up to 'Tokyo from 'Odawara and seize' the Taliwayman's Club, OMcials of the Ministry fear the strike movement will gather momer tum at the congresses. of oilway workers, to be held at eight different ports of Japan for ten days, beginning to-day.
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