Fifty Chinese painters employed in the woodwork industry who went on strike ten days ago with 2,000 others, to enforce a demand for higher wages, invaded a painters' shop on Markham Road early yesterday morning and staged a demonstration. They damaged furniture and fixtures in the shop valued at $500 before leaving the establishment.
About an hour later twenty other painters visited another painters' shop at 191 Burkill Road wher they created a disturbance.
The strike was reported to have been called off during the week-end after the employers promised to increase the daily wage of each painter from 92 cents to a dollar, and give them a rice allowance of 85 instead of 57 cenis. The demon-strafers yesterday were not satisfice with the new wage. Disgruntled they decided to take the law into their own hands. The disturbance. were reported to the Police, Japan Queries U.S. Ban On Tools Exports Washington, June 15.
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, called on Assistant Secretary of State, A. A. Perle today to discuss the embargo placed by the U.S. Government on exports of machinery and tools to Japan, After the meeting, Mr. Horinouchi told the press that he had merely "tried to clarity the Japanese position" in regard to the embargo. He said he knew nothing of negotiations for a new Japanese-American trade treaty.—Havas.
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