Although a high official of the Shanghai Gas Company expressed of|hope on Friday that a settlement in the Gas strike would be reached in the near future, Mr. Vu Ya Ching, veteran Chinese philanthropist here, who was called upon to bring about an understanding between the administration and the strikers, stated yesterday that he was afraid he would fail in his mission.
The determination of the strikers not to accede to the company's tounter-demands makes mediation very difficult, while the administr tion, with gas supply maintained at normal, refuses to recognize the demands of the striking Chinese.
It may be recalled that the strike started over three weeks ago when the workmen of the distribution department of the company attempted to force the administration to accede to their demands by declaring a g slow strike. When the management refused to deal with the strikers on the spot, declaring that the strike should be negotiated in the proper the 180 workmen of the
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