Settlement Complete disruption of the tramway service in the International Settlement occurred yesterday when 2,500 Chinese operatives of the company, including drivers, conduct lors and coolies, walked out on strike.
The walk-out started early in the morning when hundreds of Chinese employees of the company went on strike at the Baikal Road depot of the company.
As a result of the strike no trams were on the streets of the Settlement yesterday and the buses were overcrowded and the public rickshaws did a brisk business.
'A report that 800 mechanics of the China General Omnibus Company later in the morning staged a strike believed to be in sympathy with thes Tramway strikers—was denied by an official of the company yesterday afternoon, who emphatically declared that there has been no trouble whatever in the company.
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