There were seventeen strikes, involving 4479 workers a.d resulting in the loss of 10,307 working days. Three other strikes affected both the Settlement and French Concession.
The concerns affected included two newspaper afüces, two printing works, bank godowns, clothing shops. barber shops, a cable company, a tobacco factory. a stocking dyeing factory, a cardboard box factory, shoe compa: y, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Shanghai Electric Construction Compary and Shanghai Telephone Company.
In addition to the strikes, there were fourteen cases of unrest amongst employees of other industrial concerns, The number of workers employed in industrial concerns situated in the Settleme-t and extra-Settlement roads area of the Western District during January was approximately 226.513 as compared to 205445 in January 1940.
No less than 12.716 refugees were housed i" January in eleven camps, in addition to 502 patients undergoing medical treatment at three emergency hospitals.
Approximately 259.314 bags of for-cion rice (324.142 zars) and about 2.600 zars of domestic rice arrived in Shanghai during January. The stock of rice held in the Settlement and French Concession at the end of the month was approximately 577,000 zars, in addition to 90.006 zars stored in godowns in Pootung.
Five rice dealers were prosecuted for transacting rice above the official price limits. Four were convicted and one was acquitted. The average prices of rice for the month are as follows:—
Ka.: Mee. $93.96 to $103.56 per zar; Nui Mee, $8804 to $91.74 per zar; Saigon Rice, $80.80 to 85.54 per zar.
Cheap rice sales were conducted between January 7 and January 19 at 60 desig.ated rice shops in the Settlement and French Concession.
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