Severat hundred block makers em. ployed by more than 20 block-making establishments, practically all of which are located in the Settlement, declared a go.slow strike yesterday at 10 am. "They presented 19 demands four days ago and when their managements did not answer satis. factorily they struck yesterday. The most important demand urges that their wages be increased by §70 each plus a rlee- allowance of $50. The management tried to meet them halt way but the strikers held out. They also demanded a subsidy of $600 for their newly established union taking orders. from union workers of ihe new Chinese regime, The speaker disclosed that 65 per cent. of the officers of the Legion Indo-China today are composed of Germans who, he said, treat the subordinates "with indescribable Drutality resulting in several futile attempts to desert. The Germans, he said, were more interested in their Personal comforts than in mainten-one of discipline or order.
The men were discharged on March 12, dressed in military uniforms without the military. buttons and their regimental. numbers and were allowed to retain their berets, They were shipped off, the speaker said, without receiving any premium, or gratuity for their long and arduous service and most of the mien did not have enough money with which %0 buy even a picket of clyareites or to avy for their hotel bill for one: night after landing here, Tusveuus who go to Tsingtao on land after March '22, must carry Certifeate "of vaccination "against small pox, according to a communi que issued by the Japanese Con Sulate-General in Shanghai, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reports, James Smith, James Smith ihe Aussies Shanghai Boy some of his comrades in arms.
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