Several hundred shoemakers were still idle yesterday, their demands for higher wages ahd living allow any ces being turned down. A. similar Sate of affairs existed in the French Concession where approximately} 1,000 workers of stocking factories! stuck' two days ago when their re-Quest for more money, was rejected. Workers of spectacle shops, number ing about 600, were also on strike yesterday, Their demands included 120 per cent. increase "on wages find $45 as rice allowance.
Clouds gathered on the labour horizon yesterday as it, was reported that employees of the Commercial Press might strike in the near future, The workers made demands several weeks ago, but these could not be granted by the management, It wa3 Feported that the business of the concern, the largest of its kind in China, had not been very good since! the beginning of the Sino-Japanese hostilities and that the company was] overstaffed. Should a strike be de-] lared, the' ranks of the "displeased" would' increase by more than 500.
'Meanwhile. the meat situation in' the Concession was growing worse! yesterday, no settlement of the dis ute' at' the French Municipal 'The employees of the Cathay' and Metropole Hotels continued with their Work og usual until about 5.30 p.m. when the servants of the former establishment informed the management that they would also strike unless the demands of their colleagues at the Cathay Mansions were accepted.
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