May 24.
'The Municipal Folice were called out yesterday morning to quell a dis. turbance created by 100 painters at the home of the chairman of the painters' union at House 4, Lane 851 Chengtu Road.
The painters called at the address at 718 am. and afler seeing the lunfon official demanded an increase of $1 on their wages and became insistent when their demand was refused. The painters who were employed in various paint shops in the Settlement did not disperse until the terday Sinza police station had been informed and a party of policemen had been despatched to the scene of the trouble. The painters left hurriedly when they saw the police coming.
In connection with, the painters' deadlock with their employers, which had been going on for some time, a the strikers outside Police headquarters on Saturday morning was di persed by policemen from the Cer tral police station,
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