Gambling, Opium Trafficking Carried Out Openly, Annual Police Report Reveals; Strikes Increase concluding article summarizing the annual report of the Commissioner of Police to the Municipal Council follows Situation in Extra-Settlement Roads Area in the Western District. Gambling, opium trafficking and smoking, and other kinds of vice were opahly ¢arried out in the outside roads area with the result that the place has become the haunt of professional criminals and notorious loafers whose activities àre a menate to law abiding residents in that district. At the end of the year there were in this area 24 gambling dens, 200 Hwa Wei Lottery dens,"42 opium hongs and 100 opium smoking dens, Refugees—The number of refugees and that of the camps in which the: were accommodated wes gradually reduced during 1939: In January there were in the Settlement 68 camps housing a total of 49,844 refugees, but at the end of the year there were only 29 camps and 31,692 refugees, in addition to some 3,998 living in alleyways, and vacant houses, Strikes.—There were 96 strikes in the Settlement in 1939 as against 21 in 1938. The number of hands affected and number of working days lost were 24,628 and 100,840 respectively as compared with 6,149 and 27,814 in 1938.
The concerns affected are classified as follows Silk Printing.
Food and drinks 8 Coolies Textile 6 Miscellaneous Public Utilities 8
Forty-six strikes were declared in connection with the problem of wages, increased cost of living being the chief impetus, 14 with engagement or dismissal of workers, 32 with demands for better treatment, 2 with changes in the system of working and 2 for miscellaneous reasons, Statistics of strikes for 1039 in Shanghai are as follows No. of strikes Settlement Trench Conees-sion Chinese Territory COL. 10 2 area (Sett. and French Con.) hanas days lost ins 3,648
2222
4,624—498,507
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