Situation n French Concession Unchanged Labour Unions Hold Portentous Meeting Shanghai. Sept. 30.
HE rumbling of buses and clanging of tramcars in the Settlement carly yesterday morni 1 heralded to the 600,000 city workers, the foreign and Chinese members of the rank and file who utilize these two services as their sole means of transport, the end of the strikes of operatives and workers of the China General Omnibus Company and the Shanghai Electric Construction Com= pany (the tramways).
The termination of the deadlocks, the gravest the Settlement has witnessed for many years, is reported to be coincident with certain eoneessions made by the two companies to the "strikers, including the granting special allowance of to each worker of $10.50 per month and payment of wager during the period the men have been laying.off. Immediate resumption of work by the. strikers believed to be a condition pre~ cceding,-any_ discussion between them find the companies concerned of more than a score of demands which have been made on the employers.
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