The British Masonic Hall premises at 1623 Avenue Road, may become FPURNING the pages of Shanghai's history a few years, one notices, with envy, that the number of strikers in the city in those the new 4th United States Marines days was sometimes as low as 75 in a day—in comparison to the Club in Shanghai if the discussions between the officials materialize into 7,500 and sometimes more recorded daily now. True, the high cost something concrete, it was learned yesterday.—(Negdtlations between of living has quite a lot to do with the current labour situation both parties have already opened, a in Shanghai, but the real reason for these troubles lie deeper than though nothing definite has been an-it is noticeable to the eye of the majority of Shanghailanders. nounced as yet.
A three-storey building with large Behind these strikes is a strang or-rooms and an auditorium which suit ganization—the Nanking-sponsored the requirements for a United States SM.C. Issues Its Special Movement: Direction. Com-Marines Club. the building is con-mittes—an organization aiming t0 monopolize the entire labour moveveniently located and if taken over ment in the city, and judging by, the by the American military authorities Second List of number of disputes. this committee would be an excellent substitute for hag more than fulfilled its aims. It it the present Marine Club, it was declared.
The Marines Club, located at present in the former international Reablishment gempathizing with the known that even: employees el est-
creation Club on Bubbling Well Road. was sold to the local Jewish Club
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