The Servants Union to-day issued mphlets containing the demands: they intend to present to the British Consul. These follow:
'1.—Members cannot be dimi ed or in any way oppressed. Should employees have cause for complaint they must inform the Union, who will deal with the matter.
2—Wages must be increased per a scale issued by the Political Bureau. They must be increased yearly and a month's wages must} be given in Chinese New Year.
'3-—The Union shall superintend members' behaviour and the Union's inspectors shall visit at] their discretion the premises which members are employed.
4.—Employers must provide medical attention except in cases of_vencreal disease.
—Three week's holiday must be given yearly or a month's pay! instead.
6.—Vaeancies gs they occur must be filled by the Union.
A limit of seven days is givenly: for accedence to the demands. that the whole of the first month's: increase goes to the union in question and 10 per cent. of the sueceedmonths' extra pay. It is understood that the union pays over a large portion, variously estimated at between 50 and 90 per cent. of this to the Political Bureau, The latter, it might bs mentioned, is the mainspring of the Southern movement, in which it exercises great power. Its membership com-rises heads of the Government and lof the Kuomintang. At present it is more or less dominated by extremists—Reuter.
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