In a report submitted the Treasurer stated that in view of the technical character of the majority of the allocations appertaining to the activities of the Public Works Department, it was deemed more appropriate for amendments occasioned by Feeently approved revisions of allowances for personnel and casual labour, as well a5 variations' in the costs of materials and services, to be effected by that, department.
"The Commissioner of Public Works was in agreement with this view= point and accordingly presented his Preliminary Estimates in such a manner as to provide for known Justments to date including an estimate of the cost of reinstituting long eave on a modified basis for certain The Preliminary Estimates in their resent form call for an anticipated expenditure during 1941 of some '$10,200,130. an increase of $5,112860 or 100.50 ner cent. as compared with the budgetary allotment of $5,087,270 for last year, Meanwhile, approximately 180 workers of hide and skin shops in the Settlement have returned to.work, their dispute having been favourably settled. 'The strike at the Vienna Knitting 'Factory in Jansen Road, where 125 workers are idle, continues unabated, No settlement is in sight, it is learned, Neither the management nor the' strikers wish to make any concessions, Mar. 4.
A now strike flared up yesterday, was reported, when 120 employees of the Shanghai Waterworks Ca. walked out on their jobs yesterday without making any demands for Pay. As far as it could be ascertained, the men left because they were afraid of the Japanese prose ings, which are said: to be operat again the north of the Soochow Creek' area.
Labour disputes wore 10s yesterday since some 1,000 Chinese printer, on strike since Saturday morn-Ing, returned. to work Ju the morning! 'These men, it was said, walked Out as a sign of sympathy' for the ringleaders of the attack on. the Ong Shing Printing Ca, of. 464.24 Shanfialkwan Road, who were arrested by the police.
Other troubles included one at the Vienna Knitting Factory in Jansen Road, where 125 workers struck several days ago when their dee mands for bigger pay were rejected by the management, Another. weave ing factory in Ferry Road was idle yesterday since the workers, some 130 in number, refused to work unless their demands were satisfied, 'Tue Shanghai Municipal Council health report for the week ending midnight March 1, shows. that. the oral number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign' and Chinese population in the Settlement was—Foreigners 19 and Chinese 1209, Deaths from notifiable diseases were—Foreigners, measles 2 and tuberculosis one, Chinese, tuber Gulosis 81; typhoid fever 26;-measles 21; dysentery 5; cerebrospinal fever 4;'berl-beri" 4; diphtheria 2; me fvenza 2 and malaria, relapsing fever one each.
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