terday already approved Representatives, for US$140,802,000 for construction work at shore stations.
The Senate increased by: US$15, 000,000 the amount approved by the House and the House approved the increase.
Meanwhile, Rear Admiral R. E.
told'the House Naval Com. mittee that the Maritime Commission's tonnage would necessarily be handed over to the Navy if the latter "by any chanes" was directed to hand over tankers and other craft to "some foreign power."
'Admiral Ingersoll, therefore, recommended that the committee approve the construction of 200,000 chestra more tons of' naval auxiliaries and ances, asked US$25,000,000 more for a marine and air base 30 miles north of the proposed "Wilmington, Del, naval training centre.—Unitéd Press.
The dispute ended partly at 750 am. when the coolies removed the barricades and thus released the foreigners, no harm to whom had been caused by the strikers. The majority of them went back to work, while about 70 remained idle. The trouble started and ended without interference on the part of the S.M.P.
Chinese reports, however, claimed that the strike had been called because of the low wages being received by the coolies One of the papers recently published an interview with one of the organizers of the P.W.D. coolies' union, in which the reporter quoted the man as saying that they, ihe coolies, were being victimized by capitalists, since they were paid about $20 or $30 per mensem, whereas all other Council employees had received substantial increases in the past few months.
The labour situation, otherwise, was without a change yesterday, with the workers of the Tung Hwa Paint Ca. Hart Road still on strike. Another dispute at the Great Eastern Engineering Works, also continued.—Both strikes were started after demands French Police Arrest Suspected Car Thief for an increase in pay had been Bani made and no favourable answer had been received by the workers.
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