"The Shanghai Municipal Council has appointed a Special Committee consisting of Messrs. E. F. Harris, Yulin Hsi; T. K, Ho, Deputy Secretary, Miss E. M. Hinder, Chief of the Industrial Section, and the Rickshaw Control Offiter, to review the whole position of the rickshaw industry which appeers again to be in a very unsatisfactory state. The rising cost of materials, etc, has seriously affected the owners. The Pullers' Mutual Aid "Association. is experiencing serious financial difficulties. immediate ' attenxed? on! the reduction of prices
alarm, his Chinese press as a whole wide the situation with 1 e situation wil
again blamed manipulators for thè increas of prices here, Dealings must zit was urg [outside the Shanghai Rice was alleged it profiteers had" been rumours in the rice market rickshaws' be increased by 15 cents a day, with effect from June 20, and that the Council make am additional grant to the Pullers' Mutual Aid Association of 50 cents per rickshaw per month, with effect from the month of July.
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