The Shanghai Municipal Police rested 29 rice shop strikers yesterday morning in connection with labour disputes which had hit some 900 rice hops in the International Settlement and French Concession. Tt is estimated that about 1:000 out of 5.000 rice shop assistants have struck in an effort to obtain better conditions from their employees.
The trouble first loomed several days ago when rice merchants were presented with twenty demands by their employees. the latter asking for increases in pay and rice allowance among other things. These demands. it is understood, have not been fav-curably answered by rice shop owners, with the result that about 1.000 shop assistants and coolies declared a strike Yesterday morning. the strikers attempted to force the non-striking employees to join the movement. To do this they resorted to intimidation. but were rounded up by police and arrested. The first arrest took place at about 10 a.m. in the Sinza district ere eight men were taken into custody up to 11.25 zm. Twenty in timidators were ested in the Chengtu Road district at about 10.20 am., while yet another was apprehended by police attached to Bubbling Well station.
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