Some 600 employees of the three Woo Woo weaving factories in the Settlement and French Concession resumed work yesterday. having beer: granted some of their demands. The dispute broke out a few weeks ago at all the branches simultaneously.
The other strikes remained without change. these being Paton and Baldwins. Commercial Press, stocking dyeing factories. small Chinese garages. painting establishments, and the Shanse Theatre.
It is reported that the employees of the garages. some 300 drivers tin the employ of eighteen establishments. have submitted a demand that their rice allowance by increased to $93. Negotiations between the managements and the drivers are proceeding, and an early settlement is anticipated.
The strike at the Shanse Theatre broke out on Monday afternoon, during the 230 p.m. performance. The show was stopped half way through and some disorder. created by patrons who demanded that their money refunded, occurred efforts to reduce prices of the Yesterday morning. politically tnspired union workers were seen riding Jon bicycles and advising rice shop employees to cease business. Questioned. employees declared that they had called a strike, but that in view of police intervention they still sold rice to customers buying small quan-of the grain ata time.—This poor who vice with purchases yesterday. but when a strike is definitely declared. a serious situation may develop. In the afternoon, the rice shops did more business and in many cases the poor could make purchases at the counter and not through the back er side doors.
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