"Manager: of rice shops hurriedly called a meeting in preparation for a "mediation" meeting which union workers planned to hold today in their offices in the Western District It the managers do not give a satisfactory answer at this meeting t situation will be aggravated. Union fees. it is learned. have already been collected from rice shop employees by union workers well dressed in foreign clothes. Their monthly p. ments range between $2 and $3 and the total is said to be a big one. qs there are about 800 rice shops here. The collection of the union fees end the impending increase of wages and allowances will cause managers to pay more and to increase prices. Many demands have been presented and the chief ones are the increase of rice allowance by $50 and of their wage to $140. In other words, they want their future wage to be seven times the one which they had been earning during the pre-war days.
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