The number of strikers dunnished by 1,000 yesterday. when the employees of rice shops in the International Settlement and French Concession resumed work after they had been promised that their employers: would review the: r demands. These, may be recalled, were twenty in The brief strike of the 1.000) most 30 men on Wednesday, they being taken Into custody for intima. ating shop owners and. non-striking assistants and agitating among them. The arrested men have not been freed.
This was the only change recorded yesterday morning and the. report that painters. some 4.000 in umber, would return to their jobs was found to be without base. No indications with regard to the settlement of the Gispute were seen yesterday, accord ing to circles close to labour here.
There are still about 6,000 on striice {in the foreign areas of the city, with the disputes at Patons and Baldwins, the " Commercial Press, stocking dyeing factories, and Chinese garages deadlocked.
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