Penang Road was the scene of a minor strike yesterday, this being declared by six workers. Just as in the case of the Hawley and Hazel dispute, the factory continues operations with the non-striking workers. The six strikers, it is learned, have submitted a demand for an increase wages.
Meanwhile, a strike was averted at the Arnhold Trading Company Hide Tannery at 54 Singapore Road when some sixty employees received an increase in pay. Another dispute was settled on Monday to bring about 100 workers back to work. This was at the Dong Fong Dyeing and Weaving Factory in Point Road. The factory was closed do: on June 13, as a precautionary measure against agitation going among the workers. The factory was reopened yesterday and the workers returned to their jobs, The employees of tea merchants, it was reported, returned to work pending negotiations with their employers.
Unrest at the China General Omnibus and French Tramway companies continued to be featured by the Nanking-sponsored dailies here, but nothing serious has so far been reported. All services are maintained normally. ing assistance to private enterprise.
Informed quarters said that Federal officials now conceive of the food storage plan as an interim programme, to cover the time between a potential interruption of transport communications (between the land and Hawaii or the Philippines) and the time when the first emergency food crops could be grown This period would cover approximately six months, It was estimated that sugar lands and other cultivated areas in both Hawaii and the Philippines would be converted to food crops the moment any maritime danger appeared, Informed sources said that Hawai would store up emergency supplies of rice. wheat. cattle feed, canned milk and butter to supplement the regular commercial supplies—United Press
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