When customers of the dairy were informed of the situation, "many of them decided to collect' the milk themselves or sent their coolies, In the meantime. the foreign staff' are Jdoing their est to cope with the situation, milking the cows and doing the pasteurizing. themselves, demands have been presented by the strikers and it Is believed that their grievances are not based on Questions of wages as the Chinese staff were given an increase only recently, Friction appears to have foreurred between the foreign and Chinese staffs, and the strikers will buobably request the dismissal of the foreign supervisers before they resume work—a demand which the manage-event will definitely turn down, Another 500 men were added to the idle lists of strikers yesterday when this number of stocking dyers all over [the city suspended work, their aim being to secure better working con: ditions, Minor clashes broke out fourly inthe day and two or three of the strikers were arrested by the French police,
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