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THE CHINA MAIL.
Welare
MONDAY,
PTEMBER 19, 1911.
Hongkong Steel Foundry Company.
SPECIALISTS
to the Manufacture of
Best Cast -- Steel
Castings.
THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT STRIKE.
Every Description of Castings for,
Shipbuilders, Engineers, Railways;
AND ALL CLASSES OF
Machinery
High-Grade
Castings.
GORDON & Co., General Managers.
dealt with. This introduced a now feature into industrial quarrels in England and the "effect" has “boon"more strikingly soon-st
Intimations:
NOTICE
ז'.
TR HENRI BARBEY, havisa sovered.
M his connection with my firm, ceased
to sign for me per procuration as from lat September, 1911. MA GUMELSINDO JESUS SEQUEIRA will continue to siga for my arm per procuration
A. R. MARTT: Hongkong, September 14, 1191.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL. .....
1179
THE OFFICE of the Undersigned his This Day been REMOVED to No. 4, DES VOEUX ROAD port to the Hong-
A. R. MARTY. Hongkong, September 13, 1911.
| (IFritten specially for the “CHINA Mail.") „Liverpool where all the workers who had It will payer to possible, I imagine, been out on strike, about 70,000 in num. to, complie any accurate list of the ber, all of whose claims had been satisfied, enormous losses which the recent striks refused to go back to work until the two has entailed. To begin with nearly every hundred and fifty dismissed tramway uce person in the community was tuched in I had been reinstated. The London strike the pocket more on less before tarms brought the Port of London to's standstill ponce were arrived at, but some people like just na Hull and Manchester had previously the great provision dealers, the hotel and been brought to a standstill. The London ladging housekeepers at every seaside carnan, Hyhteinen, dockers, coal purtats, and other port workers all came out and rusart, ware; necessarily hit more seriously
for some days the public of London and than the petty trader and householder in the pinch severely. The disaffection spread small provincial towns because of the peculis time of year-ab-which-the-tarmailto post workers and, affected probably kong and Shanghai Bank prevailed. Then again the almost catiu toppage of frade in such cities as Liver pool nad Manchester and other big ondustrial coutres of the north must have sunt the losses incurred up into the -thawande for every big-linu and Lige employer of labour, yet they cannot give anything but approximate figures, in regard to the railway companies some ides enti be COM.Eathored, for they hate to publish weekly returns of traffic receipts. Those just printed, ive pause for serious though.
MANILA Messrs Macondray &
Co. SINGAPORE Mears Borneo Co.
Ltd.
For particulars, apply to
Y. SHIBUYA,
Manager, No. 4 PaDotz STRELI
Honoraro.
Hongkong, April 29, 1911.
818
IN THE MATTER OF THE
PANTES CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1906 (ENGLAND)
AND
IN THE MATTER OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LTD", (IN LIQUIDATION).
The principal goods lines are the chief sufferers. The Great Western's, return | shows a decrease in receipts for the week, in comparison with the corresponding wreck last year, of £91,000 in a total of 8229,000, no less than 40 per cent. The decrease of the North-Eastor's receipts, which bore NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the even more severely the brunt of the strike,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS, NOTE HOLDERS, &C.
Creditors of the above-named Com Fay, which is being voluntarily wound-up, are required, on or before SATURDAY, SU December, 1911, being the day for
that
sand their names and addresses, and the
SAGERIES MARITIMES, LEVANTE LINE, SHIRE purpose fixed by the Undersigned to LINE, KOSMOS LINE & CITIZEN LINE of Steamers and others... At manny highly important Banquets it is the only brandy served.
BUMANN AND BERBLINGER,
15, 16-17, Connaught Road.
Telephone No. 427. Augkong, May 5, 1908
EDAL
PHILADELPH EXHIBI
particulars of their debts or chims, and the names and address of their Solicitors, if ady, to-tho-Undersigned, the
100,000 mes. The Board of Trade - took | action here too, but the understanding that no section would go back to work until all sections were satisfied kept the Port practically closed for somedays." da result of the settlemout the carters got a substantial increase of wagen. Meanwhile there were strikes of tramwaymen sé Lċeda, Glasgow, and other places. AGlasgow Reveral tramoirs were wrecked, but the strike collapsed in a fow days. There was also strikes in the building trade at Bristol, of shipwrights and joiners at Southampton. of matting "wenvory in Enst London, of plumbers in Glasgow, of tabs worker at Landore of card-setting machine tenters at Cleckheaton, of warp weavers hat Skip tan, and eo forth, but these were all small compared with the strikes of transport
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APIOL &STEEL
SomPILLS
À FILDEN HAmedy for sit Zrenguiarizion Flosasods of LAĞIM KIWIJA SAño 6. Una vi Sarila's Pills in the horas,nNG THAT ON 184 GJEL man of say "Teraguinely at iba Byalags, i Simely down tany in adminhterede znow wha Monroemenend sheas, brace. Shans sector. 29004 Hún. Ali Cramiam sad stores mil them 1270002201, 176 Warie, or your w*_£* MARTIN, Caniniai Hogingmgtam K
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workers, and did not involve suything like BACON & HAM
was 28 por cont., but the returs does not the same inconvenience to the public...
Owing to the continunaco of the sectional cover the whole strike period. The Mid-
and had a decrease of £54,000; it seems to brables at Liverpool the shipowners de- have suffered in severely than might have Sared general lock-out, and no socner
been expected. In its case nao, however,
teab ke mas prolonged, and the return
of the mid Company, either at St. George's does not cover the end of the period. Ph Building, Chater Road, Hongking, or largest total decrease is in the case of Thorner's Chambers, Ingram Court, Fen- chanel Street, London. B. (when either the North-Western, whose receipts so sicht claims will be paid or if not schnitted £101,000 lower than in the corresponding notice in writing from the said Liquidator
The Great Central'
(A 01) will be given that they by their Solicitors weck last year.
OAKEY & SONS
JOHN
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TOTAL FUNDS AT SLUT DEC. 1910
£21,262,600
General Merchants Fire Fund 3,812,915-42
and
Commission Agents.
HONGKONG, CANTON,
SHANGHAI AND
HANKOW,
-Authorised Capital £6,000,000. Subscribed Capital £3,814,846 Paid-up Capital £1,607,997 III-Life & Annuity Funds 15,640, 125 9.7 Sinking Fund Account. 97,35518.8
E21,262,693-17 8
(0,373,269 177
Other Roccipta.
Revenue Fire Branch.
Life & Ammuity 1,064,C31 $2
Branches
043,314 10 8
£4971.215:17–6 *The Accumulated. Funds of the Fire and Lita Dogurtments are free from liability to respce. anch-other
SHEWAN, TOSIES & CO.
Tågents,
must come in and prove their said debts decrease was £26.000, had the Gres and chains at such time and place as shail
Le specified in mudy notice) or in default Northem's £16,000. The Scottish lines
was the London dock strike settled than
the railwagen, ie Procutives of whose
four Unions were in Liverpool dealing with a local atriks of their members, thought the time had come for them to have another fight with the companies over the question
of recognition, of their Unions, Alroudy railwaymen were out on strike in soveral towns, and the Executives, acting together
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thereof they will be accluded from the have suffered les severoly, Theffs for the first time, issued an ultimatum to THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.. benefit of any distribution made before Western, whore the strike was practically the companies to the effect that unless
such debts are provod.
1041
uoc-existent, "had's decrcase of £3,200, wr
A. R. LOWE
Liquidatur. Kongsong, August 10, 1911.
about3 per cent, only, the secondary effe of the generalistarbance of business. The DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, decrease on the North Staffordshire line
LIMITED
was 18 per cent, il riz the Taff Yale 42 per cent.
X
THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING of Shareholders will be held at the COMPANY'S UFFICES on SATULL UAY, the 23rd September, at Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the! General Kinngers together with a States
Accounts Jude,
their Unions were zecognised" within. hours they would call a general railway strike. They demanded that the companies ahould meet the representatives of tho Unies to discuss the various matters in [disputo, otherwise all their mos would out. Their owu roles provided that To my readers in Hongkong and Chinoike should be declared without a who may not have followed the strike from ballot, but the Executives ignored that, beginning to end the following faummary rule. Their secretaries wers at once Hum- may be of use, showing as it does how noned to the Board of Trade, and Mr. many wors the trades affected through the sydney Buxton invited the Executivas to latest developments in industrial warfate. London. They tagged all night to The real beginning of the trouble was in respond to the invitation, and after meet the shipping rate. For some wocks prieing Mr Buxton and the Frime Minister to the Citation Mir Havelock Wilson they dospatched telegrams to all their Secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen'a tranchas giving the signs!, to strike. Union, Id been threatening an intera DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,tional strike of sailors. His threats were
LIMITED.
not taken very seriously because hin Union NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that was small, but in June the strike...
ORDINAL VENTRAL declared, and the trouble soon begnu to KEETING of the 'DOUGLAS STEAM spread in England. Some of the shi SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. will be
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cora- pany will be CLOSED from the 9th to the 23rd September, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS ZAPRAIK & Co.,
General Mangers. Hongkong, September 4, 1911.
11
All the world now knows how the
strike ду déclared
Вл and fter prolonged negotiations during which he Government promised a Raya! Com- nission to inquire into the working of the Conciliation Boards, which the men allege
Hongkong. Novembor 12, 1910.,
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Intimations.
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OPPOSITE OLD POST OFFICL.
held at the Company's Offices, on SATUR- owners. At onco gave way, and the che companies have not worked in the OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS.
DAY, the 23rd day of September, 1911, at en 1 was a general increano in wages of 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sailors and remèn Tho disaffectio subjoined Extraordinary Besolation will then spread to the dockers be proposed.
were
(L- Thng Ast. 18 (3) of the Company's. For strikes of dockers in severa Articles of Association be altered by ports, and rioting took place at Hull and substituting the sum of 830,000 for Manchester at the beginning of July. The
• the sum of 820,000 in line two...... 0
Dated the Loth day of September, 1811.
14. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
Should the Resolution ho passed by the Dockers' Union took hold of the unreat and sired Majority, it will be submitted for formulated demands for increased wag confirmation as Special Resolution to a
nbsequently convored Second Extraordinary Meeting which will and better conditions and the disaffectio
spread from port to port. Mr Askwith, of i the Board of Trade, visited Hull and Manchester, and was able to comja » General Managers. Hongkong, September 10, 1911, 1188 differences. In Manchester the dockers were joined by the cartera and other transport THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCEuskera, and it was only in the third work SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General ManagENA, HONGKONG,
Apust that the last of the cartera” gries. aaces was settled" In the ports where the strikes took place tho.scarcity of food antin gan to be folt, and this worn, to have bien an indication to the transport worker
J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGEof their power to force a quick considera
FOL THE EANT, TUKYO.
tion of their demanda. Serious troubl
Total Lazcts Dec. 31, 1930...0.8494,716,923 arose.in Liverpool, Glasgow, and other
„Surplus
Dividends to Policyholders
1910
85,000,450 placus.
10,876,167 On July awstring was organised at the Total paid Policyholders 1010.03,440,309 Tundah Dock by the National Transport Total Experies for IBLO 10,392.092 Gross vatningu from Intéreat d
Worker Telerating, tho various societies and Reistes for, 1910
$1,648,528
640,529 | | xffiliated 14 which acted in copesit, each Gram rate of Income from
Investments 1910 .... 448ection refusing to resume work until the "Hongkong, May 30, 1011.
727 gravaDoo thio"uthor acctions had been.
pirit in which they were established. But
he Liverpool man declined to go back to
SOLE AGENTS,
work because the tramwaymen had come MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. But to help them, and there were still 200 tramwaymen who had come out on strike
Hongkhar, December 17, 1910. 1822 who had not been reinstated. That haculty was overcome on August 24. d ((an inued on Page 7)
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