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"RED" THREAT IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT."
C.N.C. STRIKE.
OFFICERS DISMISSED.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20th, 1927.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
STRIKE AT AMOY.DEAL IN CIGARETTES
EVERY ATTEMPT TO BE MADE
TO RESUME SAILINGS.
STATEMENT BY THE CABLE CO.
WAGES AND CONDITIONS OF
SERVICE.
The following statement, dated Shanghai, July 9th, has been issued by the Great Northern Telegraph
FAILURE OF CONSIGNMENT
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TO ARRIVE.
INTERESTING SUMMARY
ACTION.
An interesting action concerning contract for the delivery of
TRAFFIC COURT CASES.
PASSING A STATIONARY TRAM CAR.
REPULSE BAY SMASH.
It was stated in Hong Kong on Monday that the China Navigation their STRIKERS AFRAID FOR THEIR Company had issued notices
officers and engineers on strike that they might regard themselves as with the strike of their Chinese Court yesterday before the acting tarday morning in connection with
FUNDS.
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dismissed,
No official confirmation that such
notices had been issued was obtain. able here, but a Beuter's cable to hand from Shanghai now states that such action has beca taken.
Labour pickets in Fati, opposite Shamoon, have been able the last few days to force the stoppage of work at the Kwong Yick Match" "Factory and to take possession of Of course, when men strike, they
the cremises. Neither the Police
dismiss themselves automatically nor the Military cared or could
and the issue of the notices referred. intervene on behalf of the owners, As a result of a labour quarrel into must consequently be regarded Canton on Monday morning, some mere formality. When the 15 men are reported as missing and strike had just commenced some of
14 as wounded.
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Co., Ltd, of Denmark, in connection
employees' at Amoy:-
Several cases of publio interest cigarettes, which, it is stated, never were heard before Major C. Will arrived, was begun at the Summary son at the Central Magistracy yes
Puisne Judge (Mr. P. Jacks).
The Honesty Company of Hong
traffic offences
Mr. R. W. Smith, of the Hong
Canadian Commercial Agency, alsoared for driving a car pasta Kong claimed against the China Kong Electric Company, was sum- of Hong Kong, for $385 which the stationary tram car near No. 2
"So much has appeared in the Press, and through other chenols concerning the dispute between the Great Northern Telegraph Company
plaintiffs contended was the balance had their striking employees of a sum deposited by them with Amoy that the following statement,
the defendants as security on a representing the Company's point of view ris-à-vis the strike, will no
contract which had been cancelled and under which the deposit was doubt be of interest to the public.
returnable.
That the Telegraph operator: were well paid and otherwise well. treated by the Company before the strike will be evident to everyone when the subsequent facts as to the
Police Station, Wanchai.
Asked to plead, defendant, asked which way the tram car was going as there were two sets of rails.
Sub-Inspector James said both the tram-car and car were going Mr. C. A S. Russ, for the plain-Westerly direction at the
Praya East.
The defendant replied that the tiffs, stated that a contact was entered into on March 10th, 1925, by
stopping place for the tram cars which the plaintiffs were appointed going West was to the East or the Masters of the vessels in Shang- conditions, under which the open by the defendants as selling agents North side of No 2.Police Station.
in Hong Kong, Macho and South China for Macdonald cigarettes. In consideration of that contract, plaia tiffs deposited with the defendants $1,000 as security.
In addition to the hundreds of
hai refused to take their ships from detectives and secret service men of the Police and Military in Canone part of the harbour to another
tors serve the Company, are known,
Salary.
ton, the Kuomintang Headquarters on the instructions of the Company," Operators are, usually engaged in the Southern Capital is organiz- In this case the refusal to ches ing an honorary detectiva cops the "object of which is to gather in- formation for the arrest of poli- tical opponents and agencies found within its jurisdiction.
The General Headquarters of the Cantonese Army assures the public that there has been no bghting lately in the northern districts of Kwangtung and orders the Canton Police to take action if such news is spread At the same time the pro-Kuomintang Press are report- ing that "Red" are planning an uprising at Yingták, a "forthern district along the Canton-Hankow Railway, Kwangtung Section.
There is a fear, on the part of the unemployed workers connected with the 1925 anti-British strike in Canton that the
orders was regarded as tantamount to resignation from the Company's service and the men concerned were uotified to that effect. This led to all officers and engineers leaving the ships unattended both in Shang hai and Hong Kong and to a do mand that the Masters concerned should be re-instated before any further discussions relating to the strike took place. How exactly men on strike could be re-instated and allowed to continue on strike was never exactly explained;
Another issue was raised by the fact that the officers of a merchant ship are automatically under a con-
The contract provided that the selling agents should be supplied by the defendants with at least 50 cases of 10,000 cigarettes every month from three months after signature of the contract and that the deposit should be returned to the plaintiffs on the termination of
at the age of 17-19 years, and after 2-3 years as probationers, with pay per ranging between $7.20-842 moath, they are fully appointed in the Company's service on the follow. ing scale of pay. vi.:-First 3 years, $60 per month; after 3 years, 879 per month; after 5 years, 884 per month; after 9 years, 8102 per gonth; after 12 years 8100 per the contract. month; after 15 years, 138 per month after 18 years, 158 per month.
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Consignment Arrives But Is Not
Delivered in
He added that he did not under- stand how Sub-Inspector James could have seen him, if he was at
the door of the Police Station.
His Worship: I don't think that- matters. You mustn't päks✨ A stationary tram-car wherever it stops.
Mr. Smith: Supposing I did. I am not admitting that I did pass it, but how could he (Sub-Inspector James) have seen 1...
Sub-Inspector James went into the witoes box and was about to be sworn when the defendant said
As no cargo had arrived within he admitted passing the trum-car, but said he wished to stress the Gratuities are as a rule paid a month or so, the plaintiffs wrote fact that there were no passengers once every year, the maximum to the defendants and were told round the entrance or exit at the
After all he continned,
I the gratuity paid this year in Amoy that it would arrive at a later date. time, as they had all got cleas
Defendants entered into an under law is framed for the protection of being $118.
taking that if no cargo arrived be-the passengers and not for the tram- Major Willson fined defendant" fore July 1st the contract should car." deposit should be returned. On be regarded as cancelled and the May 7th a letter was written by the
"Leave of absence. One month granted fully appointed operators every second year without deduction
of salary.
"Sick pay: During absence from
Kuomintang tract to obey the lawful instruc-duty on account of illness no du. defendants to the plaintiffs stating
leaders will dismiss then gradually tions of the owners and a refusal without a bones and then appro- to do so involves penalties Several priate the 83,500,000 raised from officers, we learn asked to sign off, Canton merchants for their benefit and thus be free of their liabilities To guard against this the Canton under contracts. The Company, Branch of the Goldsmiths' Union, however, refused to accede to their many members of which are now requests, and has prepared to keep idle in Canton, met yesterday after the initiative in this matter in their noon and stated that they would be prepared to resist any unwarranted dismissal.
Shanghai sends a report to Can- ton that the 200 or more students whom the Kuomintang Party seat to Sun Yat Sen University at Mos.
own hands.
The issue of the so-called notices of dismissal is, in effect, ac an- ancement by the Company that they have grown tired of the deadlock and how hold themselves
duction of salary is made during the first 30 days in 12 consecutive months, whilst to fully appointed employees half salary is paid for a further poriod of 30 days. This rule is, however, not strictly adher- ed to by the Company in case of prolonged, born fide, illness, but is such cases fall pay, respectively half pay is granted for much longer periods than those mentioned above.
that
& consignment of cigarettes had arrived, but although the plain tills made repeated applications for it, none was forthcoming.
It was understood, said Mr. Russ, that in fact no cargo had actually arrived, but that a letter had been received from Europe stating that it was on its way
It was then mutually agreed be
** Working hours: Only 8 effec-sween the plaintifs and the defend- tive working hours, a day are de manded from operators, who besides ants, said Mr. Russ, that the agree- ment was cancelled. The defendants have one day a week of duty."
"Pension is granted to operators commenced repaying the deposit
are retiring on account of failing To give an health or old age. example one of the employees.re
$10.
COOLIES WHO DROVE A LORRY.
AAA 8700 SMASH.
The sequel to an accident causing 8700 damage to a F.W.D. lorry wa heard yesterday when a coolie, who bad attempted to drive the vehicle for a few minutes by the licensed driver, was charged with driving the lorry without a license, and without the permission of the P.W.D. A second Chinese was charged with aiding and abetting in both cases.
after it had been left moattended
When the second charge was read out, the first defendant asked,
cow to study Soviet political science entirely free to engage new men who after a certain number of years and the amount claimed for was the "Was it a two-wheeled lorry, or
-and-government are to return to
South China ás "Red" agents. These students were at first sup ported by Canton public funds which were then der "Red" direction. Since the "anti-Hed" campaign, funds to students abroad in Moscow have been cut out
THE ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT.
"REDS"
USING IT TO GET BACK TO POWER.
whenever and wherever they can fnd them. Such it borne out by
the cable from Shanghai which states, inter alia, that the Company is prepared to receive individual applications for return to work. The Shanghai telegram is as follows:
Bum outstanding..
The Defence. Mr. Russ added that he under- cently retired from the Company's" services receives a pension of $03stood that there were two defences. monthly.
Not satisfied with such good The first was that the whole of the terme the operators have struck $1,000 had been repaid and the work, thereby breaking their con- "second was that a cheque had been tinct by leaving the Company's
bad it four wheels." "The second defendant said he saw the first man had got himself into a dangerous
| position with the lorry, so he went
to render assistance.
His Worship: And the result of your help was that the lorry rad into a tree.
Giving evidence, the licensed driver, Cheung Fat, employed by
"in entire satisfaction of claim "-coolies to work at Stubbs Road this, it was claimed, constituting an and then continued to Repulse Bay
service without giving the stipalat accepted by the plaintiffs marked the P.W.D., said he drove some
state it has been decided to re: fulness and disloyalty by trying to estoppel of the defendants from with six or seven others.
SHANGHAI, July 19th Messrs. Butterfield and Swire sume the running of every ship as carly as possible, using a few con-striking officers with others who are being engaged. The other ships will be laid up. The Com pany has sent a letter to the strikers terminating their employ ment on the grounds of their re- fuaal of duty, adding that they are
cations work,
The Child officials stated they are open to receive reprezenta Hans from the Company, bata sine quo non is the reinstatement
ed notice (3 months), and they are now further proving their ungrate harin the Company and the internal and international telegraph service not only at Amoy but also at the Company's other stations in China by attempting to infleunce the Com- pany's staff there.
Telegraph Messangers, Telegraph messengers had their
liability for further payments.
Mr. W. B. Hind (for the defence) replied that he was relying on statement of fact that the whole of this sum had in fact been re- paid either in money or in the
On arriving at Repulse Bay be left the larry, for, About five mig, utes, and on returning saw the first defendant sitting in the driver's ent holding the wheel, with the second defendant tting beside him. The first man was driving."
Witness signalled to them to stop but they took no notice and the Mr. E. P. Fletcher, mechanical engineer of the P.W.D., said that when he arrived at the scene of the smash he found the lorry badly damaged, the front axle being badly bent, the steering gear crank cass sinished. The total broken, radiator, damaged, and the
Japanese goods in Canton go-to for return to win appli- pay raised by the Company last supply of goods by the defendants lorry ran against a tree.
dówas, Chinese or foreign, will not be permitted to leave their storage until the end of the anti-Japanese movement, according to a recent decision of the anti-Japanese Boy. cott Committee...
There is a suspicion in certain circles that some of the so-called petty leaders of the Red party
autumn. Seemingly not appreciate to the plaintiffs. ing this willingness on the part of
For the defend, it was stated the Company to better their con ditions, the messengers a couple that defendants dealt with a Mr. of months ago proffered ten, to $. W. Y. Funton, broker, who they mands, through their Association, understood to be an agent of the instead of submitting their wishes in plaiatilis. Defendants received 15
$700,
1.
The drst defendant was a coolie
of the three officers dismissed at certain extent unreasonable, de- the commencement of the strike, The officials of the Guild consider that if the deadlock continues for the proper way, e direct to the boxes of cigarettes,' valued at $35 damage, he said, was estimated at long many officers will leave the Company. As a matter of principle each box, and on the instructions of China const for good. Heuter. the Company refused to submit to
any pressure, from outside sources, Mr. Fanton they were shipped to A meeting of the Guilds was held with the result that the messengers Macao, and that was the reason have gained a certain measure of last evening to consider the posi- have also struck work, and they plaintifs did not receive them,
are now in co-operation with certain factions preventing the employment power in the present anti-Japanese tion. movement, and it is feared that the
of new messengers, thereby causing the Chinese public, great incon- venience.
pickets enforcing the boycott will HEALTH OF THE COLONY. the telegraphing public, especially
FOUR BRITISH CASES OF ENTERIC LAST WEEK.
zoon be entirely dominated by them. The pickets will be in charge of three inspectors, who are being paid $30 monthly each. For, the present, there will be two-com panics of pickets, each with a cap- tain receiving $20 monthly and three lieutenants, $18 each month ly. Each picket will be paid $15 a month: The pickets, however, will depend for their income largely The absence of small-poz cases is upon the seizure of contraband certainly a matter for congratula
ness roods-and they will re- ceive 10 to 30 per cent of the value of goods as realised by sales under
overnment auspices,
Last week four British and two Chinese cases of enteric lever, three of which ended fatally, were re- ported There was one fatality from scarlet fever
tion."
On Monday one case of diphtheria and one of cerebrospinal lever, both Chinese, were reported.
employed by the. P.W.D., but be had re authority to drive the lorry. The second man was not an em ployee and was not even entitled to be on the lorry
Defendants, paid $100, it was claimed, in full settlement of the When asked if they had anything claim, but plaintiffs argued that to any both the defendants blamed another payment-of-$70 was made each other, the first man alleging that the second man put the lorry As soon as this obstraction on after this which showed that this in motion, and the second man may- the part of the old messengers and could not have been the final paying he had nothing to do with it. their associates is ended either through steps taken by the Chinese ment..
Plaintiffs further contended that authorities or otherwise, new meg. sengers will be engaged by the they had had nothing to do with Company which is prepared to pay Mr. Funton, and that if the liberal monthly wages for an effec tive 8 hours working day, Free cigarettes were sent to Macao it uniforms will be supplied, hall was nothing to do with them, and month's pay extra at Chinese New that in any case they should have Year:be given and reasonable rules laid down in respect of leave of been notified by defendants that A Chinese, who was summoned the cigarettes had been despatched absence, sick pay, etc.
there.
The Company-feels certain that the publication of the above infor Ultimately, the case was adjourn mation will deprive the Chineseed for the evidence to be called as authorities and the public of all to the activities of Mr. Fanton and
the alleged agency. sympathy with the strikers."
On the first charge, the first de- fendant was fined $50 or four weeks, and on the second 825 or 14 days. The second defendant was fined 225 on each of the charges of aiding and abetting.
DANGEROUS' DRIVING.
for driving his motor cycle in a dangerous manner, was stated by Traffic Bergt Baker to have aver aged 25 to 30m.ph from Murray Barracks to Tai Wong Street. A fine of 820 was imposed,
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