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THE UN
Meeting at Tung Wal Hospital,
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atch will be
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Senat
pay in
on the Hmigong Glub, Happy Valley, this afternoon at 6 peared Curlew, and the Rest of the Navy, speaks for itself. pam... between teamstól H. M. 9/1m; thể The proceeds of the match will be quote it as it stand devoted to the find in aid of the deal with the matter is in existence in Far Eastern countri widow of E. R. A. Chapman, Intent Home entitled The Mercantile ed to apare no exertion? of H. M. S. Curlew:
The promuters of the match Relief Fund with its Central stock till owing on shares subscribed
Marine Masters and Officers funded. Bearers will have hope that everybody interested in Committee at 28, St. Mary Axs kept fully informed about the negot rugby football will do their best to fandon." This fund deals with attend.
dases of bath deck and engineorent and financial Institutions whose ={ Difcers
invited. The general reporter, M. Jeanneney, summi "Througli no fault of "their own the Committee's majority was favourably inclined 2,000 Masters and Officers of the Government's plan. The Committee would insist Merchant Service are now out of em-legal proceedings being instituted in due course against ployment. All of them rendered to responsible for the Banque's undoing-Haras
· BILLIARDS ́CHAMPIONSHIP.
"FREE CHARGE" meeting had undoubtedly heard deference to the request of the Smith. Loo Wing-su and
FOR
DEVELOPING FILMS Prompt Beturn.
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A. TACK & CO.
26, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
METALS
therefore
returned to Canton.
suppression
SIAMESE LOAN.
Improvement of Labour Conditions.
¿London, Feb. 15.
THE AMOY DISPUTE.
At noon yesterday, the four.sea- Aego men's delegates (Chak Hon-ki, So
quests of the seamen, Shlu-ching, Luk Sheung-kat and Lo Chun-man) attended a meeting wrong in suppressing the Seamen's ernment, in their opinion, was at the hall of the Tung Wah Hos Ugion in Hongkong without pro- pital under the chairmanship of facing proof in support of the Mr. Lo Chung-kui There was harges made against the Union large attendance, including repre- why the Government closed the sentatives of many labour gulids. Union first and then declared it The purpose of the meeting was to be an unlawful, society the sea- to impress upon the strikers" demen could not understand, ** legates the impossibility of the
Government Impartial. Government acceding. to their de
Mr. Chap Iu-ting assured the mand for resuscitating the Sea- men's Union In Hongkong under seamen's delegates that the Gov- Its original name and requesting erament was perfectly impartial. them to persuade the strikers in The seamen apparently thought Canton to agree to slightly the Government had been “back- different name for the re-estab-ing" the shipowriers and this im Entries for the Billiards Cham-the country during the war services lished Union.
pression seemed to have been built pionship of the Colony close to mor- for which no gratitude could be too The Chairman briefly referred on the fact that the Hon. Mr. row. So for Mr RC. Witchell, great, yet many of them have been to the previous day's meeting in Halifax issued the notice an- the Hon. Secretary of the Victorin out of work for from one to two the General Chamber of Commerce nouncing that the shipowners had lecreation Club, has received years, their sayings aro exhausted in connection with the demand cancelled their offer. True, the entries from the following: Messrs, and their state is pitinble in the ex- relative to the re-opening of the notice was issued by the Secretary Ng Szo kwong, S. K. Kwok, Andrew trenie. They are typical members Seamen's Union.
The prospectus of the Siamese loan, as previously cabled, The seamen's for Chinese Affairs, but in doing The. Ho Shai Cheng, P. Wilson, of the class which has suffered most delegates who were present at that so Mr. Hallifax was acting in A. Leach, R. F. da Luz, W. Cand complained Jeust under the has been issued, accompanied by an intimation that £650,000
P. conditions following on, the war. [ready applied for, will be allotted fully. the views of the different speakers shipowners and as a middleman. Yvanovich. Messrs. Parkes, Gratis a class to which no doles came about the demand and the reasons The withdrawal of the offer by the and a few other curists have to mitigate the wretchedness of detailed for rejecting it le shipowners, said the speaker, was notified. their intention of compenury. Those who compose it are
hoped the delegates taken on the initiative of the shipping.
euger for work but there is work for SHANGHAI ROTARIANS. ] them, and the vast majority are would do their best to advise the owners themselves in consequence.
too self respecting, to appeal for seamen to adapt the suggestion of of what they considered to be the way out. One suggestion which clarity. Between merciless taxa-1 excessively firm attitude of the he would like to make to the sea-tion and lack of employment this giving the re-opened union
A Way Out:: different designation, when they seamen when they returned to men's delegates for their
their demands.
con- cins, the most valuable in the
According to a paragraph quot The shipowners aideration was that the scamen nation, is being erashed out of ex
Shanghai Rotarians, according to od by us from the • Shangha & clerk of the Hospital then declared in their notice that their should agree to a different name stemer. It is a tragedy of which the Shanghai Times, have taken a Journal of Commerce, the nego read a letter received from the fer did not represent a perms for their Union for a year. A very little is heard, but it is not definite step forward to show the tiations over the Amoy dispute Chamber of Commerce in Canton, nent increase, which would be de: the expiration of that period the the less poignant because it is sincerity of their motto, "Service are to be transferred to Shanghel escribing t. serious effects of cided by a Board of Arbitrators. Chinese community would do their endured in silence, The case of the Above Self.", Following addresses If true, this appears to be Ben- the strike on the trade of the They
nullified their oder ob best to restore the old name of 2,000 highly trained men, ennen on labour conditions in Chma from sible move. The story of the Chinese purt and urging the account of the refusal of the sea the Union on the seamen's behalfed to almost hopeless poverty prominent speakers, including Miss boycott of Messra. Butterfield necessity for an early settlement. men to submit to arbitration. Why Name Should not be Changed. With regard to the
He did not know if the sugges-despite all they have done and Agatha Farrison, who is conduet wire is a most unhappy example That many people did not fully of the Union, continued Mr. Chau on would be practicable, and he borne, ught to awaken the public inga sciolegient survey of Chinese of: wrong-headedness and an to a knowledge of the disastrous for the Y.W.C.A.. a committee hecessary misunderstanding, not realise the importance attached to lu-ting, he believed the Governinde it in order to have some
has been appointed to consider the | to speak of the injustice done to of all kinds, especially for ship the name of the Seamen's Unionment must have obtained proof to work upon. Mr. Chan Har process which is now going on
The Relief Fund lins already ex-question of their participation in Innocent people. It has been and the seamen's reason for their of intimidation and the invelgling endorsed the remarks of previous building and engineering works. att.tude was the statement made of other guilds to join the strike speakers on the impassibility of pended nearly £17,000 in assisting the improvement of labour-con- dragging on since last July, and. by reason of so long delay, it may Complete
terms by Mr. Chak Hon-ki. He said charges against the Seamen's the Government acceding to the over 1,000 individual enves. Of late Editions focally.
Miss Harrison nrzed the prove difficult to settle in loco, al that an alteration in the ten char-Union), although they did not pro-seamen's demand with regard to its funds have been on the point of
ringing out, and its effurts hove Rotarians to start immediately in though there really appears to be arters forming the name of the duce them. The speaker urged their Unton.
Petition to H. E. the Governor. bren sadly crippled for want of the big task of improving the hathing in it which a little calm the seamen's delegates to bury Cnion would necessarily mean a
imlar change in the
whatever past grievances they The representative of one of money. it administered entirely Inbour conditions locally, and commonsense might not dispose branch unions in various other night have against any party in the general labour associations tetive of membership of the said that the men ought to be of it quite easily.
different societies, and the cost of paid a sufficiently high wage to From what we can learn, the places. In order to maintain uni-consideration of the welfare of said that they had not discharged its administration is nil. It has allow them to keep their wives and explanation given hy oOTTER- the Chinese community in Hong- their duty as mediators in auch been suggested that officers of the families and not send their children pondent last Monday is quite designated like the Seamen's kong so that an early settlement manner as they should have done British Merchant Service coming to work at a very young age to incorrect, namely, that Messre They should discontinue indulg to Hongkong, and also their many crease the family income, Child Butterfield & Swire have been Not Closed But Temporarily
ing in platitudes and formal-friends resident in the colony labour, she declared emphatically, made the whipping-post for the ly submit to H. E. the Governor might like to assist the above ought to be abolished, and she Chinese grievance against, the the seamen were insisting on the It will be remembered that a petition, chopped by the Tung Fund. The following gentlemen painted a ghastly picture of the walls and gaten erected OTHERS take your photos,but retention of the Hongkong Union's during the meeting at the Tang Wab Hospital and other influen-have signified their willingneet 1 conditions under which these poor by the British Consul by our 30 years experience name. Beside the sudden adep-Wah-Hospital-on-Monday one of tial institutions and signed by retreive contributions, and subscripchildren worked What was want 11018 during one of the take yours in EXCELLENT tion of a different name in Hong the seamen's delegates in refer-prosentatives of the whole Chinese tion lists will be opened in their ed was prompt and speedy, action, periodic revolutions *** at each CONDITION and NATURAL king would result in a miscarriage ring to the closing of the Szeyap community, urging the acceptance respective offices.
nut mere words. Children were em- end of the Concession, this being COMPLEXION instead of mere of money and correspondence Sheung Kung Wul by the Govern of the seamen's demand.
The Secretary, The China Const played under unspeakably inhuman complicated by some further mis- ly clear and, sharp.
sent to the Colony by branch ment several years ago and its The suggestion was supported Officers Guild.
conditions and the care extended to understanding as to the propor Studio-lee House Street,
subsequent re-opening under the ty Mr. Chang Wal-mo, the rapre- The Secretary, The Institution them, and the interest taken in tion of Chinese and foreign righte At the request of the Chairman, same name suggested that the catative of another general lajol Engineers and Shipbuilders. their welfare was absolutely negligi-over the part of the foreshore Mr. R. H. Kotpwall gave an ac-Government should follow thi-bour association and a represen- The Secretary, The Marine En· ble. The position was very acute, which was filled in by Chinese count of what transpired at the precedent. Pointing
the tative of a labour guild.
[gineers Guild of China.
she said, and urged her hearers to soldiers in 187. Now had the meeting held in the General inaptness of the unalogy yester- The Chairman asked the meet- The Secretary, The Phoenix formulato some plan for improving Chinee of Amey come openly to
day Mr. Chau Tsun-nin said that ing if they approved of the sug-Club.
their conditions..
the British authorities and said A Vain Expectation.
the Szeyap Sheung Kung Wul, gestion, but there was no reply. The Chaplain, The
Prof C. F. Reiner, of St. John's "We do not like these gates and Mr. Kotewall said that the which was raided by the autheri Canton Chamber's Representatives. Institute.-Yours etc..
University, and they must have walls, they offend our people's general conviction of the speech-ties on information that some of
Mr. Ip Lan-chuen said formal
some definite information of the feelings" there appears little makers at that meeting was that its members were identified with representations to the Governor Hongkong. 15th Feb., 1922.
Inbour conditions in industry and doubt that they would have go hope of acceptance of the strikers' political movements in China, would be futile because the atti-
learn the different standaris, éxlst the walls removed at once. For nitial demand was a vain expec- was not closed like the Seamen's tude of the Government was the
ing before they could do anything. foreigners at Amoy live on the fe tation, because the granting or Union. It was ordered to be attitude of the Hon. Mr. Hallifax.
He suggested that mill-owners land of Kulangeù not in the Con- the demand would be tantamount "temporarily suspended," said Str. Ip Lin-chuen said that the
ught to cooperate and appoint a cession, to which, from the stand to rescinding the order declaring Mr. Chau. In view of the atti-Chinese General Chamber of Com-
committee that could examine the point of defence, the walls appear the Seamen's Union an unlawful tude of the Government towards merce received a letter at 6 p.m.
conditions, fairly and without to be a negligible quantity. As it selety, a thing which the authori-their demand for the re-opening)
prejudice, and then make a leport was, they waited until Messra, ties would never do. To permit of the Seamen's Union the seamen Tuxaday, advising that repre- Arrested on Eve of Flight of their recommendations towards Butterfield & &wire wanted to re- tetlented unsur by apt the re-establishment of the Union should yield in the interest of the Chamber of Commerce in Canton Shanghai Mint has, as already re-improvements then could be carried they have a perfect right to do sentatives had been sent by the A Chinese perountant at the improving the conditions. These build the bridge to their hult, as under its original name would Chinese, inhabitants whose pre- undermine the confidence of the sent hardships needed immediate to co-operate with the mediators ported by telegium from out out by the mill-owners themselves, and then vented their displeasure public and would certainly not in-alleviation. In this dispute be-in :ngkong to effect a settle-Shangbai correspondent, ben Other dresses were made, on the one perfectly innocent firm. crease respect for Governmental 'ween the seamen and the Government. The strike had gravious arrested by the Police, just as, lie same subject.
It is impossible not to contraat behests in future. He did
this, bebavlour with the brilliant not ment if neither of the disputants effects on the trade of Hongkong was about to leave Shanghai with! share Mr. Chak's fear that the yielded the sufferings of the and had caused the prices of daily $70,000, alleged to have obtained
displomacy at Washington for which Great Britain has received adoption of a different name for Chinese community would be as necessities to rise considerably. by cheques ou Chinese banks.
official thanks from Peking, and, Kurupto office and mereu in the the Hongkong Union would affect great as "a collection of people Chairman Called Away.
He was arrested by Inspector |
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He has a cral bort of an Eure Correct delivery of money remitted tied together in the middle of al At this juncture the Chairman Eek and Detective Sergeant Dong- to pam in the flis cse exami atjos, aud se queby branch unions to the Seamen's rope which was pulled at either announced that he was immediate las at the Cheking Industrial Be Cha dos Evans & Degen in Hongkong. Mr. Kote. end by two men with might and ly wanted by the Secretary for Bank, 44 Peking Rond, as Ire was great pity main Mr. Chau said he would Chinese Affairs. He would be about to cash his cheque, before Those who inted inning the Chinese lawal considered it a we are requested to write care of Houghs that the demand for the re-opening ke to allay the fear entertained back in. a short time. During his carefully prepared flight, TEREN Office &T dizel tu No. 9. Queenof the Union should have been y one of the seamen's delegates his absence the chair was The name of the accused is Lchị Sir James Craig, in a
such an obstacle to the discussion who spoke at Monday's meeting occupied by Mr. Ho Wah tong. Kwelming, aged 25, aerountant Year message, aayugat- of the remaining eight denunds hat if the Seamen's Union WAS Mr. Kotewall said that one thing to Mr. Tsa En-man, the manager dawn of a New Year, we shou of the seamen, especially in view not reinstated under the old name he had forgotten to mention was of the Shaughni Mint, dit-earch our hearts and of the fact that the restoration of then all its members passessing that he and Mr. A:0 Lang call-alleged that during Mr Tasselves What can I pers the removal of the daily-increas-membership would be liable to morning and asked him if the pinployer gonture on various myself and recommend normal trade in Hongkong and badge and papers relative to ed upon, Mr. Hallifax yesterday absence in Peking Leh obtain to bring about a happie
the cheque book nun foged hus affairs? What I pro ing hardships of the poor depend- arrest. The Government never English name of the Seamen's ed on an early settlement. He contemplated auch action, said Union had also to be changed, cheques so cleverly that ho after la to strain every bers hoped the seamen's delegates Mr. Chau Tsun-nin.
This was Mr. Hallifax said he had to con- he is alleged to have obtained is to be cheerful
wards passed them. The amount honourable and end would spare no affort to prevail shown by the fact that over one sult with H. E the Governor on stainntéri at, about $70,000, and is and, above upon the strikers to relax their thousand strikers were staying in the subject. Mr. Kötewall thought made up in chequer is fullow overcoming the
Hongkong with the knowledge of Mr. Lo Chung-kul was wanted by Cheking Todoetrial Bank Ts and dangers that lie Shipowners Blamed Again. the authorities and were enjoying Me Hallifax with regard to the 9,000 and $3,000 deka Mr. So Shiu-ching forecasted liberty.
English name of the Union, and the futility of any effort to recon- Mr. So Shiy-ching said no good possibly some other road news. cile the strikers if the change of purpose would be served by fur- He suggested that the meeting ad- name was insisted upon. Nothing thor fruitless discussion. He and turn until Mr. Lo Chung-ku) short of acceptance of their de- the other delegates were not in returned mand would be a sufficient induce-clined to see Mr. Hallifax again ment for them to return to work bocause he was sure Mr. Hallifax the meeting adjourned: kinng Bonk managers
Mr Ip Lan-chuen seconded and*The prompt, notion of the Cho- If the strikers had any intention would have nothing to say except
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their Union in Hongkong after it accept a different name for the received a mesange
had been re-opened they would Union. They intended to return that the Secretary Yor Chinese ente have signified their approval when to Canton and to report the result Affairs
it was first suggested by the Secre-of the mission to their fellows.
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