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(though he could not use it for the purpose of -
·prosecution) the cargo-boat- guild had on the previous night paid $400 to another guild of labourers to induce them to join in the strike, and whether from that or some other
large number of
cause a
the dock-labourers had _
struck, while no
were
13.
suany
others
threatening to do so.
Under these circumstances,
I. at once, summoned
ت
a
meeting of the Excentive Connell, at the same time, requesting Sir Nowell Salmon, the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, to be present,
with
a view to induce him
might
to afford such aid as
prove
desirable
on
the part
of Her Majesty's Ships. exfter full discussion of the position of affairs, el bajor- General Cameron being present in his place, I.
determined