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Our fellowseamen at home simply find it an extreme difficulty to live on $7 to $15 a month. As a matter of fact, their present wages do not even permit them to drag out a bare existence, especially when food, clothing, and rent have gone up over 100 percent, particularly in the trading ports on the
China Coast.
In consequence, the Chinese Seamen's Union in Hong Kong and Canton demand that both the Chinese and British shipowners should accede to the following terms on a graduated
scale of wage8:-
That a 40 per cent increase should be given to all hands receiving less than $7 as wages per month; a 30 per cent ingrease to those receiving under #13 and a 20 per cent increase to those whose wages over $15 per month.
Instead of settling the affair with the Chinese
the British Beamon by arbitration and similar peaceful means, authorities have resorted to such force and repression as
The British official displayed in the Amritsar affair in India. still sling to the belief that scersion alonè can cower the
The Hong Kong Government has Chinese people into submission.
ensated drastie legistation and forbidden Chinese citizens leaving the Colony without permit.
Attempt has also been made
to prevent trains running to Canton from Hong Kong and inter- fere high-handedly with the freedom of movement of the Chinese
The Hong Kong passangers between Hong Kong and Canton. Government are so stubbornly determined to break the strike that it has raided the headquarters of the Chinese Seamen's Union and arrested the leaders. Simultaneously the British Shipping Companies in Hong Kong are importing strike breakers from Shanghai and other ports along the Yangtze River.
These arbitrary and unjustificable measures have aroused Chinese indignation not only in Hong Kong and Canton but throughout the entire country. The feeling of the Chinese people is running so high that servants and cooks of British
families