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not imagined it possible that the foreign community could or would hold out so long five weeks exactly
In fact especially in the height of the hot weather.
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I have good reason to believe that many of the shameen employees would have offered much greater opposition to leaving their work they had not been assured that they would not have to remain out longer than two or three
days.
Hardly had they returned to work, than an agita- tion for a fresh atrike was started. This, I learn on good authority, was largely fomented by C.C. Tu'a own private news agency, the Chuch-wu She (
). The
"Canton Garette", which had led the way during the strike with pages of vituperation and misrepresentation daily, now had very little to say about the matter; but the vernacular press published continual incitaments to strike. Among other things it was asserted that a number of employees had been dismissed without reason. Mr. Ma Chiu-chun, who had been appointed by Dr. Sun, at our last interview with him, to settle the strike, was called in to discuss the question. It was arranged that he was to obtain a full list of all complaints and, after sifting tham thoroughly, to submit the remainder to us for joint consideration. This however was never carried out, the aim of those at the back of the agita-
tion being not a fair settlement of possible grievances,
but another strike.
The press agitation continue, two specific charges being 1) that the British Consul had personally