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Dah No."2 Cotton Mill; 40 Yarig- taepoo Road," early on Saturday morning went on strike and a few hours later were joined by an equal umber of day employees. In all, more than 3.200 workers TO HELP AGAINST MUKDEN are striking Vigorous protesta"of Chinese During the past few days. It authorities and inclement wea-was learned; a rumour, unfound-
MASS MEETING ABANDONED.
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Three demands have been sub-
Peking, December 10.-The most Important military develop-
Hines.
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ther (reports the "Shanghai fed, has persisted at the mill that ments now are pending in Cen- Times" of December 6) combined wages were receiving a drastictral China centering upon Chang- to prevent the scheduled monster cut. Agitators are sild to have thow in Henan Province, the mass meeting at the Public Recirculated among
.mill function point of the Peking. creation Ground, near West Gateworkers, advising them to go on Hankow and the Lunghai railway During the afternoon a number immediate strike. of stragglers, obviously in favour of conducting the proposed meet. ing appeared at the Public Re creation Ground, but no attempt. to hold the meeting was made.
Behind the plan for the scheduled gigantic mass meeting is seen the hand of a numbe of Chinese political and labour or ghnisations, their motive being the promulgation of a general Latrike throughout Shanghai and the surrounding district, similar in scope to the proposed strike at
Hankow.
Strike agitators are also busy it is evident from various at tempts to hold small meetings in various sections of the city. Police vigilance has resulted in the dispersing of many of these (meetings. »'
A large number of Chi- nese constables and soldiefy also patrolled Nantao to sup press the proposed meeting. Roads leading to the Public Re- creation Ground, West Gate, were carefully guarded preventing any suspicious. characters getting through.
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mitted by the strikers. They are:
1. Protest against the curtail ment of mill apprentices.
2. Protests against the reduc on of night duty allowance from two cents to one cent.
3. Frotests against an assault on a certain worker.
Chang Hsuch-hang at the head! of 60,000 men, the flower of the Fengtien Army is soon to leave Peking for Chengchow in an effort to stem the new onslaught of the Cantonese who are rapidly pushing forward along the rail- Southerners are now more than way line from Sinyangchow, The
250 miles from the Hankow Was base
The Kung Dah' mill formerly owned by Ilbert and
Meantime... Marshal Chang Co., out a few years, ago was Chung-chang is concentrating at! taken over by the present owners. Hauchowfu, the eastern terminus has not affected of the Lunghat railway, and its
junction with 'the Tientsin
The strike
workers in the No. 1 mill of the company...
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The strike, while not regarded as serious, is being watched with interest.
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The menace of Feng Yu-hsiang alao begins to loom now as his forces are said to be concentrating: fat or eastward of Tunghwan and expect to join the Cantonese be- How many people who have at fore they ranch Chengchowfu. one time or another admired the With all the resources of the beautiful Willow Pattern design, Peking-Hankow's southern
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by Chinese actory and actresses. Ju whose armies have been re- More than 100 saiters were of merit and thas there is an as-cuperating near Chengchow for dispersed by police of the Yang-surance, that the story will be some weeks. Should this work. sepoo Station on Saturday after portrayed with exactitude and according to their hopes, the neor when they were found con- under conditions that could not Cantonese plan is said to be a ducting a meeting in a house at prevail elsewhere. than in the grand onalaught toward Peking 986 Baikal Road without permis- country. of the legend's origin. to the extent at least of throw- sion. A bundle of inflammable It has been produced under the ing the Fengtien troops out of handbills was seized by the police. aegis of the British-American Honan and of consolidating that The police also found a banner Tobacco Company, than whose province with their Southern bearing the name of the "Yang scenie pictures of the East there holdings. tzepoo Spinning and Weaving are none better. That speaks for Mills Labour Union. A number the photography. It was direct-
of strikers were questioned bated throughout by an experienced no arrests made.
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According to the police, strike agitators from the Baikal Rond address e rlier in the day at tempted to hold a meeting in the Wayside District but were dis- | persed by the police.
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