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In the land of beglanlog agalu-song Bran:Plé Revue-Selection

As you were--Selection:

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YOKOHAMA HARBOURSTRIKE BIGGER OUST OF LIVING IN

SHIP COOLIES QUIT WORK..

The Yokohama ship couliss went strike recently adding new diffienities to the already dismaying 'problems facing shipping men at that port. The stove-

dores handling cargo ashore were still at

work, but not a bit of cargo was taken from many of the vessels in the barbour If the shore stevedores also strike condi tions at Yokohama will be extremely serious, says the Japan Advertiser.

Little definite information regarding the cause of the strike can be learned along the waterfront. The trouble is believe to be between the Japanese stevedore fore men and their may it being reported that the foremen have been gouging the pay of the cooli and the workers have decided to call a halt

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Fifteen demands are said, to have been presented by the coolie to their employer the main points being as followi':--

Increase of 40 per cent in wages, with 30 per cent. extra pay for work in storm weather; the payment of at least Y.200 the heirs of any man killed during work ing hours; the payment of all costs, con nected with the illness of a labourer by "the employers; axeries of bonuses for long, continuous service.

Toward the end of March the Japanese foremen notified the landing companies that "the stevedores would require more pay after 1st April. This was granted and it was supposed that he tmen were satis fed, but shortly afterwards the foremen sent word that it would probably be diff cult to secure men on the following day as the men were to hold a meeing.

THE EAST...” APERING COMMENT.

The Peking Daily News, discussing this question.saya

In the case of Europe and America it is not difficult to judge rongly the exact increase in the cost of living in the case. of the Orient it is almost impossible. Neither in Japan nor in China, have statistical methods been applied" to funda."

mental problems. Japan, in her excellent H 'inancial and Economic annuch, each year gives a few tables of some assistance in understanding economic changes as they affect the livelihood of the people; but they do not carry one far. In China, still less is done, more's the pity. It is, there fore, almost impossible to ascertain actual advance in the cost of living. That of the workmen guilds in Shanghai have abəla advancing is quite certain. Many

action of employers that what was a been able to prove to the complete satis- living wage ten years ago is nothing or the kind now. And ten years ago the cost merely of food had advanced on that of 1900 by 44 Ber cent, as a table of lood prices published in Municipal report showed.

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it is certain that, though this. part of the world may havàs been leas affected than any other by the war as for sa prices are concerned the increase during the part ten years, whether for foreigners or for Chinese, has been with-- out precedent. Those who have systemati cally kept accounts of their family er penditure, or have wisely kept their re ceipted bills for househoid expenses, are able to testify to the extent of the The following morning no men showed increase; but a thorougby scientific survey up for work and no freight was discharged accessary before final and reliable during the day. A big meeting was held importance of the matter it is surprising results are attained. Considering the, by the ateradores during the morning but that nobody has yet constructed an index no particulars have leaked out concerning number of prices in China

Such an the purpose or the results. However, the index number, correlated with exchange landing companies were told that the men variations, would be a delightful thing to would turn out for work. It is believed, work out; but it is perhaps us well that however, that before the trouble is over it is not done, for otherwise there would there will be new demands for more pay-be still more complaint of the increased There is no doubt that the ship steve cost of living. There are increases that dores are unavoidably working under hard are largely invisible; and that the eye. conditions. They are paid well, but the does not see the heart does not grieve congestion" ashore makes it impossible to after, so let them remain invisible secure lighters for discharging. They are frequently sent home before noon for this reason and often are laid off for a day or more at a time waiting for lighters, so that in spite of the apparently big wage, their pay is small at the end of the week.

Japan had 3,609 steamers, totalling The congestion meanwhile is becoming :3,043,165 tons gress, at the end of January ware and freight is being moved very 1920, according to the latest statistics of alowly from the wharves. On the month Department of Communications. Of ing of the strike there were freighters, these steamers, 0,976, with 8,877,881 tons all with big cargoes, waiting outside the breakwater and net a ton of freight was taken from the seals in the harbour dur ing the wholedzy,

A prominent shipping man said that it would take two month of shed work to clear up the accumulated freight in Yokohama if not another ship called at the part in the meantime.,

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Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Duff addressing the annual meeting of Shang

JAPANESE MERCHANT FLEET

N.Y.K. THE LEADING COMPANY

gross, were registared in Japan proper 58, with 40,720 tons gross, in Korea; with 7,537 tons gross, in Formosa, and es, with 121,711 tone gross in Kwangtung.

The same statistics show that, at the that mentioned there were 98 owners of nos less than 10,000 tons gross each, 35 in Japab proper and 3 in Kwangtung. The largest owner is the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, with 97 ships, totalling 457,494 tons grüss, followed by the Oka Shosen Kaisha, with 78, with 308,650 tons gross Next comes the Kokusai Kisen Kaisha, the new shipping company which was estab- lished last year by merging the partial Finterests of a number of shipping com panics Its feet consisted of 31 steamers, totalling 165,8 tons gro

It will be seen that there is a consider

hai Branch of the Navy League last week,able difference between the second largest

on the invitation of the chairman, said the subject of the Union Jack Club was

and the third largest No less marked is the difference between the third largest and the fourth largest, the Toyo Kisen

of vast interest to himself and of vast | Kaisha, which owned, at the date of the

statistics, 11 ships, totalling 96.118 tons the Kawasaki Deckyard Company, with gross. The fourth company is followed by

15 ships, totalling 80,629 tons gross,

importance to their meu. The British sailor of today was a very different man from the British sailor of 30 years ago, and unfortunately his accommodation ch

The other five concerns are in the board ship had not improved in the Kaisha, 11 bips, totalling 64,479 tous following order. The Kawasaki Kisen. ratio as his education had improved. The result was that they could not do enough gros; the Mitsui Bussen Kaisha, 19 ships, for them on board ship, and it was a very 57,356 ions gros; the Katsuda Kiten great thing to get the men ashore. Sir Kaisha, 11 ships, 48,446 tons gross; the Alexander went on to spark of the special Yamashita Kisen Kaisha, 47,533 tons bencht of having good clubs for the men, gross; and the Tatsuma, Kisen Kaisha, 11 and observed in passing that it was in ships, 47,287 tons groß,-Japan Adver-, portant they should have's share in the | tiser, management. The sailor was rather aby of charity: any suggestion of it was likely to get his back up. The Club in

Shanghai was a model, and a monument THE INDIANFRONTIER GUARD

to the generosity of the Shanghai public.

Its organization was good, and sympa thetic. The management understood that

ment.

LONDON PRESS COMMENT...

the sailor was an ordinary man and not The Times... in a lender on General a saint, and gave him good liquor, good Mouro's despatch says: It does ample food and good entertainment.

justice to the fortitude and courage of the Speaking on the question of up-river British Indian troops in a Frontier cam Clubs, Bir Alexander suggested the estabpaign of a magnitude without precedent hshment of Union Jack Clubs at Hankow in Indian annals. If we hitherto have ichang, and Changana, and he added that heard more of the defects than the achieve he would like to see the whole organized mente it is because the amount of reticence from a central or hand office in Shangnai, observed during the operations was far He mentioned that Singapore had genmore absurd than was ever known on the erously provided a site for a Uith near Western front even in the early days of the Luffles Hotel, and the sum of $75,000 the war. In time the War Office learned had been appropriated for its establish the virtues of discreet publicity during Hongkong was a blot on the pic the war but Simla has never done so and ture, and was very unsatimactory at pre never will The Times commends the sent, but he hoped to see an improvement as we can hold great areas of the Middle statistics of personnel to those who think before long.

The Chairman then proposed a special East with small forces. Although we were vote to thanks to the Shanghai Race Caut nominally fighting on a front of a thon for its kindness in undertaking to eng sand miles heavy work was done in a for port the club for another year. They valleys within a comparatively limited could not, he said, speak too highly of its potamis, Asia Minor and Persia alike.

area. The moral is applicable to Meso- kindness in the matter. The Commandat in-Chief would agree that it had beon General Monro's remark that his task was The Daily Telegraph, after quoting great help to the Navy.

MAP.Wood seconded, and the vote one in which administrative, organisation was cordially agreed to be played a leading part, states that his Mr. Brooks Bmith observed that in organisation was admirably efficient. evont of te hace Club inding it Nothing which foresight and ingenuity unable to carry on the Union Jack Club could do for the health and comfort of as at present, he thought they would find of the campaign was as sound as its the troops wha forgotten, and the strategy that british merchants in Shanghai would administrativo work The story of the respond to an appeal to carry on. The campaign has its military importance Tenang club. subscription was raised in three days Mr. Johnstone took the lesson. Whatever system of administra More important still is the political matter in hand and had no difficulty in tion we establish in India, the safety of raising a very considerable sum-(Ap-Indian life and property depends am plause)mediately upon the Frontier guard.

The Vice-Admiral thanked Mr. Brooke Government which tolerates internal dis Smith for this assurance. Upon hearing brder or weakens the militery power of it, he felt be had done rather a good day's India, invites and will obtain the horrors

of an invasion of savagery!

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