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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 9th, 1927.

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$200,000 LOSS ON YEAR'S WORKING RECORDED.

DUE TO CONTINUED TRADE DEPRESSION. '

At the third ordinary annual meet ing of shareholders of the Hong Kong and Territorial Estates,

Limited, Bold at the office of the

SHANGHAI MILL-OWNERS

AND EMPLOYEES.

TRUTH ABOUT LOOK-OUT

-POSITION.

AGITATORS MAKING EVER NEW UNIONS.

HONG KONG WESLEYAN ME HODISTS.

RALLY ARRANGED FÖR APRIL 2013.

HISTORY AND DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH.

What is Methodism Many whose sole acquaintance with it is confined to some little village chapel may be pardoned for thinking of it a one of the many little sects which abound in Chris- tendom, and class it with those fanoy religions' whose teuets and adheredila they regard as cranky.

[BY RAV, J.°C. KNIGHT ANSTEY.]. Is the course of the interview

A proposal is on foot to hold given hy General Chiang Kui Shek a great rally of Hong Kong on Wednesday Poch TOTAL LOSS NOW OVER a week, the General said Methodists

$600,000.

understand that several British Church at Wanchai. Details of the April in the Wesleyan Methodist

operated mills have been willing to rally are advertised in this issue. work, but the Settlement authorilo view of this it will be of interest ties have not seen fit to allow their to give a brief outline of the

Methodist Movement return. I believe that such a thing ay this will aggravate any possible trouble between them and the for- eigners. This information comes to me through the Labour Union."

Inquiries show that the Labour Union, in accordance with their asual policy, bave presented to the general an entirely distorted view of the mill bour situation. The Settlement authorities have not ap proched British mill-owners in regard to the cessation of work and the consequent closing-down of the Mr. R. G. Shewan (Chairman) mills, nor have they taken any part presided, and there were sisa pre-in the Settlemens of the disputes sent: Meara T. G. Weall, E. M. Raymond and J. Scott Harston (members of the Consulting Com- mittee), Mr. A. Braun (Secretary), and Messrs. A. A. Botelho, H. Dreyer, A. Keith, A L. Shields and J. Toppin (shareholders).

Company, St. George's Building, yesterday afternoon, it was stated that there WAN B

Jess of ever $200,000 on the working of 1926. This was a little above, the loss of the previous year and the total losa to December 31st, 1926, amounts to over $600,000. The continued de ficit is mainly due to the depression in the trade of the Colony, which showed no improvement during the year under review.

Methodism may be described as a great of Protestant Evange

group

lical Churches which form a worlds

wide brotherhood numbering thirty- five million adherents, chiefly in the and Americs, British Empire having aliated Churches Missionary Organisations in every country on the globe.

All

and

the

owe their origin. to great Evangelical Revival in the sighteenth century, in which the between mill-owners and workers.name of John Wesley stands pre- eminent as that of the Founder of The precise situation in as follows:

Methodism.'

Preposters Demands

Wesley was a High Churchman, a

NOW ON SALE.

1927 Edition

OF THE

DIRECTORY

AND

CHRONICLE

On March 10th ill workers in the clergyman of the Linerin lege; The Sixty-fifth Annual Issue

Fallow af Lincoln

Oxford, and Greek Lecturer and President of Disputations in that University. His conversion i 1738 which led him to regard the life of an adult Christian as begin. ning with an inward experience of God "and not, st baptism or con. Ärmation, was a transforming ex- perience leading by logical steps to virtual separation from the Eng-

Alethodism has combined the

religion by emphasising the neces

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wearing department of the Oriental Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ltd., left work without any notice Chairman's Speech.

to the management. On March 11th Addressing the meeting, the all workers in the spinning depart CHAIRMAN said: The unusual de- ment of the same mill struck as pression in the trade of the Colony well. The total number of ea to which I referred shout this time ployees is about 3,500. No de last year continued without immands were presented to the man-ish State Church. provement daring the whole year, agement but a list of demands ap-mystical and practical elements of and the loss on working for the peared in the Chinese Press. twelve months is muck about the The demands were of such a same namely $317,319, as against ridiculous and impossible nature $100,800.49, the difference being that the mill company notified roughly accounted for by Deprecia- workers by posters at the mills, tion on Buildings which was

that unless they returned to work allowed for in the previous year's terms as those prevailing before the unconditionally, and on the same accounts. This brings the total strike, the mill would be closed loss to December 31st, 1950, to

doka indefinitely.. $602,302.19.

noti

I said last year there was a slightly better enquiry for Chinese fals at the close and this improve- ment small and slow as it was con- tiaued so that on December 31st the number of vacant fata had fallen to 68, and to-day is only nine, but the present rents, of course, give a poor return on the money invested..

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sity of a personal experience of God nudang ita logical expression in the right conduct of all human re- lations, personal aad

social. Wesley himself was a mystic yet an extraordinarily practical man and a true pioneer in many forms of ion. The methodist Churches of Social Service and Popular Educa to-day are second to none in leader- furio, yet so based upon genuine ship in Temperance and Social Ke- Christian experience as to avoid anti-social doctrines.

Wide Appeal.

On March 11th some 2,200 opera tives of the Kung Yik Cotton Mill went on strike. Un March 16th and 17th shout 3,000 workers employed at Evo's Yangtzepoe Mill Jeft. work, and on March 21st some 6,000 English Wesleyan Methodism, in- employees of the Evo Mill left cludes men so widely separated in without making pity demands. In politics an. Szr George Hayter accordance with the usual practice, Chubb (now Lord Hayter), the Rt. impossible demands were presented Hon Walter Runciman, and the St. George's Building has through the medium of the Chinese Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, and done well and gives a good return, Pres. All these British-owner representatives of Capital such as but the Yaumati property has been ill are now closed, but owners Sir Josiah Stamp, C.B.E., D.Sc. disastrous. There was practically are quito prepared to open up their it exalta the value of Christian ne demand for storage on this at mills as soon as they are con-living above theological orthodoxy throughout the whole year. There vinced that the workers' desire to and is unafraid of the results

return to work

They of modern scientific research and are Dot, however, prepared to critical enquiry. accede to the ridiculous demands made by paid agitators and ex tremists attached to the General Labour Union. Workers must re

for

sincere.

is a faint caquiry, now, but storage on this Yaumati-site will never pay ts. It can only be made remunera tive by building and developing, and chig We must have further capital.

Our Profit and Loss Account is set forth in such detail that it isferas prevailing before the strikes practically a working account, and and must convince owners that there is no item that requires their return will be permanent; special cornment.

of the

Directory & Chronicle

for

HONGKONG, the Treaty Ports of

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO,

THE PHILIPPINES, ETC-

This Large Volume of approximately 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of Nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS.

Arranged, with the initials as well as Surnames, in strict alphabetical order so that any name can be found instantaneously.

It is a volume indispensable to business houses.

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turn to work at all mills on the 96,563 Lay Frenchers, nearly twelve Large Edition-with Maps and Treaties. . $12

1 the various branches of Methodism throughout the world there are, sccording to last year's official statistics, 60,444 Ministers,

million Church Members, while, as we have said the Adherents number at least 35,000,000. Some would pat the figure at forty million.

In Hong Kong.

The Agitators' Tactics. With regard to the balance sheet, you will observe that 22,550 shares

Hill-owners' previous experiences have been forfeited, reducing the have taught them that agitators In Hong Kong, Methodism is

by. the Issued Capital to $774,500, and that have forced workers to return to Methodist Church at Wanchai,

having obtained certain concessions, presented

Wesleyan calls in arrear amount to $128,500 work at one mill and have used which is shertly celebrating its an reducing the capital still further to $613,000. On the other hand, fresh such return as a lever to force raversary, and in connection with capital amounting to $700,000, as

owners to accede to similar demands which a Rally of all Methodists in the Colony is planned. The presented in respect of other milla. per Resolutions passed on January 21st and December 15th, 1828, was of Chinese workers normally em-presented by the

On Thursday morning a number Social Service of Methodism is re- Sailors' and issued, raising the whole issued capital to 81,348,000.

Small Edition

$8

Orders should be Sent

to

Soldiers. Home in Arsenal Street, HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, Ltd., 18, Chater Road which will in a few months, time be replaced by a ne new, building

ployed in the mill operated by the The 22,350 forfeited shares yield. Oriental Cotton Spinning & Weay ed $20,476.08 which has been crediting Co., Ltd., congregated outside ed to forfeited shares account.

of the mill and threw stones, break-equipped with almost everything ing several panes of glass. The which experience has suggested as rioters were dispersed by an Ameri- being both helpful to and worthy can military patrol.

of the splendid men of HM Ser vices whose interests it is intended to serve.

R.

Sundry creditors which stood at $814,804.61 on December 31st, 1925, have been reduced to 80,478.28, and loans on mortgages increased to

There is a lock-out in force at two Japanese milk This situation $3,554,000 by the creation of mortgage on the Kennedy Town pro-has obtained for several weeks and perty of B076,500. Of the 8678,300, was brought about by workers' 830,000 was repaid on December threats of incendiariam In some 31st, 1998, reducing the loan to casa valuable machinery was ex- 8816,500 as shown in the balance tensively damaged. sheet.

It is no wonder therefore that

Ever New Demands,

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***** April 8th, 1927. Telegraphic Transfer. 13/08 Bank Bilis, on demand/07/16) Back Billi, st30'days' right Bank Bills, at 4 months"

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In addition to ordinary repairsware require murances of the and roaowale 835,885.67 were ex-incere desire of operatives to re-OY pended on "St. George's Band turn to work personnently.. ing in structural alterations to the ground floor and on lavatory fastal. " lations throughout the whole build-

This expenditure was neces Union are frantically establishing sary and has considerably improved new branches of the Union which the value of the property. The amount of 350,040.48 is the Anal coolies and units composed of a Or Basis

wheel-barrow payment for the construction of the

ing

37 Louses. at Kennedy Town

Paid agitators and, extremists attached to the General Labour

comprise hawkers

similar class of workers.

It is

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I now propose that the report and estimated that at the rate agitators

rs Or New accounts to December 31st, 1926, beare now rolling new members, adopted; and that the balance at upwards of half a million labour

will debit of Pront and Loss Account of demands of the General Labour ers be subject to the strike BBD7,392:10 be carried to new Union in the court of the next few

nocount

Mr. WEALL seconded, and the re- "port and accounts were adopted.

* Other Business, Oa. the

of Mr. proposition BOTELHO, seconded by Mr. DaEYER, Messra. T. G. Weal, E. M. Raymond and J. Scott Harston were re-elect ed members of the Consulting Com mittee.

On the proposition of Mr. KEITH, seconded by M. TOPPIN, Messrs. Lowe Bingham & Matthews, and Bears Percy Smith, Seth & Flero ing were re-elected as Auditors, at a rehuncration of 500 each

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Ox Yesterday, some 120 employees of the China Amalgamated Nail and Ware Products Co., (a German con- cera) resumed work

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Work ceased at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 135, North Szechuan Road, on Thursday, when employees of this organization demanded ment of wages for the four days they were on strike last month.

The atmosphere at the Japanese owned mills is terse and the Japan ese Mill Owners Association held a meeting yesterday afternoon.- North Ulins Daily Newa.

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