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SHANGHAI COLLEGE AND LABOUR.
WORKERS' DEMAND FOR HUGE INCREASE.
UNIONISTS' PREACHMENT.
There have been many rumours und a few letters in the press from various correspondents regarding dificulties at Shanghai College with the Labour Union. Friends of the Collegs are anxious to know the exact state of affairs.
MANILA TOBACCO'S DECLINE.
THURSDAY, JUNE
1927.
ALLEGATION AGAINST
OUR CROSSWORD
PUZZLE.
POLICE.
COMPETITION THREATENED FROM CHINA.
"THIRD DEGREE" METHODS CHARGE.
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APPEAL FOR IMPROVEMENT.
In a recent issue the Manila Daily Bulletin states:
A LONDON LIBEL SUIT.
Summonses were heard at Bow Street Police Court, London, in "The British-American Tobacco mall week, in connexion with an al- Company, one of the most success-leged defamatory libel published in ful corporations engaged in China the Sunday Worker concerning the Metropolitan Police and two officers business, threatens to give Philip of the Special Branch, New Scot The pine tobacco products new and land Yard. Defendants were WII- following statement la made by a keen competition in the United liam Roul, editor of the Sunday reliable authority who has an in-States. This company is in a posi-Worker und Workers' Publicators side knowledge of the situationtion to offer stiff competition be- (Ltd.).. says the N. C, Daily News.
Sir Travers Humphrey prose- cause it hus built up a strong The Labour Union was organize business. However, what it has cuted for the Director of Public during March and forcibly enrolled done in China could be done hore Prosecutions. The prosecution was in its membership all the janitors to a large degree. And this would in respect of matter which appeared gardeners, cooks, clerks, messeng be the most practical and the most-in two issues of the paper on Febr
the per-
5. Sir as well as
and March ers, etc.,
antisfactory minner of meeting uary 20 members Bonul servants of the
Travers read an extract from the competition. faculty of the
both foreign
Native Chinese tobacco poor. issue of February 20. He said it April Chinese. About and
It was very poor when foreign to-hud large headlines-"Third Degree bacco Interests, including the Bri- Methods to Extract Confession tisk-American Tobacco Company, from Class-War Pensioners: Filthy entered that field.
Strike Called.
Improvements.
Cell, No Bed."
"Third degree methods are being employed by Scotland Yard inen to extract a confession from Nathan "Dean is Dean, Class war pensioner in Pen-
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Point of the compass. Appellation.
1 they presented an ultimatum to the president of the College, con- taining 22 demands, requiring in- creases in wages of from 10 to 80
"The British-American Tobacco per cent, also food, lodging, and a substantial reduction in working Company some years ago startet hours, as well as large future in- experiments looking to the im- crease in wages, and many detail-provement of the tobacco. grown
Tiny particlo. ed demands concerning holidays there. These experiments includ-tonville Jail," it said.
a 'political' Doan. receives special
11 Medicine. and leaves of absence on occasions ed the introduction of new varie-serving a six months' sentence. As
treatment, and it means that during 12 Sooner than ordinary, of births, weddings, and funerals,ies, among them American leaf:
the month he has been in prison he 13 Midday. etc.. The total demands of the La-
16 Expiring. has been on bread and water diet. bour Union would require an addi-
With the co-operation and under His cell is in a filthy condition and 18 Related by blood. tional financial outlay for the in- stitution of nearly $10,000 per the supervision of scientifically has no mattress and he has to sleep 18 Strikes lightly. year; apart from the extra cost trained tobacco men the Chinese on the floor. He sends fraterna! 19 Interpret. to members of the faculty,
farmers learned to grow better greetings to the workers, both Bri 20 Convinces.
126 Trinl varieties, and received proportion- tish and Chinose, who are strug 23 Sordid wretch. ately better prices for their pro-gling for the overthrow of capital."
28 Employment. "Some Inaccuracies."
20. Baverage. The Faculty Council replied, ducts. Experimental, farms were
It seemed to have occurred to 30 Vessel in which to heat water. granting practically the increases conducted by the British-Amori- in wages asked for and mest of can Tobacco Company in the to- someone, went on Sir Travers, that 81 Fowl. the privileges. Because the reply Lacco producing sections of China. that statement was an abominable 3 Starting point in golf.
were the libel on the police. It might also 35 Being. was not wholly satisfactory; the The Chinese farmers
38 Small fish. Ac- workers not only called a strike ones who reaped the biggest bene-be that it was thought that serious 37 Interior,
99 Speelmena. but locked the power "house and 3, although at the same time consequences would ensue.
British-American Tobacco cordingly, in the issue of March 6, class ropins, refusing food, water, the
45 Notion. and light to both students and Company prospered through the there was a paragraph to the effect 42 Think so. formed that there were some inac-43 Stretched. faculty. The gales of the campus development of the tobacco busi-that the Sunday Worker was in- 18 Lazy. were locked so that none could ness.
Precisely the same thing can be curacies in the report of Februa. 62 Basential to rowing (Pluz), leave the grounds without a
It went on to say that the 53 Afterwards. special permit issued and stamped done Lure. The grade of tobacco by the Labour Union. From state-grown in the Philippines explains statements that while Dean was in 54 Void,
dict, that the cell was in a filthy 50 Lay again. ments that were made it was fear- most of the troubles the Philip Prison he was on a bread and water 55 Fine earth.
The ed that if the demands were not pine tobacco industry has.
condition, and that he was not "al-57 Inquiries. field is here for a far greater pro-lowed a mattress were not strictly. met life would be endangered.
1 Accustomed. a much
in accordance with the facts.
2" Cense. On this the Faculty Council duction of tobacco of agreed to all the demands under higher quality. If proper impetus dufess, and later appealed the case were given to the development of to the Board of Managers of the the country, if proper backing were given to scientific progress, College. This body which con- sists of 13 Chinese and 10 foreign there would be no occasion to fear members passed some vigorous re. the encroachment of the British solutions, urging the Labour American Tobacco Company on Union to come off its high horse, the territory of Philippine tobacco and requesting it to change cer-products in the United States." tain items in its demands on the College. This was communicated
to the Labour Union on May 13, the members of our union which on which occasion the Faculty totals over one hundred people. Council again promised Increases in wages of from 3 to 80 per cent., the majority of the labourers re ceiving increases of from 35 to 50 per cent, but modifying some of the other demands, and proposing rather "humbly these terms to be the final agreement between the College and the Labour Union.
To this letter the following reply has been received from the Labour Union:-
May 23, 1927.
Dear Sirs:-
We have received your letter and noted its contents. We called a mas meeting on the evening of May 19, to discuss about it.
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That, said Sir Travers, appeared to be a hulting method of saying that it was an absolute lie from beginning to end. But while the authorities who were responsible for this paper wefe content to with- draw their accusation against the prison authorities, as to the police 10 Belonging to me. officers who were said to have used their own methods to extract in- formation from Dean this was a repetition of the libel upon them.
him.
Reason for Arrest,
If the college will not talk the Sir Travers explained that Dean principles of humanity" and ignore arrived in Britain on January 7 the principles of public sentiment and with a passport which was not satis- living factory, and would probably have don't pay attention to the conditions of the labourers and cling been sent back and refused per- to the principles of Imperialism and exercise oppressive mensures toward mission to land but for the fact that our union, then we are not responsible the London police wanted to sec He was called up to London for the future carcer of this college;
where he made a statement to the but you meat bo
police as to the passport, and was charged at Bow Street on January for an offence against the Alien Order in arriving with an irregular passport. He pleaded guilty and was remanded until January 13, to Brixton. Two officers interviewed him in Brixton in consequence of a written application by Dean that he He was subsc- should see them. quently further charged with steal- ing a passport, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Therefore the statement of February 20, about his having been interviewed was absolutely moonshine.
You, in the name o the Board of Managers, are asking us to revise the agreement, yet in your letier you did not follow their actions. Thus you aro assuming that the Board of Managers is under the control of your body. Therefore, it is clear, you and not, the Board of Managers, want the revision.
You know the last strike was due We cannot agree to revise the agree to your compulsorily revising our ment because (1), the agreement has demands. Now you are practicing been signed only a month and revision should not take place no goor; (2) the same thing again and more of it, We don't know whether or not you because we want you to keep faith try to cause another, atrike or utilize with us and practice justice; (3) the labour union affair and suspend because the agreement was signed the college. after the Shanghal General Labour
the
On April 8, 1927, a letter wus If you are working for the future Union was reorganized; therefore, in intercata of Shanghai College, for written to the Commissioner of saying that we were influenced by the future carear of Christianity, for Police to the effect that when they the Reds is not right. You should be
love of mankind and for the printed the remarks with regard to enreful in what you say.
prestige of your country, (U.S.A.), third degres methods they thought We don't care to argue with you which often advocates the doctrine of their information came from a re- whether or not our demands are unhumanity, you ought to be very very liable source, and that as a result reasonable. You can send men to careful. investigate about the conditions elue- In conclusion we want to express to of inquiries they had found that
where and you will know it.
If the demands of our labour union should in any way affect the career of the college, it is because the college authorities have no respect, for Dr. Sun's "Farm and Labour Policy." Please have kind consideration for
you our more than 100 per enthusiasm for the college. Hope you will understand us:
cent. the paragraph was unjustified and were satisfied that it ought not to have appeared.
not
(Signed) Statt and Labour Union
and stamped with Union "chop" To President White and Members of the Faculty Council.
Defendant, who pleaded guilty and reserved his defence, was committed for trial. Bail was al- lowed.
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