CHINESE COTTON STRIKE.
NINE COMPANIES INVOLVED. RELATIVES' COMPENSATION. (Received 2 p.m.) PEKING, August 12. The Japanese Consul-General and the Chinese Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the mill owners and strikers, signed an agreement providing for the resumption of work in the Japanese cotton mills, involving nine companies, owning 40 factories and employing over 50.000 people. The Naigaiwata mill, at which the riots started, offered the relatives of the dead and wounded 10,000dol, which the Japanese Consul-General is retaining until the trouble is completely settled. " The majority of wharf coolies have struck again after one day resumption of •work.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 8
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103CHINESE COTTON STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 8
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