A POSTAL STRIKE
MORE TROUBLE AT SHANGHAI*
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) (RENTER'S TELEQRAM.) . ..
(Received 18th August, 10 a.m.)
PEKIN, 17th Augußt.
Nearly 2000 postal employees havt struck for various reasons, including the rates of pay. Some of them attacked * detective with stools and chairs, and ha fired $ revolver and wounded a. coolie. The Post Office is at present guarded by marines from the warship Concord. At a meeting of. the Shanghai Gen-, eral Labour Union the chairman stated that the agreement reached recently, would not satisfy the labourers. It was decided .that the operatives would not resume work unless one-third of the strike pay was granted and wagea were increased by 10 per cent..
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 5
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114A POSTAL STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 5
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