EVENTS IN CHINA
SPLIT IN UNION CIRCLES WATERFRONT TROUBLE IMPROVING. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, August 18. (Received Augijst IS), at 11.50 a.m.) A secret meeting of a number of unions affiliated with tbo General Union of Labor, Education, and Commerce adopted a resolution seceding from the last-named union. This action is clue to alleged defalcations in the strike funds, for which the General Union officials are blamed. The situation on the waterfront _is improving gradually. The wharf coolies have mostly, resumed. An official communication from Peking authorised the local Post Office officials to offer the strikers an inOErcasc in wages, but the strikers rejected the oner. The Government has forwarded to the Powers an invitation to attend a special Tariff Conference at Peking in accordance with the Washington NinoPower Treaty.—Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 6
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131EVENTS IN CHINA Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 6
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