INDIAN AFFAIRS
STRIKE OF OIL WORKERS NON-CO-OPERATORS AND THE UNIVERSITIES (I5 Y Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) "l>ELi-11, March 17. Burmese oil workers at Rangoon struck on loth, demanding increased wages. The trouble is now spreading, and 7000 are rendered idle. . ' Disorder is feared and 250 police have been' despatched to protect the plant. . ~ At the first day's examinations at Benares University uon-cooperators lav on the hall steps to prevent the entrv of professors and students.. The latter jumped over them or entered through windows. On the second day iron-cooperators squatted closely before the entrance. One student failed to cuter. On the third day men squatted at the front entrances on "rass mats, selling beads, and invokfri'rr Providence to make the examinees unsuccessful. Beads were spread on steps to frighten tlie religious, All entered amid tho loud curse* of the obstructionists. Students fear the same tactics at the forthcoming Allahabad University examination.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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153INDIAN AFFAIRS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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