STRIKERS IN CHINA.
COLLAPSE AT SHANGHAI. PEIPING TROUBLE CONTINUES. Australian and N.Z. P:ess Association. (Received October 7. 5.48 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 6. The postal strike in Shanghai has been broken by volunteer workers, principally foreign Boy Scouts. They undertook sorting and delivery work and maintained the essential services. As a result the strikers succumbed and returned to work. At Peiping (formerly Peking), the striko continues. The strikers are demanding complete Chinese control and the discharge of all foreign employees, also the adoption of Chinese as (be official language, excepting in matters relating to the International Postal Union. No statement about the demands lias been issued by the authorities. It is reported that the Kuomintang has advised the men to return to work and has promised to secure favourable consideration of their demands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 9
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