CHINESE POSTAL STRIKE
WORK RESUMED AT SHANGHAI. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copy-lght. Shanghai, Oct. 6. The local postal strike has been broken by volunteers, principally foreign Boy Scouts, undertaking sorting and delivery and maintaining essential services. The strikers have returned to work. At Pekin the strike continues, the strikers demanding complete Chinese control and the discharge of all foreign employees, also the adoption of Chinese as the official* language, excepting in matters relating to the International Postal Union. No statement regarding the demands has been issued by the authorities. It is reported that the Koumintang (the Nationalist organisation) has advised a return to work, promising to secure favourable consideration of the demands.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1928, Page 9
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