Chinese Treatment of Strikers.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 45, 18 August 1894, Page 4

Chinese Treatment of Strikers.

The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard says . — Iheyoun? Kmporor of China has just had experience of tbe inconvenierceo of strike?, an«l has initiated a dr.sstic mode of di^coura ing 1 that evil. Many thousands :>\ artisans, including builders, nvison? metalworkers, painter?, ami others. have been enframed i'or mot }h- pa-t in repairing the Imperial buildin. 1 in Pekin, in preparation tor th Empress Dowager's birth 'ny c-l> 1 rations. Lately, as the time for work grew shorter, these p»op ! < Caused much trouble by dei nndiriL higher pay, and refusing to w. r when their demands were not s:*t; fied. Accordingly, KuaiiJ- Hsu couple o! days ago prrnuilga'*an edict dwelling upon tho ir uhi caused by these strikes, and omu manding his soldiers at d polic ' arrest every workman employed n the Imperial cit\ who shows thslightest disposition to a^srrt th "rights of labour" in a maim likely to cause inconvenience or o retard the work. The edict proem* to say that all strikers are t > be s nnished without mercy, no leniency be shown, the more turbulent d s turbers to be tried for hijr'i ireasu. , tbe active leaders to suffer d«M h by strangulation, while all wh<i ; low them are to be banished to ! , fever and mosquito regions f<>r tliryears. It is reported fhar very lit r ■ enthusiasm is noticeable amongst th. Btrikera now.