SETTLING A STRIKE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4581, 2 July 1923, Page 3

SETTLING A STRIKE.

HOW CHINA DOES, IT. LEADER BEHEADED. Miss E. Gracie, who has just returned to Bathurst (N.S.W.) from the interior of China, tells of the terrible state of unrest in the Hankau district. Miss Gracie was in charge of an English school at the British concession at Hankau for five years. She says that the whole countryside is overrun with' bandits and troops. Discussing the industrial troubles of China, Miss Gracie told of the method in which a strike was settled on the Hankau-Pekin railway—on which Europeans are never safe owing to the bandits. The strikers met at-the Hupen station, just north of Hankau. They were asked if they intended to work, and, replying to the negative, received a volley of fire from troops sent down from Pekin by General Wu Pei Fu, who practically owns the railway, and was said to be losing about. 14.000 dollar,? a day while the line was idle. The troops then beheaded the eminent lawyer who drew up the demands of the strikers, and the strike was immediately settled. Miss Gracie was present at the terrible massacre by troops at Wushang, when about 60,000 troops poured into the town, sacked and pillaged it, and massacred many of the inhabitants.