CHINESE STRIKERS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 18

CHINESE STRIKERS.

There has been a strike recently among the barbers of Shaohsing (China). The strike was precipitated by. the attempts of a master barber to prevent one of his workmen opening a "shop in the vicinity of his former master's. . The method adopted by the master to deter his employee from opening tho shop savors of the past. Ho hired a . baiid of. loafers to thrash the aspirant within an inch of his-life , .. They, did so." When"the victim recovered his inches, or rather feet, sufficiently to_go abroad once more,. his first proceeding was to summon a meeting" of assistant barbers. ' In. a ■ large tea shop in the city they met, and determined a plan of revenge. Formerly they had cut people, now they resolved to cut prices. Practically, says the . report .of the story, they shaved people for nothing. The upshot of it all was that the master barbers were compelled to come to terms with their men, and the assistant whose ambitions were for the moment thwarted, was compensated and allowed to open his shop in the place he had chosen.—"Barrier Truth." >