SHANGHAI BUS AND TRAM STRIKE
SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED (Received September 29, 6.30 p.m.) HONG KONG, September 28. Shanghai’s bus and tram strike in the International Settlement was settled tonight after lasting a week and causing the worst transportation tie-up in the history of Shanghai. The services will be resumed today. It is not announced whether the bus and tram strike in the French concession has been settled. Nearly 1000 coolies at the Public Works Department settlement have returned to their jobs. It is estimated that 8000 are on strike. The daily loss to the companies is £83,000, and the total loss is over £330,000. Forty-one persons were arrested and 12 injured in the week’s disorders. Many settlement streets are littered with garbage from coolies’ carts.
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Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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124SHANGHAI BUS AND TRAM STRIKE Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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