THE SHANGHAI STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 7

THE SHANGHAI STRIKE.

MORE ME,N OUT. BUSMEN INTIMIDATED. SHANGHAI, February 20, There was some development in the strike situation to-day, but owing to its being a Sunday the exact extent cannot be determined. It is estimated that between 80,000 and 100,000 workers are idle. Intimidation is playing a great part in the strike. The crews of the International Settlement buses have finally been forced out sq that public transportation is confined tv rickshaws and motor cars for public hire. House servants have not yet been affected. The cotton mill strikers include the employees of a number of Chinese-owned concerns. The Chinese crews of a number of British and Chinese coasting vessels have also LABOUBf UNION’S AIMS. The General Labour Union has issued a statement declaring the aims of anti-imperialistic propaganda; the elimination of militarists; the formation of a People’s Government; freedom of speech and the Press; an eight-hour day; increase in wages; recognition of unions; better treatment of labourers; similar wages for male and female workers. However, the Chinese newspapers state that the real object of the strike is to welcome the Nationalist armies in Shanghai. Hitherto, there have been no disturbances beyond minor ones. No definite anti-foreign tendencies have yet been shown. THE CHINESE WAY. While strike agitators in the International Settlement and the French Concession are given practically a free hand, this is not the case in the Chinese city, wher Sun Chuan.-fang and his Commissioner of Defences, General Li Pao-Chang, have issued a proclamation declaring that any persons found inciting people to strike or interfering with workers will be summarily executed. Three persons have already been decapitated in the Chinese city on a charge of being agitators, but the number actually executed is reported to bo at least twenty. The three mentioned were beheaded in the street, and their heads hung on posts as a warning.— (A. and N.Z.) DEFENDERS OF WUCHA,NG. HANKOW, February *O. The People’s Tribunal, consisting of thirteen representatives of labourers, students, and Farmers’ Unions, Chambers of Commerce, political and official bureaux, with a woman representative of the Kuomintang, under the presidency of the Nationalist Minister of Justice, tried Wu Pei-fu’s generals, Chen Chi-amu, and Liu Yu J Chin, who defended Wuchang and were captured when the Nationalists entered in October. Both denied receiving assistance from British gunboats, Chen Chi-amu was fined 1,500,000 dollars and Liu Yu-Chin was sentenced to death.—(A. and N.Z.)