STRIKE SETTLED
IN SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT RESUMPTION OF SERVICES. AFTER SERIOUS HOLD-UP. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) HONG KONG, September 28. Shanghai's bus and tram strike in the International Settlement was set-j tied tonight after lasting a week, and causing the worst transportation tie-up | in the history of Shanghai. The services are being resumed today, but it is not announced whether the bus and tram strike in the French concession has been settled. Nearly 1000 coolies in the Public Works Department of the settlement have returned to their jobs. It is estimated that 8000 men were on strike, the daily loss to the companies being 83,000 dollars, and the total loss more than 330,000 dollars. Forty-one persons were arrested and 12 injured in the week's disorders. Many of the settlement streets are littered with garbage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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133STRIKE SETTLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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