893.711/50
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Chargé in China (Perkins)89
Sir: Supplementing this office’s despatch No. 6253 of November 16, 1929, regarding the ban of The Shanghai Evening Post from the mails, I have the honor to transmit a copy of a letter dated December 13, 1929, from Mr. Carl Crow, with its enclosure,90 from which it will be seen that the Labor Dispute Arbitration Committee of Greater Shanghai Municipality, in the matter of the strike of the Shanghai Evening Post printers, has upheld the attitude of The Shanghai Evening Post and justified it in every particular.
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It may be stated that while the ban continues, The Shanghai Evening Post does not consider that it is suffering materially as a result. Naturally The Post is interested in having the ban lifted but arrangements have been made for the forwarding of the paper in a manner which, though slightly more expensive, enables it to be distributed pretty generally.
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