793.94/8436: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, December 13, 1936—4
p.m.
[Received December 13—1:30 p.m.]
[Received December 13—1:30 p.m.]
606. The Consulate at Tsingtao by mail despatch dated December 1196 confirms report that the strike there has been amicably adjusted on the following terms: [Page 417]
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- Punishment of the principal offenders among the bad labor elements who have been discharged.
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- The foregoing bad labor elements to be deported from Tsingtao.
- 3.
- Beside the deporting of bad labor elements a strict watch over and control of other discharged laborers to be exercised by the Chinese authorities. In the event there is a recurrence (of the labor trouble) the Chinese authorities will be held strictly responsible.
- 4.
- Agitators of present labor trouble are to be deported.
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- The Chinese authorities are not only not to place obstacles in the way of laborers who wish to resume work but the authorities by proclamation and other appropriate means are positively to encourage and urge the resumption of work by the laborers.
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- The discharged bad labor elements must not be employed by the Municipal Administration.
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- The Chinese police are to exercise vigilance over bad elements among the laborers so as to preserve peace and order.
Some of the Japanese landing party have already returned to their ships according to press reports and the remainder will be withdrawn by December 15, but this is not confirmed by Tsingtao Consulate.
Repeated to Nanking, by mail to Tokyo.
Lockhart
- Not printed.↩