The Striking Incident Research Of Postal Workers In Shanghai In 1932

In April 1932, Nanjing government decided to raise postage substantially , in inland province , range of raising postage was 1 to 2 time , in outlying district, for example , Yunnan and Xinjiang , range was 3 to 5 time . This news resulted in public opinion boiling at once, a lot of newspaper offices, publishing houses and postal worker organizations declared to condemn the policy. Some book field organizations opposed the policy positively, they pointed out abuse of the policy in economic burden of people, education development of outlying district and economic development, from reason of raising postage, some postal worker organizations condemned actively the policy and pointed out any abuse of postal cause . In order to speak in defence of the policy, Nanjing government started to debated with some public organizations by newspaper , but in debating process , some officials said wrong words, at last, NanJing government compromised , range of raising postage reduced half . After the policy was changed, people stopped protesting slowly, but it set off resentful mood to postal policy of some postmen. When people protested the policy, Shanghai postal service trade union put forward "strengthening foundation of postal service scheme" in order to change completely policy of postal service at that time, in the scheme chief content was merging postal service saving bank, the second was stopping offering allowance for airline company, the third was that income of postal service was only gave to itself. After the scheme was put forward, Shanghai postal service trade union propagated actively his view by newspaper, some public organizations supported the scheme also. But some officials rudely condemn the scheme, the situation got worse, at last postal workers went to strike. After postal workers went to strike, Nanjing government spoke in defence of postal service policy actively and strived for supporting of public opinion, the Ministry of Communication and Municipal government of Shanghai declared that the government couldn't gave in. when Shanghai postal service trade union and government stand tensely facing each other , some foreign institutions in China and immigrant organization started to set up temporary post office in order to maintain contract with outside world . In 1932, China lost a lot of sovereignty, the movement of foreigners arouse people's notice at once , in order to maintenance postal rights and interests of country , many people started to hope postmen to return to work at once , at this time formal representative of Nanjing government started to discuss with Shanghai postal service trade union . At last , with the hand of many public organizations , government and Shanghai postal service trade union reached compromise, trade union promised to let postmen return to work at once , government promised to set up "postal economic system research committee", the committee would research postal economic system and change it according to result of research , strike was settled peacefully at last. Strike was over, but problem existed stilly . In long time , "postal economic system research committee" couldn't put forward effective resolution, was hostile to government stilly , in order to remedy losses , post office shifted economic losses to railway department, this kind of behavior caused new contradiction . In a word , the strike strived any economic benefit for postmen , but couldn't settle up any substantive problem which puzzled postal service for a long time . After strike finished , government learned a lesson and started to reinforced control to some postal service trade unions, since then campaign of postal service trade union started to be restricted.