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steamers between Canton and Wuchow on condition of a

percentage payment to Union funds, and they took further

steps to augment those funds by a surcharge of 30% upon the rates and fares of the provincial railways, including the Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

14.

There was abundant evidence that the

stevedores and other sympathetic strikers had no separate

grievance but that they were coming out under pressue and

intimidation from Canton. It was known that the Seamen's

Union was attempting to call out all labour in the Colony,

employing methods of intimidation, and accordingly on the

1st February the Union was declared to be an unlawful

society, and its praises were closed. On the 8th February

similar action was taken against the Stevedores, Cargo

Carriers, and Tallymen's Unions, on the ground that they

were picketting the whole sea front and were intimidating

others from working. On the same date the export of coal,

rice, and flour from the Colony was prohibited except under

permit, and the export of silver bullion, already under permit, was subjected to special scrutiny; the ostensible

reason being that it was necessary to conserve stocks. It

was known that Canton was already ruming short of supplies

of all kinds, and, as regards silver bullion, the hongkong

Goverment became aware that the Canton Authorities were

relying for a very substantial part of their revenues upon

the profit made from the savviage of tan cent pieces from

bar silver imported in immense quantities from Hongkong.

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The position as between the shipowners and

the seamen was one of stalemate. There was evidence that

the seamen were most anxious for a settlement, and their delegates, who came to Hongkong on two occasions, appeared te be willing to discuss the matter on reasonable lines; but the Krok Man Tong interposed its authority and put its absolute ban on any conference which had not as its condi-

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