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crews who had served loyally throughout the boycott.kos)
4. It was not long, however, before the Steamboat Company had to complain of renewed interference with its trade to Canton and I refer you to enclosures No.) 3 and 4 in my secret despatch of the 29th October, 1926, which
describes the beginning of the trouble. By the 2nd November there was a marked decline in the statistics of passengers and cargo carried by the Company's river steamers; please see the third paragraph and enclosures No. 2 and 3 in my secret despatch of the 5th November The position grew steadily worse and from the 11th Novem- ber onwards the Company's river steamers carried practical- ly no cargo, the reason being that the Canton Seamen's Union demanded the dismissal of the crews engaged after
the Seamen's Union crews struck work in June, 1925, and
the reinstatement of the original crews, and that, this demand being refused by the Company, the Union with the connivance of the Canton Government maintained by strike pickets an effective boycott of the Company's river? steamers. Please see the second paragraph of my secret despatch of the 20th November. and the second paragraph of my secret despatch of the 3rd December. The circum- stances in which the Company at last made a complete and
humiliating surrender, dismissing their loyal crews and
treuve engaging crews forced upon it by the Canton Seamen's Union, are set out in paragraphs three to six of my secret despatch of the 24th December? The loyal crew of s.s. "Sui An" was discharged on the 16th December, that of
s.s. "Kinshan" on the 20th December and that of s. S.
"Lungshan" on the 21st December. Since then the Hong Kong Canton & Macau Steamboat Company and all the other local
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