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trary Preparatury Amman of Labour bongurs.
wife
12/3/27.
COPY
SS OR ST.
No. 87.
sir,
BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL.,
BATAVIA.
May 2nd, 1927.
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I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a
letter, dated March 12th last and addressed by the "Head of
the Preparatory Bureau of the Pan-Pacific Labour Congress"
at Canton to the "V.S.T.P." (1.0. "Vereeniging Staatspoor en Tremweg Personeel", or Union of Railway Employees) in
Java. as you will observe, the letter conveys an invita-
tion, issued in the name of the Commonwealth Trade Union
Congress of Australia and the All-China Labour Federation,
to send delegates to attend a conference fixed to take
place at Canton on May 1st, 1927.
Similar invitations were despatched at the same
time by telegram to the following labour organisations in
java, all of which, like the V.5.T.P., are known to be un-
der the control of the communist party:- The Union of Post-
al Employees, the Union of Workers in the Sugar Fastories,
the Union of Dockers and Seamen, and the Dutch Indian Red
Association of Labour Unions (Secretariaat Vakbonden Kerah
Indonesia). The last-named organisation is now defimet.
3. In supplying me with a copy of the document here
communicated, an official of the Dutch Indian Intelligence
Service writes as follows:-
"The plan to hold this Congress at Canton appears to "have arisen out of the proposal at one time put forward to "hold a similar Pacific Conference at Sydney in July of
flast year, in which the guiding hand of the Red Labour In- "ternational at Moscow (Profintern) was to be detected. The "said proposal does not seem to have materialised; at least, "nothing has since been heard of it".
The suggested conference at Sydney formed the
The Right Honourable,
Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., P.C., M.P.,
etc.,
etc..
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Foreign office,
LONDON, 8.#.1.
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