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Enclosure in Shanghai Despatch to Peking No. 141 dated 2nd April 1935.
Explanatory Note on Seaman's Organisations.
1.
According to a shanghai Municipal Council Police
Report dated 1st September 1930 the Chinese Seamen's Union
Reorganisation Bureau was established in May 1922 and
reorganised in April 1929, under the auspices of the Central
Kuomintang Headquarters at Nanking from which it subsequently
received a monthly subsidy of $2,000. The Bureau's address
was 450, Jukong Road, Chapel. This Bureau is also referred
to sometimes as the Chinese Seamen's Federation Union Committee,
but the translation adopted on its official stationery is
Chinese Seamen's Union Reorganisation Bureau. The actual
Chinese characters are
2.
head is
The organisation of which General Yang Hu is the
1.e. Chinese (or China) Seamen's Union Organising (or
Preparatory) Committee. Its Organic Byelaws appear to have
been approved, for due enforcement, by the Central Executive
Committee on 15th June 1933 and to have been subsequently
revised on 14th June 1934. It appears to have superseded or
absorbed the Reorganisation Bureau.
3.
It is worth recording that the original initiative
for Mr. Sung's overtures originated from the Central Mass
Movement Committee.