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Mm. Grima by fore
agreed this
to
sanction
Grace, in 1927
the orders from the Central Government,
baratom
the Pre-
Committee of the Chinese
Seamen's Union proposed to open branches
in the different ports including Hong
Kong.
It was explained that this Union
and the Canton branch of the Chinese
Seamen's Labour United Association"(the
Canton Seamen's Union), were quite different
On this explanation, the
organisations.
Government of Hong Kong replied, that they
welcomed the efforts of the Central Government
irresponsible
to restrain the
activities of
Seamen's Unions in Canton and other Chinese
ports, but that the interests of the Chinese
Seamen in Hong Kong were adequately protected
by the "Chinese Seamen's Associated Union",
and that, apart from the legal aspect of the
There
case, would seem to be grave objections to
the establishment of a separate organisation
having the same end and functions.
(The
reference to the legal aspect of the case is to the provisions of section 7 of the "Illegal Strikes and Lockouts Ordinance of 1927" which
forbids the establishment of a branch union
with headquarters outside the Colony.
At the end of 1934, the question
of the Hong Kong Government's refusal of
the request from Nanking to establish a branch
of the Union in Hong Kong, was referred to at
the discussion which the Governor held with
His Majesty's Minister at Hong Kong at that
time.