CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 238

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it. The men, according to the Companies, were also ignorant

of any desand made by the Union on their behalf. The Chinese

Companies on the 1st January unanimously resolved that the Seamen's Union did not carry the authority assumed by it on

behalf of the men, and they declined to deal with it. The

European Companies followed suit.

5.

The matter came to the notice of the Secretary

for Chinese Affairs early in January, his information being

that the situation was very serious and that arrangements for

a strike had been completed in Canton. He at once arranged

for a meeting between representatives of two of the principal

Shipping Companies and the Officers of the Semen's Union;

but it was apparent from the outset that the Union had no

intention of discussing terms for a settlement. A further

conference was arranged, but on the 12th January the Chairman

of the Union sent an ultimatum of twenty-four hours to all

Shipping Companies in the Colony, companies operating vessels

in foreign trade being now included; and the strike began,

6.

The Kwok Van Tong now came out into the open

under the immediate leadership of a man named Tae Ying-pak.

Tae Ying-pak was educated at Queen's College, Hongkong, and

was later a master in the Ellis Kadoorie School, Canton,

whence he was dismissed for organizing a strike among the school-boys. Subsequently he became a prominent member of

the Kwok Man Tong and, on the establishment of the Republic

in 1911, he was appointed Director of Education in Canton.

He left this post during one of the early changes of Govern-

ment under the Republic and travelled abroad, principally in

America. Upon his return he became known as a prominent

revolutionary and agitator. He edited a newspaper in

Hongkong which was forthwith prohibited by this Government

because of the seditious and bolshevist nature of its con-

tents, and he then went to Macao whence he was banished for running a paper on similar lines. On Dr. Sun Yat-sen's

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