CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 509

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pre-strike wage on a British coasting steamer for an ordina-

ry seaman - an individual who cannot steer a ship at sea, but at most can haul a rope, sweep up a deck or wash down a deckhouse. This wage was $20 a month. Allowing 85 as his contribution towards the seamen's mess for food, he was left with $15 a month for the support of his family. How many ordinary Chinese Goverment soldiers and sailors receive $20 a month? The model Municipality of Canton only pays ite street sweepers 88 to 89 a month.

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There being no res] hardship, an unreal agitation had to be fomented, and this was taken charge of by Chen Ping-sheng, who, I have reason to believe, is no seaman at all, but was used even before the Revolution

as a travelling agent for the Kuo Min Tang, distributing literature and smuggling arme - a record which no doubt earned him his recent pardon. The demands put forward by him were so impossible, that they could not be entertained and negotiations broke down. All seamen were then, nolentes volentes, ordered under threat to leave their vessels and come to Canton, where they were entertained and supported by the Kuo Min Tang. Had the agitation been confined to seamen, it might have lent to the strike a semblance of en

economic grievence, but pressure was gradually brought to bear on all other trades, until orders for a general "walk- out" on the morning of March 6 were given. Attempts have been made to describe this as a voluntary display of sympathy on the part of those concerned. Nothing can be

further from the truth. As evidence of the falsity of this pretension 1 will cite the case of my own servant for

Shemeen was also involved a native of Chekiang, who has been with me for twenty two years, and who certainly had no sympathy either with seamen or Cantonese agitators. Under a threat that he and his family of five would be

assassinated, unless he quitted my service, he would, unless hxi a settlement had been arrived at, have had to leave

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