CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 171

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Mr. Samuel Gompers,

President, American Federation of Labor,

Washington, D.G.

Dear Sir:

Permit us the liberty to submit for your serious consideration the matter of the Hong Kong seamen's strike, which is threatening daily to be of tremendous consequence to the shipping of both sides of the Pacific, and at the same time goes to the very root of the labor movement of

the world. In reality, the question goes deeper than just a mere increase of wages, as we shall presently reveal in

the contents of this letter.

We are primarily moved to appeal to the American Federation of Labor for sympathetic support on behalf of our

fellowseamen in China because we are familiar with the

American sense of fairplay. We know the American Labor

cannot tolerate any form of tyranny wherever it may happen

to be.

Hay we not, therefore, bespeak your keen sense of justice and generosity to lay before the American Labor these details of the Hong Kong seamen's strike.

Since Jamary 3, the strike has been going on, and the Chinese seamen have made repeated, as well as patient efforts to make the British ship-owners in Hong Kong s00

the reasonableness of their demand for an increase of their

wages. We say reasonable to ask for a slight inares se of

wages at this time because the cost of living in China, like

anywhere else, has gone up by leaps and bounds since the war.

Our