CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927 — Page 83

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encourage the men themselves (whether members of the proscribed Union or not) to take the initiative in forming a new organization on lines which will make it independent of orders from elsewhere and will secure a satisfactory control of the funds. Permission

will not be given to revive in the Colony the name

of the recently proscribed organization, and a new

name will be an essential part of any reconstituted association of Seamen. The possibility of avoiding

a single large amalgamated association and, in the interests of the men themselves, of encouraging

separate associations for each trade concerned,

will be borne in mind.

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I need hardly add that nothing in the

nature of the suppression of Trade Unionism is

contemplated; but it has become impossible to tolerate in Hong Kong an anti-British political

organization, the tool of an alien Bolshevik Government,

masquerading under the false colours of a Trade Union.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

Cemento

Governor, &c.

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