COPI.
1. Enclosure.
No. 141
(and three copies)
Copy to Sub-Legation, Nanking,
Commander-in-Chier,
Hongkong, Canton.
British Consulate-General,
Shanghai.
2nd April 1935.
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sir,
Explanatory Note.
In my despatch Number 330 of 2nd
December 1930 I had occasion to refer to the part
played by the Chinese Seamen's Union Re-organisation
Bureau in connection with negotiations for the increase
of wages of Chinese crews on foreign ships in China.
This organisation has in past years also intervened on
various other occasions, notably in July 1929 in respect
of a proposal for the admission of its representatives
on board British ships to canvass for members among the
crews, and in April 1930 in connection with an attempt to
press for the engagement by British shipping interests of
crews through the Seamen's Union instead of through
contractors and their other regular sources of supply.
In both instances, however, the companies returned an
unfavourable reply, and the matter was apparently
dropped for the time being.
2.
The question of union membership of the Chinese
crews of British vessels has, however, again been raised
during the course of a visit to the Shipping Office by an
English-speaking Chinese, Mr. L. P. Sung, described on his
His Majesty's Minister,
British Legation,
PEKIN G.
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