CO129-552-7 Chinese Seamen's Union- request to set up branch in Hong Kong 2-1-1935 - 19-7-1935 — Page 22

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Enclosure in Shanghai Despatch to Peking No. 141 dated 2nd April 1935.

Explanatory Note on Seaman's Organisations.

1.

According to a shanghai Municipal Council Police

Report dated 1st September 1930 the Chinese Seamen's Union

Reorganisation Bureau was established in May 1922 and

reorganised in April 1929, under the auspices of the Central

Kuomintang Headquarters at Nanking from which it subsequently

received a monthly subsidy of $2,000. The Bureau's address

was 450, Jukong Road, Chapel. This Bureau is also referred

to sometimes as the Chinese Seamen's Federation Union Committee,

but the translation adopted on its official stationery is

Chinese Seamen's Union Reorganisation Bureau. The actual

Chinese characters are

2.

head is

The organisation of which General Yang Hu is the

1.e. Chinese (or China) Seamen's Union Organising (or

Preparatory) Committee. Its Organic Byelaws appear to have

been approved, for due enforcement, by the Central Executive

Committee on 15th June 1933 and to have been subsequently

revised on 14th June 1934. It appears to have superseded or

absorbed the Reorganisation Bureau.

3.

It is worth recording that the original initiative

for Mr. Sung's overtures originated from the Central Mass

Movement Committee.