CO129-556-14 Chinese Seamen's Union- activities 1-7-1936 - 16-2-1937 — Page 72

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An organisation called the

Chinese Seamen's Union which was based on

Canton was declared by the Government of Hong Kong on the 26th of May 1927 to be an unlawful

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society

Section 4 of the Societjes Ordinance

1920. This suppression followed upon the

Seamen's strike at Hong Kong. The present

application on this file from a Union of the

same name shows clearly that it is the

same organisation which organised the strike,

and which was suppressed in Hong Kong in 1927.

In 1933 application was made to

the Government of Hong Kong through the Consul

General at Canton for the right to establish

a branch "of the Chinese Seamen's Union" in

the Colony. This application came from a

Department of the Central Government in Nanki

on whose authority it was stated that the

formation of this Union was a scheme organised

Nanking,

by the Central Government of China with the

idea of having one Seamen's Union for China, and

that by this

ans, the Central Government would curb

be able to command the power of the Canton

branch of the Seamen's Union and to prevent its

undesirable and disruptive activities. It

was further explained that pursuant Cremati

on

the