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time. His Majesty's Minister explained that

the Union in question was a Nanking organisation

set up as a power to check the power of the

Cantonese Seamen's Union, but as the Central

Government had not reverted to the matter

since their application was turned down, the

question was for the moment quiescent.

It will be appreciated that

there are various Seamen's and Boatmen's

Chinese Unions in and around Canton, and we

have instances of the continual strife which

goes on between them. The terms in which the

new Union organised by the Central Government

speaks of the Hong Kong Chinese Seamen's Union

(apparently the same as the Chinese Seamen's

Canton

Union of supports the view that the

latter is nothing more or less than a "racket"

on the best Chicago lines, and its energies

Poer and are devoted to oppressing the bower of blackmailing

the less poor. Whatever reconsideration might

be given to the question of establishing a

branch of the Nanking organisation, it seems to

me out of the question to ask the Governor to

look with favour on the organisation whose claims

Mr.Creach Jones (probably in ignorance) is now

championing.

Su

18.7.36.