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HONG KONG
WEEKLY PRESS.
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POLICE CLOSE SEAMEN'S UNION NIGHT RAID
Activities Exceed Scope-Politics Involved?
Police on January 21 raided and closed the Hong Kong Chinese Seamen's Union. The reason for the proscription, though not yet known officially, is thought to have originated from the belief that the activities of the Union were not confined strictly to the interests of seamen but were of a political nature which the Government deemed " undesirable."
A Chinese report states that Union officials were planning to promote a Labour Federation in Hong Kong with the object of pursuing a certain political policy.
For the first time since the com- mencement of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, this is the first organisa- tion to be closed under the Emer- gency Regulations of 1922, and also the first to be proscribed by the Government and declared unlawful during the present crisis.
It is learned that the activities of the Union have been closely watched since the beginning of the hostilities, and it is believed that considerable correspondence cir- culated between the Union and labour organisations in America and Australia regarding the boy- cotting of Japanese merchant vessels.
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