[15 pages]This file contains a report on the potential unrest by the Chinese seamen. The seamen were suppressed by the middlemen who controlled the recruitment system and lodging houses, and there had been history of unrest by them in the early 1930s, leading the government to finally shut down the lodging houses and banished some of the middlemen, including some know communist leaders. After the war, a newly formed Seamen’s Labour Union were creating trouble, both internally (between its members who were pro-Koumingtang and pro-communist) and externally (with the ship’s company).The report ended by asking if the British were prepared to tolerate interference by the Union, and if it is possible to set up a division to handle seamen's issues.
Nov 1945 - Dec 1945
NA 870
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