Cantonese merchants resent the!
thods of the local strike and boy-Teaders which have served the business of the Canton-Jose merchant interested in southern trade and waieh are resulting in seamen from Tientsin, Hupeh and Shantung replacing the Cantonese Seaman De the ships. The Canton. ese and the Ningpo seaman has almost had a monopoly on both Chinese and foreign steamships. Both jate gradually being replaced men from other parts because they {refuse to return to work. The fact that all the local leaders. partieularly the Chamber of Commerce men, lave either Cantonese or Ningpoese is leading to considerable hard feeling among those merchants from both places shove business is still at a standstill.
For a while the Cantonese merchants were using Russian ships }to do a part of their business, but because of their strong antagonism to Russian policies in Kuangtung and because of the possibi the Russian ships providing the Bolshevik Government there with more information than is good for' the merchant, they prefer not ta have too much to do with the Russians.—Ohinese ships are too slow and are in danger of sequestration for war purposes. [The result ix that southern bus-mess is practically at a standstill {and the sufferer is the Chinese merchant whose resentment is constantly growing.
Too Many Cooks The capture of the Shanghai Street Unions Association by. the radical wing of the May 30 Jeaders among the merchants does not augur well for the existence of the united association. Many of the} local street unions resent the attitude of the central organization toward the strike question.—The no as benefited. The central merchants have lost the money and
organization has power at present only for mischief. It can exercise no control over the local street un-fons, each of which has a president As one man suggested to our reporter, "It is like Chinese politics: there are too many great men. Each president- of each union desires to control the policy of the whole organization and the rivalry and jealousy is such as to make Jgenuine union diffeult if tot impossible, Maid so Laat Sica
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