Almost every resident in Canton is afraid of the extreme labour unions, in fact angry with them. They ave very well organized; they have their own pickets, who are really uniformed bandits well supplied with arms but no shoes, They have established their own regulations so far as police duties are concerned and have their own courts and their own prisons.
In this connexion, let me relate another incident which was repeated to me by a number of people:—A certain foreign vi interview with a high offic and questioned him about the pickets, their courts and their prisons, The official replied that he knew of none. "But," persisted the visitor, "T have seen them with my own eyes. I have been there.
tell you that there are none was the reply, trying to dismiss the subject. This was sufficient for the visitor who simply said "Good bye and left.
These unions for the most part fare run by a few interested i dividuals, was the statement made' to me by a former union secretary who has resigned: after seeing the)
Take -the following instance:—It came to-my knowledge, and I con firmed it, that certain of the union leaders receive from $3 to $25 per head for people who want to got Hongkong, labourer or otherwise, although they themselves are the most ardent ones in "preventing" these people from getting to Hong-Kong and in keeping up the boycott against Hongkong.
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