The Archive · 1927

Fewer Labour Demonstrations

Stortly after the "Nationalists took over Chekiang Province, there were labour processions and di mands ere and there for increased wage However, work became searce and less is heard from the actual workers, Business along the streets seemed hardly normal except in a few lines.

We were told that Chinese students are giving their Chinese teachers some anxiety. The attitude of the few groups that we Eappened to suring to fo pear that the student-soldier in the march from Canton to the Yangtze, has modified his enthusiasm, but to the class-room student, propaganda fed is at the hair-trigger stage to demonstrate.

Tt may be noted that the local Customs and Post Office have funetioned through all the war-scare with remarkable ness This remark from a friendly Chinese may be passed on for what is worth, "Yes, you foreign Chekiang, tax collectors busiest people that T xew on the trip. icious of all is the ww, which provides that a Tentee may not be ousted from possession at the expiration of his: term of tenancy, The Nanking Delegates Nanking has sought the establish. ment of a permanent branch Central Executive Committee to sit in Canton, and have charge of the adminis tration of all civil matters, It was contemplated that as soon as this committee of 16 members met, the temporary organization would cease to exist, and furthermore that its control of military affairs would Pass to the Kuan Sz Teng, or Provincial Military Department, and that its control of party affairs: should be assumed by the Provincial Kuomintang as of old. But only nine of the 16 appointed on the new committee are in Canton, and two of these, Chan Foo-muk, and Kam Ngai-kuang are such rabid communists that they will not be: tolerated longer. Seven is not a quorum, and hence this nucleus of the new committee have got together and jointly sent a telegram' to Nanking asking for further instructions,

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