Proposed to Abolish Chinese Chamber of Commerce Alzrm is being expressed in Chinese circles over a proposal submitted to the Third National Congress of the Kuomintang by its branches throughout the country' that all chambers of commerce should be dissolved and that the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber shos'd be abolished altogether on. the ground that it is composed of "compradores, corrupt persons, and running dogs of the imperialists."
This has resulted in a petition being sent to Nanking by the Shanghai Chinese and Native Bankers Associations, the Cotton.
Millowners Association and numerous cther public bodies, in the course of which the writers say that they are both surprised and iarmed over the proposal because the chambers of commerce are legal organizations, the existence of which, recognized by the principles of the Kuomintang.
The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai, the petition continues, is quite a responsible organization. It has given no little id to the anti-northern expeditionary funds and the allegations that its members are "compradores, corrupt persons and running dogs of the imperialists" are absolutely groundless. The National Congress and the Government are requested to disapprove of the petition.
Deputation to Nanking proposal to abolish the us chambers of commerce was the subject of an important meeting of the Chinese Bankers Association, the Native Bankers Guild, the Cotton Millowners Association and 30 other "bodies, which was General Chamber of Commerce on March 23.
After lengthy consideration, yas decided to appoint Messrs. Ye Ya-ching, Tan Hai-chu, Wen Lanting and several other merchant leaders as a deputation to Nanking, there to present a lengthy petition to the Kuomintang Congress requesting that the chambers of commerce should be maintained,
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