It is not right to say that the shipping companies' problem in dealing. with the Seamen's Union is confined. only to the racket of the tea boys, Dut it is true enough to place on Tecord that the majority "of their difficulties arise from actions of this minor department of the greater union.
Last year the Government realized the seriousness of the situation and in September appointed a committee of ten under Mr, Pang Pah-zung, a local member of the Kuomintang,' to supervise the reorganization of the Seamen's Union. In the following month it appointed General Yang Hu, the Garrison Commander of Shang-hal and Woosung, to head all the Seamen's Unions in China on behalf of the Kuomintang. There was immediately active opposition from the officials of the union, leading in tone Instance to an attacic upon the unton's offices and an agitation which culminated In General Yang's however, to remain in resignation. General Yang
office, Morris nto of the union.
ning "cornelling more" "tuan Inquiry from Geneva, Some of the questions arted in this struggle for control attracted the Attention of the International Labour Bureau at Geneva, which inquired with apparently no effect. However, the Kuomintang had its way, and reorganization of the unions of shipping employees was put under way. It is still under way at the! resent moment, 4
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