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In this presentation, I shall examine the labour migration within the seaport cities in Liaodong peninsula(Dalian, Yingkou, Andong) during the 1920-1930s'. The flow of Shandong people into Manchuria grew steadily beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, reaching an annual flow of about 300 thousand to 400 thousand people by the early 1920-1930s. They were the main industrial labourers in the cities. In particular, the Chinese labourer organization 'Bang(幇)' was in charge of loading and unloading work, which required a lot of labourer. 'Bang' was a group of labourers from the same hometown. The dock and railway station, which used to employ large-scale labours, gave full powers to 'Batou(把頭)', the leader of the 'Bang'. The object was to secure and manage a large number of labourers.