Association Mutuelle des Employés de Commerce et d'Industrie du Sud-Vietnam
Association Mutuelle des Employés de Commerce et d'Industrie du Sud-Vietnam (fl. c. 1946 - 1960), initially the Association Mutuelle des Employés de Commerce et d'Industrie du Cochinchine, was an unaffiliated trade union based in Saigon primarily for French colonists. Unlike other trade unions active in Indochina/ South Vietnam at the time, the organization did not have an affiliation with any Communist or Socialist movement, or the powerful Confédération Générale du Travail. Their affiliation with the Chambre de Commerce suggests they were a politically moderate union of skilled professionals.
Vestiges of French colonialism in Saigon.
This is a c. 1956 map of Saigon published by the city's Chamber of Commerce and the Mutual Association of Commercial and Industrial Employees of South Vietnam. It primarily shows the city's two main centers of Cholon and Saigon soon after Vietnamese independence. (more details)