商民协会是20年代后期中国国民党指导成立的以中小商人、店员、摊贩为主体的民众团体,商民协会存在时间不长,但它的建立及其与商会的矛盾冲突和合并改组,反映了国民党对资本家阶级的认识与态度以及对民众团体的基本政策,因而值得注意。一、商民协会的缘起与发展 1926年初,国民党首次倡议成立商民协会。在此之前,国民党“对于商民运动向 The Merchants Association was a mass group dominated by small and medium-sized businessmen, clerks and street vendors under the guidance of the Chinese Kuomintang in the late 1920s. However, the establishment of the Association of Merchants and its conflicts with the Chamber of Commerce and the merger and reorganization reflected The Kuomintang’s understanding and attitude toward the capitalist class and its basic policies toward mass organizations are therefore noteworthy. First, the origin and development of the Merchants Association In early 1926, the KMT for the first time proposed the establishment of merchants Association. Prior to this, the KMT ”for the movement of merchants to