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tried to make on contracts of employment in this country. He also seems unwilling to accept the fact that all employers who bring foreign workers to this country, paying their passage here, risk being let down in exactly the same way; and although one natu ally has sympathy with those who pay the expensive fare from Hong Kong, there really is nothing which can be done about it.

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The other main thing is that Hong Kong could alter their law to make it possible for the employer to get the passage money, Hong Kong - London, refunded by the worker so long as the repatriation passage was guaranteed by the employer. Needless to say, one would not want to explain this to Mr. Burn, but I think it would not be unreasonable that Hong Kong should explore using the flexibility allowed by the I.L.0. Convention, even if they amend the law in such a way that this flexibility would apply only to contracts for employment in the U.K. and perhaps Europe and North America.

So

Miss S. A. Ogilvie) 26th January, 1968.

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