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HWB 18/6
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J. Greenhalgh Esq.,
General Secretary,
International Textile and
Garment Workers' Federation,
120 Baker Street,
London W.1.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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Thank you for your letter of the 10th April
concerning hours of work for women and young persons
in Hong Kong.
I am very sorry indeed that my letter of the
7th April disappointed you so much, but hope that
your disappointment has been alleviated, at least to
some extent, by your subsequent discussion with
Mr. Foggan who has,I believe, explained to you some
the difficulties with which we are faced.
hat I feel that I must, in self-defence, comment
third
fourth
on the 3rd and 4th paragraphs of your letter. In
paragraph 2 of my letter to you of the 7th April, which
you have accepted as being a substantially accurate
account of what I told you on the 16th February, I
said that the relevant memorandum would probably be
put to the Hong Kong Executive Council in about two
weeks' time. In the event it was put to Executive
Council on the 7th March, so that I was not very far
out in my estimate of the timing.
Again, I am quite sure that when Mr. Lee
saw the Delegation of British fextile and farment forkers' leaders on the 21st June, 1966, and when he
saw Ernest Thornton and yourself on the 19th
December, he had no intention whatsoever of delibera-
tely misleading anyone. He was in fact expressing
at
his own hopes and expections of what would happen and
the fact that they have not yet materialised would
disappointment to him as it is to me.
/AS
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