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GENERAL SECRETARY: GEORGE WOODCOCK CBE
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Mrs. Judith Hart, M.P.,
Minister of State,
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London, S.W.1.
Dear Mrs. Hart,
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International
OUR REF GW/WH/DG
YOUR REF
January 27, 1967
Hong Kong : Day of Rest
My attention has been drawn to a resolution passed at the Eighth Asian Regional Conference of the ICFTU held in Hong Kong during December 1966, saying that the elementary right of workers of Hong Kong to a weekly day of rest was not being observed.
The Asian Regional Secretary informs me that one of the reasons put forward by Hong Kong government officials for the absence of legislation to provide generally for one day of rest a week was that the U.K. Government had not ratified Convention 1 of the ILO limiting normal hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week. The Convention became operative on June 13, 1921.
I should be obliged to have any comment you might wish to make regarding the situation in Hong Kong, which is clearly unsatisfactory in the eyes of the ICFTU Regional Organisation, and regarding the legislation which allows women and young persons to work ten hours a day for six days a week.
Yours sincerely,
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