Mr. Gaminara
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Industrial Relations Hong Kong
With reference to recent telegrams about the strike at the plastic factory, it occurs to me that in the circumstances of Hong Kong it might be useful, in the comprehensive despatch we propose to send, to refer to the possibility of legislati on in regard to picketing designed to clarify the function of pickets and to restrict their number. (In this connection I would again refer to paragraph 2 of my minute of 29 December, 1966 on FED 336/400/04) regarding another change that might be made in Hong Kong trade union legislation).
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in Beunder
I recommended the revised picketing legislation/after the general strike of 1965 when mass picketing was accompanied by rioting. The law was changed and in the strikes of the last two weeks, picketing has been conducted peacefully and in accordance with the revised and more restrictive requirements of the law. I have tee long felt that the U.K. legislation on picketing is too loose and too easily misunderstood for the circumstances of countries, where tempers are apt to run higher than they do over here.
Code 18-757
(G. Foggon) 11 May, 1967