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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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La/Co* Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask
the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if in view of the fact that factory workers in Hong Kong earn £4 10s. per week of 48 hours, what consultations he plans to have with the Governor in order to improve these low standards of payment.
4 November, 1968
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1. Lillian Whitlock
None, Sir. I do not know the source of my hon. Friend's
information but in fact even the average unskilled industrial
worker earns £5. 5s. for a 48 hour week. #y Hon. Friend might
Imay seem still call these low standards but they are among the highest
in Asia and improving all the time, as a comparison between the
wages and cost of living indices would show.
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