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DRAFT Saving Despatch
To:
Careras Hughing.
Type 1, +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I am addressing you with reference to
your Saving Despatch No.CR29/3231/49 of 28th
November, 1968, on the subject of the proposed
amendments to the Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs
N.P. welcome the decision.
Ordinance (Chapter 61)," A
of your Government to seek to bring up to date
and improve the effectiveness of your
legislation to protect the public interest
from strikes and lock-outs in essential
services; but I have serious) doubts about the manner in which it is proposed that this should
be done.
2.
It will be recalled that as far back as in
October 1960 (your Savingram No.2081) my
predecessor was advised that you intended to
your
review the Hong Kong essential services.
legislation in the light of the Model Ordinance
commended to all Colonial Governments at that
Important
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time. The principal features of this Model
Ordinance were:-
(a) that the right of workers to strike
(b)
in essential services would be difered
delayed but not prohibited;
the penal provisions would apply to all
breaches of contract in defined
circumstances; and
(c) steps would be taken to ensure that
workers in essential services would
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