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GEN/14/368/50
Facility
Pre-Strike
COMPARATIVE LABOUR FIGURES 1967
1968
HARBOUR AND SHIPPING FACILITIES
APPENDIX 'B' (iii)
Labour Force
Communist Union Membership
Now
Dismissed/ Strikers
March 1967
March 1968 Nov. 1968
Currently
Active
Lighterage
Coxswains
2,000
2,000
100
389
389
550
30
5,000
5,000
350
915
915
915
70
Cargo Supervisors
2,500
2,500
600
1,312
1,312
960
150
Ship Paint Scrapers
3,000
3,000
200
239
239
300
30
Stevedores
3,000
3,000
1,000
1
Seamen
75,000
75,000
450
26,727
26,727
27,000
Total:
90,500
90,500
2,700
29,582
29,582
29,725
1,830
1,000 (working
in communist
companies - no communist union in this field)
550 (in H.K.)
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