CYPHER/CAT A
ROUTINE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 592
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CONFIDENTIAL
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25 JULY 1959
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ADDRESSED F C O TELNO 592 OF 25 JULY REPEATED PEKING, WASHINGTON
AND POLAD SINGAPORE.
COMMUNIST TRADE UNION OFFICIALS.
to see
CN 22ND JULY, 23 FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE HONG KONG COVERNMENT
WATERWORKS WERE FOUND GUILTY OF THE OFFENCE OF HOLDING TRADE
UNION OFFICE WHILE INELIGIBLE TO DO SO. THEY HAD EARLIER BEEN
SUMMONED UNDER SECTION 17(1) OF THE TRADE UNION REGISTRATION ORDINANCE AND CHARGED WITH HOLDING AN OFFICE IN THE HONG KONG
GOVERNMENT WATERWORKS CHINESE EMPLOYEES UNION WHILE NOT BEING
ENGAGED OR EMPLOYED IN A TRADE OR OCCUPATION WITH WHICH THAT
UNION IS DIRECTLY CONCERNED. THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WATERWORKS
UN ION CHINESE EMPLOYEES UNION IS A COMMUNIST UNION AND ALL 23
DEFENDANTS HAD BEEN DISMISSED FROM THE IR EMPLOYMENT AFTER ''STRIKING"
IN 1967.
2.
THE MAGISTRATE IMPOSED FINES RANGING FROM HK DOLLARS 833
TO DOLLARS 406 WITH THE ALTERNATIVE OF A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT RANGING FROM THREE MONTHS TO TWO MONTHS ACCORDING TO THE OFFICE
EACH DEFENDANT HELD. ALL DEFENDANTS REFUSED TO PAY THEIR FINES
AND WERE THEREFORE SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT.
THEIR TERMS IN THE VICTORIA REMAND PRISON.
THEY WILL SERVE
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