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"The latest score on night work for women
is that it is still very much of a flop.
Up to
date, I have authorised twelve cotton-spinning
.mills to operate schemes but only seven have been
able to do so. Because of practical difficulties,
I agreed in July to allow cotton spinning mills to
start on a minimum shift of 40 working up according
to fixed monthly schedules to 100 by the Lunar
New Year. Even with this concession, managements
have run into recruitment difficulties. At the
moment, only 417 women are working as operatives
on night shifts in seven mills. There is no
controversy on this subject locally".
Basaris
((Miss) B. A. Davies)
Overseas Labour Adviser's Department
15. September, 1970.