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THE LABOUR PARTY OF HONG KONG
CHAIRMAN:
MR. TANG HON TSAI
VICE-CHAIRMAN:
MR. K. HOPKIN-JENKINS HON. SECRETARY.
主席:
漢洋先
曾 健
副主席: 士
光
秘書:
MR. J. W. Y. CHAN
陳永 源先生
香港干諾道中六十四至六十五號 香沤巾菲廠商聯合會大廈三〇三室 303 C. M. A. BUILDING,
64-65 CONNAUGHT ROAD, C. HONG KONG
TEL.
4 3 2 218
4 4 1 8 21
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS
"SOLITANG"
29th June, 1965.
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in Hong Kong?, which has laboured under an unchanged Crown Colony administration for over a hundred years?
You said in the same article that a British Labour Government "would give encouragement to social democratic forces all over the world and particularly in Asia." Where is your encouragement for the social democratic forces in Hong Kong? All we have been given by your Government
is a slap in the face, in the form of a pronouncement by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that your Government has no immediate plans for
further constitutional change in Hong Kong. Where is your social democra-
cy now?
The Hong Kong Standard said, of your statement concerning self- government, "It is one of those smooth specious affirmations which seem
to mean rather more than they actually do." The Standard went on to sa
that "
it is by no means clear that a Labour Government would change the existing policy of clinging grimly on to the out-dated past." Was the Standard right in its assessment of your attitude, or do you
truly intend to put into practice some of the principles that you have
been enunciating?
In answer to this letter, please do not merely refer us to
another Minister of your Government. We will not be satisfied with a
smooth and specious passing of the buck. It was you who came to Hong Kong and spoke for your Party, which is not the British Government.
is you who made the statements, verbally and in writing, that we have
quoted in this letter. It is from you that we require an answer.
Yours sincerely,
P.S. On 24th June we picketed
the Legislative Council during a momentous debate on Education, with posters demanding self-government. Press coverage tremendous and laudatory. Two cuttings from the chief English Newspapers herewith.
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FOR THE LABOUR PARTY OF HONG KONG.
Tang Hòa Toài.
TANG HON TSAI: CHAIRMAN
K. Again Jenkant
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K. HOPKIN-JENKINS: VICE CHAIRMAN
G. A. Kennedy-Skifton
G. KENNEDY-SKIPTON:
HON. SECRETARY.
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