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No. 145.
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15th January, 1927.
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Although the Council of Goverment at
Canton contains within its ranks no single member who has been a labourer or who can properly be regarded as
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representative of the labouring clases, nevertheless, the Canton Soviet affects to consider itself a Labour Govern- ment and the indulgence and laxity with which it has treated the working man is largely responsible for the labour unrest in Kuang-tung and particularly at canton. Of late, however, labour has got so completely out of control, and strikes have been of such frequent occurrence that the Canton Provincial Council instructed the Peasants' and Workmen's Bureau to draw up regulations for the control of disputes between labour and capital. The Bureau
accordingly drafted regulations and submitted them on the
27th December for the consideration of the Council. i
inclo. No. 1. attach a translation, taken from the Tsun Wan Yat Po of
the 28th Decembar, setting out in full these draft regulations together with the objects and reasons of each. The draft regulations were duly considered and revised by the Provincial Council and, on the 5th January, the Council
Unclo. No. 2. issued a notification, of which I attach a translation
taken
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.CM.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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