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MRS. RYLAND
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General and Parliamentary Secretary : MRS. GERTRUDE HORTON
19th March, 1931.
Dear Sir,
Child Slavery in Hong Kong
I beg to inform you that at the Annual Council Meeting of
the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, which was
held in London last week, and at which delegates from affiliated
Societies all over Great Britain were present, the following
Resolution was passed:
The N.U.S.E.C. in Annual Council assembled calls upon the
Secretary of State to fulfil without delay, the pledge made by the Colonial office to abolish the iniquitous custom of Mui Tsai or Child Slavery in Hong Kong. It urges as a first step the effective enforcement of the Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance 1929, which prohibits the employment of any further mui tsai in the Colony, and provides for the free conditions of employmen the registration and remuneration of existing mui tsai. The Council urges further, that adequate machinery be provided for the care and supervision of mui tsai and the appointment of women inspectors.
Yours faithfully,
A Hortow
General & Parliamentary Secretary.
The Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald.