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Sir,
Hong Kong Citizens
In the matter of
Hong Kong Citizens VERSUS Civil Servants
(a) Since 1927 many citizen employees have had NO SALARY INCREMENTS WHATEVER,
while many, even more unfortunate, HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS ALTOGETHER
(b) Their life-savings & ⚫ld-age provision have VANISHED with the vanishing
They have no future but the WORKHOUSE
IF that, PLEASE GET READY.
CIVIL SERVANTS
(or DOLE. J.
(a) have had usual large annual increments throughout slump & depression,
(b) Have had this largely incremented salary BASICALLY INCREASED AS from Jan30
< 50% above citizen scale.) (c) Since Jan150 the Treasury rate of exchange has FURTHER INCREASED this 100%
300% above citizen scale. J
(d) Have their huge quickly earned pensions awaiting them not in depreciated
but in 's STERLING,
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(e) have by eerouflage à subterfuge endless privileges & perquisites FLUS
10 to 12 months Vacation every 43 or 2 years on FULL PAY,Unlimited berthr
BECAUSE of (a) ♦ (e) MORALLY, Civil Servants' salaries should be of Citizens
NOT ♬ (three) times greater, as at present.
Government pay, pension, panquisites & privileges (for ex, giving unlimited
petrol to men, wives & families at $35 for which the oppressed Citizen pays
is a disgrace w British justice. Damalle INCREASE IN LIVING COSTS. ×
INCREASE NIL Meat, Eggs Vegetables, Fish, Local Wages, Shoes, Cloth, Newspapers, frams & Buses
Milk 6%, Bread 20%, High Class Luxuries 25% to 75%.
ALL-ROUND INCREASE 30%.
I London=$17; here, 16/6
Foreign Goods, considerably LESS than home prices 1.E.
Bee Leading article in HK. "Daily Fress" 24/1/31 "Our Amazing Dollar" admittin
that the purchasing power of the $ is almost as great as it was 2 years ago.
GOVERNMENT SERVANTS
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(a)will stress their legal right to full Sterling equivalent
THEIR DOLLAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ARRANGED DOLLAR,
(b) that their 300% increased pay will be used for the purchase of English
don't you, Sir, believe it.Govt, wives are as canny as any,
Goods, BUT
and the surplus $$ will go where the I00's of IUGO'S of surplus went last
INTÚ THE BANK, and it takes some pass-book manipulation to dispose
year
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of all.
The Hong Kong PUBLIC will not be satisfied until those HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS (or is it MILLIONS?) OVERPAY through BASIC INCREASE &
EXCHANGE OUT OF PROPORTION TO INCREASED LIVING CUSTS, stolen from them in 1930
and now reposing in Civil Servants' BANKING ACCOUNTS, is refunded to the
Public purse, or in default, SUBTRACTED WITH INTEREST from FUTURE INCREMENTS.
The
Hong Kong Fublic ask for JUSTICE ONLY
Sincerely,
Imith I mith