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The Secretary of State for the Colonies,
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Hong Kong Citizens
In the matter of
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Tal Dince 1927 many citizen employees have had NO SALARY INCREMENTS WHATEVER,
while many, even more unfortunate, HAVE LUST THEIR JOBS ALTOGETHER.
(b) Their life-savings & Old-age provision have VANISHED with the vanishing.
They have no future but the WORKHOUSE
If that.
CIVIL SERVANTS T
"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) binoe Jan 30 the Treasury rate of exchange has FURTHER INCREASED this 100%
[300% above citizen scale.) (d) Have their huge quickly farned pensions awaiting them, not in depreciated
but in 2's STERLING
(c) Have by-camous]
Te endless privileges & perquisite
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10 to 12 months Vacation every 43 or 2 years on FULL PAY, Unlimited bertha
Becnubs of (a) & (e), MORALLY, Civil Servants' salaries should be # of Citizene '
----
MT 3 (three) times greater, as at present.
Government pay, pension, pañquisites & privileges (for ex, giving unlimited
petrol to men, wives & families at 735 for which the oppressed Citizen mays Ž is utterly foreign to British justice, and is disgracing the name of Britain,
INCREASE IN LIVING' COSTS.
O_INCREASE. NIL Meaty Mggny Vegetables, Fish, Local Wages, Shoes, Cloth, Newspapers, frams & Buses Milk 64%, Bread 20%, High Class Luxuries 25% to 75% %. All-round Increase 25%.
London price H.K, price Foreign Goods, considerably LESS than Home prices IE, £I London≈$177 hereƒ16/6
bee Leading article in H,K,"Daily Press" 24/1/31 "Our Amazing Dollar", admittin
that the purchasing power of the $ is almost as great as it was a year 250,
GOVERNMET SERVANTS will stres
(a)will-stress their legal right to full Sterling equivalent, BUT ----- THEIR DOLLAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ARRANGED DOLLAR (SHEER SHYLUCKISM
(b) that their 60% increased pay will be used for the purchase of English
Goods, BUT ........ đồn't you, sir, believe it,Govt, wives are as canny as any,
and the surplus$$$ will go where the 100's of IUGO'S of surplus went last
year Geo... INTO THE BANK, and it takes some pass-book manipulation to dispose
of all.
1930
The Hong Kong FUBLIC will not be satisfied until those HUNDREDS OF INJUBANUD OF Wians (or is it MILLIONS?) OVERLAY through HABIC INCHES PACHARUM OUT. OF. KIOLURILE TV IMKAARNA LIVINE COSTA, stolen from them in. I
and now reposing in Civil Servants' BANKING ACCOUNT is refunded to the Aublic purse, or in default, SUBTRACTED WITH INTERL&T from JUTURE INCAMMANID ̧ The Hong Kong šublic ask for JUBTICK ONLY.
Mr. Soong points out that this lessening of the hardship is due to the fact that the purchasing value of silver for domestic com- modities has not greatly depreciat-
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Sincerely,
MARCH 17, 1931.
"Juba Smith