C
petitions
2
conf.
Frs. petition from members of the
1. Gov.
Service regarding
their salaries and
Conditions of service
6.7.39
Juris Clerical general
Recirc. to me on
1114
Aug.11
A.N. Galsworthy
28/
atonce
This is a petition signed by a
majority of the members of the Junior Clerical
Service (mostly Chinese), and addressed to the
Secretary of State. Before seeing this petition
the Governor had no idea that the Junior
Clerical Service were dissatisfied with their
salaries and conditions of service, and the
petition ought more properly to have been
addressed to the Governor in the first place. That
the appeal was made instead direct to the
Secretary of State is due, the Governor thinks,
to ignorance on the part of the petitioners of
their proper course of action; and the reply he
suggests is that the appeal should be made first
to the Governor and then later to the Secretary
of State if the petitioners are dissatisfied with
the remedies which the Governor proposes in this
despatch.
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