E..
Industrial
Du Lulo H.K.
1. Desp. Conf: from Hong Kong
Mr. Grossmith
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16/10/46.
que (1)
the
Governor
as
the to
whether
a
asks for advice
permanent Board of
Arbitration
shared
be set
eup in Mare
Kane,
o not
using the strike of two
ferry Companies
as aw
example of the
existing machinery for negotiation.
Same provision for arbitration is obviously
necessary,
and since the systems adopted in dis pute described does not appear to have been adequate,
as its main object should be to
the dispute
prevent strikes, some more permanent provision
should, I think,
in
be
be made.
I have not
saw the papers mentioned
but the penopotal appears
an ad hoc Arbitration Board, and I
para. 12
arly for
•venture to suggest that unsatisfactory since
made
only
as a
is often mavoidable.
atian
>
such a body is often
recourse to it in last resort when a strike
Trade Union organis-
will, presumably, increase in
Have Kame
and
it might be
as well to be prepared to meet it, perhaps by the establishment of a permanent Industrial court as has been set up in Malaya.
should be grateful for your views an
Quis
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matter
D.B. Whyte 5/1,