APPENDIX 15
The functions and duties of the Labour Officer concerned with trade unions.
If my suggestion that the work of the Registrar of Trade Unions be divorced from the Department of Labour is agreed and implemented, I recommend that the functions and duties of the Labour Officer concerned with `trade unions be defined as follows:
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To assist and encourage the development of the trade union movement in Hong Kong on sound lines by:-
(i) Advicé and guidance with regard to
(a) the formulation of objects and rules,
range of membership and types of workers
to be eligible having in mind the policy of the Government and the desirability of forming organisations in which every member can take an active part, be aware of its activities and in which the members will have a sufficient unity of interest to form an effective combination in order to achieve the declared objects of the union and in particular permit of the settlement of terms and conditions of employment by way of collective bargaining;
(b) the method of organisation;
(c) the proper methods of collecting membership
fees and, in collaboration with the Registrar of Trade Unions, to give advice on financial control;
(a) a suitable form of office organisation;."
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(e) procedure at meetings, both general and..
committee, and the keeping of records;
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(f) the principles and methods of the secret
ballot or taking of votes;
(g) the preparation of applications for registration
under the Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance.
(ii) Encouraging members of a trade union to take an
active part in the affairs of the union by régular attendance at meetings and participation in proceedings so as to evolve a healthy representative organisation in which all members have an equal right to participate in the control of the union.
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(iii) Assisting the emergency of sound leadership in all
unions.
(iv) Inculcating a spirit of discipline among members
of a union, teaching the principles of democratic government within the union, the necessity for complying with the decisions of the majority, readiness to accept agreements made by their properly elected representatives with employers or other unions when they have been empowered to make them, the identification of members with their executive officers so that unions may be regarded by employers as genuinely representative of their workers.
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