is always available when, as in recent years, conditions
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in China are unsettled. However, as mentioned above the
Governor has powers under the Trade Boards Ordinance to introduce
statutory regulations of wages for the industry and he
will no hesitate to use these powers if it seems to him
necessary or desirable to do so, the time right to considered And the pure it is furpose
appropriate to enquire from the fovernor whether in his new the
comparative absence of collective agrements in the textile industry
He wages paid, do not suggest that an exquery
t
enquiry into the industry
with a new to the establishment of a trade board might now be
undertaken. at an engiory would
balah favourably sound
by the trade warious manth he widesca of a percard social probing,
The Report of the fort of Hong Kong for spil. Meg on the application of the
1450 1949
International Labour Convention on Mincinum Wage Fixing suggested
liate board that the setting of 2 a
45.
loved be considered if new agreements in the cardusty were not forthcoming.
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