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Code telegram to H.. Consul-General, (Hankow).
Foreign Office, 31d December, 1926. 6.30 p.m. No. 5. (R).
IMPORTANT.
Your telegram No. 71 (of December 3rd: closing of British Cigarette Company's factories).
Company are making further enquiries as to call of closing down of works in regard to which they
have no information.
Meanwhile in response to representations made to them from here, Compay ere instructing their local representative to consult you and try and arrange through you for some third party such as a Chamber of Commerce to come forward with proposal that strike pay should be given to workmen after they have resumed work for period of one month. Company would of course then reimburse third party. Reason for this proposed solution through third party is to avoid cleating the very serious precedent, which could be made use of in Shanghai and elsewhere of Jompo y reinstating men by paying them wages for period when they were on strike.
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