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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY says that in the work of reconstruction
Hong Kong can also assist; for instance, Hong Kong can lend engineers, and can even assist Canton in any sound economic undertakings, such as the construction of railways, subject of course to terms and conditions to be mutually agreed upon. MR. MONG says that he would welcome and appreciate such assiât-
ance. He knows that in Hong Kong there are many experts whom
the Canton Government should regard as their "teachers".
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY instances the splendid co-operation now
existing between the Hong Kong Section and the Chinese Section of the Hong Kong-Canton Railway, which proves that willing
and friendly collaboration can achieve. He would like to say something about the labour problem in Canton. In recent
months the Canton Government seem to have put labour under
some control, but is that control going to last? He ventures
the opinion that no government should tolerate any organisa-
tion which attempts to impose its will on them, and which
arrogates to itself the power of a second government. In
Hong Kong such an organisation will not be tolerated for a
single day: the Goverment must not be dictated to. The Hong
Kong Government will of course assist labour in the attain-
ment of its legitimate aspirations, which would be for the
good of the Government as well as of the working-men.
MR. JONG agrees with this opinion. He thinks that labour can
be put under control now that the Bolshevist element has been
eliminated. It was only this morning that Mr. Chan Kung-pok,
who has come down to Hong Kong to meet him, informed him that
the Canton Goverment had already got rid of 19 out of 21
extremists in the labour guilds in Canton, and that it would
not be difficult to dispose of the remaining two.
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