CO129-504-7 Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance- 1927 21-3-1927 - 26-11-1927 — Page 16

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5. Section 4, whiah is designed to protect persons refusing

to take part in illegal strikes, from expulsion from their union

cr fine or loss of benefits, is taken almost word for word

from clause 2 of the English bill, with the omission of the

retrospective sub-clause (3).

6.

Sub-section (1) of section E is based on section 7 of the

Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, 38 39 Vict.

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c.86, and sub-sections (2) and (3) of section E are based on

clause 5 of the English bill.

7.

Sub-section (1) of section 6 is based on clause 6(2) of the

English bill, the Government of Hong Kong taking the place of

the "local or other public authority" of the English clause. Sub-section (2) of section 6 deals specifically with the ques-

tion of notice. Sub-section (3) of section 6, which is aimed

at strikes in essential services which are commenced without

due warning, is based on section 4 of the Conspiracy and Pro-

tection of Property Act, 1875, but it extends the principle

of that section to electricity, to telephone and sanitary

services, and to the meane of transport by railway, ferry, tran

and bus. Sub-section (4) of section 6 is copied from section

5 of the above English Act.

8. (1) Section 7 is intended to free Hong Kong trade unions

from the risk of domination by organizations cutside the Colony.

Past experience shows that there is a grave danger that such

domination if it were allowed to exist, might in some cases

be used, not for any genuine trade union purpose, but for bol-

shevistic and anti-British cbjects.

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(2) Sub-section (1) accordingly provides that, exeept with

the consent of the Governor in Council, no trade union which

is established within the Colony shall be affiliated or con-

nected