CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 12

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Canton No. 221,

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11 JUL 1927

COL. OFFICE

Government House,

Hong Kong. 9th June, 1927.

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Sir,

The Canton Political Council, whose

appointment was reported in my secret despatch

of the 26th May, has as one of its first acts promulgated the final text of the long-debated

regulations dealing with labour disputes: (see

my confidential despatch of the 15th January last). A copy of these regulations as published

Enclosure No in the local press is enclosed and attention is

specially invited to the duties imposed on the

Police in regard to strike breakers by Regula-

tion No. 7. Even when due allowance has been

made for the divergence, so usual in China, be-

tween published and actual intention, these

regulations promulgated by an anti-Bolshevik regime within a few weeks of the violent sup-

pression of its antagonista must form a freah

warning against undue optimism. It is indeed

difficult to understand how any hopes of an

early improvement of the British position in

China can be entertained. The Nationalist

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

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