CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 76

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15th Jamery, 1927.

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Sir,

Although the Council of Government at

Canton contains within its ranks no single member

who has been a labourer or who can properly be

regarded as representative of the labouring classes,

nevertheless the Canton Soviet affects to consider

itself a Labour Government and the indulgence and

laxity with which it has treated the working mana

is largely responsible for the labour unrest in

huang-tung and particularly at Canton. of late,

however, labour has got so completely out of control

and strikes have been of such frequent occurrence

that the Canton Provincial Council instructed the

Peasants' and horkmen's Bureau to draw up

regulations for the control of disputes between

labour and capital. The bureau accordingly

drafted regulations and submitted them on the

27th December for the consideration of the Council.

I attach a translation, taken from the isun Han Yet

Bo of the 28th December, setting out in full these

draft regulations together with the objects and

reasons of each. The draft regulations were duly

considered and revised by the Provincial Council

The Right Honourable

Lieutenant Colonel L.C... Amery, *.P.,

etc.,

etc., etc.

and