CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 81

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(Explanation).

A strike is a legitimate method

of securing improved conditions for workers.

If the masters are allowed to take in other

workmen during any strike, the strike will fail.

Therefore in order to ensure unanimity on the

part of the Union and the success of the strike

the government should make this regulation.

(2) When any factory or firm is closed (for

any reason), the workmen shall be given 1 month's

notice and a half-month's extra mages. If it is

closed without notice and arbitrarily, two months'

extra pay shall be paid.

(Explanation) The workmen out of work cannot get

food, and very few of them have adequate savings,

and therefore masters whenever they close their

factories or suspend their business cause their

workmen to run the risk of losing their employment

and livelihood. The Government therefore makes

this regulation in order to ensure to workmen a

secure prospect of earning their livelihood.

(3) Any merchant who dismisses a workman

unreasonably, shall pay him two months wages.

(Explanation) Naturally any master has the right

to dismiss any workman who has really neglected the

rules of him factory or shop. but any workman who

is dismissed without good reason must be in a

position to claim reasonable compensation, and

therefore the above regilation is made.

(4) When any strike on the part of any

workmen with a view to increase of wages,

settled