CO129-510-12 Proposals to establish Labour Advisory Council in Hong Kong- present situation and progress 14-11-1928 - 14-11-1928 — Page 4

CONFIRESTIAL. (2)

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5282€

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 14th November 1928.

300

30182/27

Tit reference to your confidential

lespatch of 23rd April 1928, enquiring what the

present nosition in in record to the proposal to

atcblish a Labour Advisory Council in Hong Kong,

end your subsequent confidential despatch of the 29th

August, I have the honour to forward the following

account of measures taken up to the present.

2. A beginning was made hortly after the

receipt of your confidential despatch of 4th July 1927,

on two lines:

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(a)

The establishment of a Sub-Department of

the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, and

(b)

The formation of a Committee to not as

a Inbour Advisory Council.

3.

The work of the bour Lub-Department under

the supervision of a cadet officer has been to collect

complete information regarding, and prepare an index of all Trbour Unions in the Colony cccording to istricts with particulars as to their objects, benefits, subscriptions, number of members, names of

TIESALMAN JOLONEL 7.3.11.3. TERY, M.P.

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