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Government House, 36ơng Đàơng.
3rd October, 1934.
their industries vis-a-vis ours.
I definitely agree with Pelham's last
paragraph. We have done a good deal to improve
factory conditions and to place them on a proper basis
but any proposals to make the Colony adopt generally
conditions of employment on the lines of those in force
in the United Kingdom as suggested in Paragraph 25 of
the report should receive the most serious consideration.
It always seems difficult to make many of the people at
Home realize that the wages and labour conditions generally
which obtain among the Chinese in a Colony like this are
fully as generous and favourable to them as those which
obtain in the United Kingdom are to the labourers there.
Sir John Shuckburgh, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
Colonial Office.
Hems
surrect meil the
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