CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951 — Page 13

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The Church House,

Great Smith Street,

London, S. W. 1.

5 March, 1951

Dear

Keminu

I have been looking at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Bulletin No. 19 of the 31st January, 1951, and have noticed that there is a reference on Page 5, to a trade dispute in the Fung Keong Rubber Shoes Factory in Hong Kong.

Yogga wrote to Mr. Flood at length on this subject

on the 22nd January and you will see from this letter that the closing down of this factory was caused neither by a strike nor a lock out but by purely economic factors connected with the price of rubber. I wonder whether you have yet been able to acquaint the I.C.F.T.U. of the circumstances of this case,

“ours sincerely,

BYS.

H. D. Kemmis, Esq.