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Thursday, June 1, 1972

PLASTICS INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE CONDUCTS

Second Manpower Survey Of The Plastics Industry

The Plastics Industrial Committee, one of the 10 associated

industrial committees of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee, will conduct, with the assistance of the Labour Department, a second manpower survey of the plastics industry during the period from today

to June 21, 1972.

The first manpower survey was conducted from August 18, to September 2, 1967, in which 99% of the factories covered in the survey

willingly supplied the information required.

The Plastics Industrial Committee has subsequently compiled

and analysed the statistical information obtained and published its findings and recommendations in a manpower survey report, which has been available in both English and Chinese at the Government Publications Centre at the Star Ferry Concourse since February 18, 1970.

The committee is pleased to learn that Government has already

implemented some of the recommendations.

At the time of the first manpower survey, manpower statistics

in the Labour Department showed that in September 1967, the total labour force was 51,556 and the total number of registered and recorded factories

was 1,542.

In December 1971, however, the corresponding figures had risen to 59,021 manual workers and 3,019 registered and recorded factories.

In view ...............