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Monday, September 3, 1973

Mr. Price said Wintex appeared to be a good example of employer

and employees working together. Representatives of the firm's 160 workers -

roughly 60 per cent of whom are women

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have regular informal meetings

with the management to talk over their problems.

"We have found that in this way we can stop trouble before it

starts," said the firm's director, Mr. James Cheng Hok-lai, "so we have

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only had a couple of problems here in the last few years and because we

knew each other, we were able to talk those out sensibly and find a solution.

We know each other and we talk to each other, so there is no communication gap,"

he said.

"In fact it seems to be working so well that I am now looking at

the possibility of setting up formal joint consultation machinery along

the lines suggested by the Labour Department's Labour Relations Service."

Workers representative Miss Wong Tan-tie, a linking worker who is

one of the workers' representatives, said she felt the regular discussions

between the workers and the management were the reasons for the happy

working atmosphere in the factory.

"We

"We always have a chance to air our complaints," she said.

have a workers' representative on each floor and whenever we encounter

any problem, the representatives will take up the matter with the management."

"There is not so great a gap between us and the management that

we feel we have to take drastic steps straight away. And because

management gets a chance to understand our problems, we find they meet

us half way without our having to threaten industrial trouble.

"The management .....