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HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS

COLONY LABOUR OFFICER

RECOMMENDS

TRADE UNION ORDINANCE

Many Points Touched Upon

In Mr. Butters'

Butters' Report

on

A detailed and carefully analysed: report Labour and Labour Conditions in Hongkong, prepared by Mr. H. R. Batters, Labour Officer, has been issued.. Since 1931, the report says, there has been a great development in local. Industries, and factories have expanded in number from 403 in 1933 to 829 in 1938.

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Dealing with conditions in factories and workshops, the re- great differences between the port points out that there is a well-organised factories where employees are well treated and locked after and, the poorly constituted ones where workers are provided with few cr no amenities.

In connection with the subject, cheaper than European Mr. Butters made, in part, the Much the same may be

following recommendations:~~..

(a) a Trade Union Ordinance. (b) a Workmen's Compensation

COLONY ARP.

WORK

Examination And Results

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GENERAL

ST. STEPHEN'S

PRIZE DAY

Mr. Yeh Kung-Chao On Education

The annual distribution

are

The Air Raid Precautions Officer announces that an examination prizes and speech day of St. for Air Raid Wardens will be held Stephen's College, waa held on at La Salle College, Kowloon, and Saturday, when Mr. Yeh. Kung at St. Paul's College, Hongkong, chao, gave away the awards. at 5.30 p.m. on July 17, and for Air Mr. Yeh in his speech, said in Raid Warden Instructors at the part:-""Thirty-five years ago, I same time and places on July 17, was a teacher myself, but after- 18 and 19.

wards, having joined the gov Those who attended the ARP.emment service, my career as а course at St. John's Cathedral Hall schoolmaster came to an "end, al- who wish to pass an examination though I still take great interest will have a special paper set for in the work of education. Educa- them.

tion is the second life of a person. Those wishing to take any of Although our virtue, knowledge the above examinations are re- and ability have direct relation quested to send their names to the

with heredity and our capacity Air Raid Precautions Officer, stat for learning, yet when there are no proper ways to develop our labour. ng which examination they wish said of to take and whether they will go national potentialities, we cannot

to La Salle or St. Paul's College. Chinese riveters in shipyards

satisfy our needs. It, unfortunate- EXAMINATION RESULTS *** where four men will be seen

ly, the wise and the clever would

The Air Raid Precautions Officer not properly led. they may machine that handling a

the following ARP astray and become parasites 01 be worked by one European. As a announces

Examination results:

and they wil society

not be result, instead of one man draw- ing a reasonable

Shaukiwan Class-Instructor, Mr. wage we ind

good citizens of the country...., In place of the Minimum Wage

several existing

Mok Ching Um at subsistence

What is important is that not Ordinance, which has never func-

Passed as Air Raid Warden In-only mast we have the necessary level, which may avoid unemploy- tioned.

knowledge and ability in order to (d) an Ordinance (in place of ment but debases the standard of structor-Wong Po-im.

Passed as Air Raid Wardens-be a useful citizen, but also the the Factories and Workshops Or. living. This diffusion of work is dinance) dealing

obviated in many factories by the Chan San-ng, Yu Yik-yurig. Ching Conditions, generally and provid. introduction of the piece work Chen-fal, Cheung Man-kwong. Pun necessary virtue which makes the Labour Inspectorate system. In the large industrial Xiu-ting. Ko Hel-man, Tsang Wan action and speech of every citizen which will consist of both Euro-undertakings, such as the dock-heung, Yu Xik-keong, Tang Ping-have a beneficial influence on him-

tion. pean and Chinese Inspectors and yards, one has no difficulty in dis. thau, Tsang, Man-sze, Lau Chen-self, on society and on the Warden's Report. tinguishing the departments in leung Wong Po-lun, Chan Yun- Lady Inspectors.

which plece work or time work leung. Ngal Kwoon-ling, Lee Lai-

The report for the year, 1939 was wo, Man Po-kwong... Leung Wing- prevails.

tan, Yuen Yee-fong. Tsang Ying-read by the Acting Warden The system of sub-contracting | tak; Chu Fuk, "Leung Hol, Fung follows:

"For the second year in succes- Chee-keong, Su Yu-wah, Lee Kit- ping. Yuen Yee-ching, Chan Fong-slon a student of this College had sin, Leung Kit-san.

headed the list of students offer- ed

Government Education the University. scholarship to This student, Ylh Fong-row.

Ordinance.

(c) a Trade Beards Ordinance,

ing for

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with

Labour

in

Chinese Chamber of Commerce Class-Instructor, Mr. Fung

Tam-leung

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Commenting on the Minimum Wage Ordinance, passed 1932, Mr. Batters points to the

for labour is generally criticised failure ever to make use of the

as is the apprentice system, as an legislation, and describes it as

excuse to obtain cheap labour in merely a legislative gesture.

return for Ittle or no wages.

AL the

Butters outset, Mr.

The chief criticism that may be analyses labour conditions in the made against existing factories «is Colony from the viewpoint of that most of them were not de-

Passed as Air Raid Warden's came out head of all the candi- Chan Kwok-lam, Sham aggregate population, remarks that signed as such but have been con

Chakdates in the Matriculation Ex- excessive immigration depresses verted from tenement floors built Cheung Wun-fong. Chu Ying-wah,amination.

Liu Another student,

Chia the standard of living of the for housing purposes. In Hong-Wong Wal-yim, Li Fook-cheong, workers and adds that; with the kong there are 113 factory type chui Chúng. Chan Kwong-wing qualified for a Government edu- Impossibility of a tariff defence buildings as against 409 convert-KI Yul-yam, Lam Man-lee, Cheung cation Scholarship. Both, how=' It is feared by many that any im-ed tenement floors, and in Kow- Wun-chee, Ng Yan, Ho Chi-chau, ever, were unable to take up these provement in working conditions loon 180. factory type buildings and Wong. Wal-ching. Chan Chi-chi, scholarships. Yih Fong-mow had arrangements to would in economic competition 1.041 converted tenement floors. Wong Yee-mee. Wong Wal, Chu already made with 3 less socially developed In Kowloon eighty per cent of Ying-plu, Chong Koon-kam, Cheng enter Trinity College, Cambridge. Chung Wing-kwari, while Liu, Chin was already the China end in depriving the work- the converted tenements are situ- Kam-wun, ers of work and that, as it has ated in the Shamshulpo, Talkak-Chan Pul-yin. been expressed, excessive factory tsui, and Mong Kok areas. legislation may leave the with the legislation but

the factories.

· TRADE UNIONS

1,

holder of a Yunnan Scholarship. In Kowloon City Class-Instructor, The first Old Boys' Scholarship instances the number of

Mr. Tsans Shin-cheung in St. Stephen's College, was won Colony sixteen

certain factories without floors rented by

Passed as Air Raid Warden In- by Ng Wing-hang, the son of an exceeds ten, in one case as many [structors Chung Wai-ping, Leung Old Boy and the grandson of a been con-Pul-cho: Lau Wah-chin, Wong former teacher, Mr. Ng Ping-nam.

Mau-fan.

The Mok Kon-sang Scholarship Passed as Air Raid Wardens was awarded to. Lee. Shau-wal, Shiu' Po-sah, Chung Shing-chol. son of the Rev. Lee Kau-yan. In Lai Pui-chan...

as thirty floors have verted into one factory.

cast of

The Report goes on to sum-

"LIVING CONDITIONS marise the rise of labour to politi- cal prominence in China, the Analysis of wages and growth in power of the trade living is rendered difficult by the unions in the Kuomintang or fact that no adequate survey has ganisation, and their subsequent yet been made of the cost of ly-

ing of the labouring classes decline to practical impotence.

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MR. WONG PING-TONG

The death of Mr. Wong Ping- tong took place at his residence at No. 79a, Wongnelchong Road, on Baturday morning.

Mr. Wong was well-known 17

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the League of Nations. 8ociety Competition. Thung Liang-hoe was a prize winner.

Prize. List Among the senior members of the school to be a awarded prizes and certificates were:

Dux of School (Gold Medal): Mok Hing Yu;

tion).

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The history of guilds and trade Hongkong. unions ir. Hongkong, he paints out,

On the wages side, it is reveal runs parallel with that in China, ed that the artisan class is com so that "After the failure of the paratively well paid and general strike and boycott in 1926 women employees on plece-work

Dux of Chinese Studies (Hewitt and the proscription of the two may earn as little as 15 cents for commercial circles both in Austra-Gold Medal presented by Old Shi $500. big political unlons, the surviving a 9-hour day.

fia and Hongkong.

Boys): Lim Hee Tsu.

Through BFR.D.C., H.K. & S.C. Hongkong Untens became little The question of slum clearance His funeral takes place to-day. Wel On Scholarship: Mok Hing Branch Subscription Committee:-- more than friendly" societies con- and the provision of sub-economic

Yiu (another to be awarded on Lo Cheung Kee $2; Lee Kang Sang. cerned more with the provision of housing would appear to depand SOLDIERS FOUND results of Matriculation Examina-Wat Bang Tong, Cheung Lee, Shing funeral expenses for the dead than on the restriction of the population

Cheung Chuer. Ban Tong Hop the improvement of the conditions to numbers which the Colony can

NOT GUILTY.

Barnett Scholarship: Alex Chang Fung, Lee Tung Kun, Wang Hing, of the living."

properly support.

Brivates 8. V. Ward and Louls (another to be awarded on results Mai Chung, Ming Kee, Shang Hai The Report then deals with the

The present position is that Remer, both of the Middlesex Regi- of School Certificate Exam.). Book Store, Yat Yip Chuck, Tái history

of social legislation in

housing for the working classes is ment, were found not guilty on a Warner Scholarship: Lum Pak Loy Factory and Lin Fat-50 cents

· Hongkong, the measures taken to present industrial exploitation generally unsuitable, inadequate, charge of larceny, when a case Haen (another to be awarded on each; Kin Heung, Ling Chee Chi- and expensive. Families and indi- charging theft of $15 and $22.50 results of Matriculation Examina- nese Medicine Store, Shim Chuck of children, to regulate "the..em-

Gai Chung Cheung, Kung Wa ployment of women in certain in-viduals are thrown together to the from two men at No. 14 Shumchun ton).

Yau Printing, almost complete destruction of Street was re-heard by Mr. E Mok Kon Sang Scholarship: Lee Printing, Leung

Messrs. Kun San, Tung Lock Läu, (privacy. Where free housing is Himsworth at the Kowloon Court Shau Wal

not provided as part of a worker'a on Saturday.

Old Boys Scholarship: Ng Wing Messrs. Yick Cheung, Messrs. Wing Fat Cheung, Messra. Kun Ping, emoluments-and it must be re- Ward and Remer had been con- Hang.

dustries, to secure sanitary con- ditions in factories and so on.

Dealing: more specifically with

point:

As

Chow

conditions in factories and work-membered that such housing rare-victed on the charge at a previous Graduation Certificates: Chan Messrs. Wo Ping and Messrs. Hop shops, the Report says, at, one ly takes into account the possible hearing, when two other men were Kam Tong, Cheung Kim, Kwan, Tuen-$1 each; Sheung Ha! Book

existence of a family the amount acquitted, Captain H. Marsh, of Cheng Kok Tin. Chi Ying, Chung Shop. Loy Sang Tong. FEMALE LABOUR

required for rent in the case of a the Middlesex Regiment, was pre- Fin Wah, Goel Kim Poon, Harvey Cheung Printing, King Chal Tong, Soc Kun Ying. Messrs. Kun Sing, female labour la cheaper family man represents a dispro-sent at the hearing in the interest Sun, Herbert - King," Howe than male labour. female labour portionately large part of his of the two defendants.

Kee, Huxley Thomas, Kwok Hing Mesira. Hing Cheung Wa Kee, preponderates in

Plu, Lee Jim Beng, Lee Seng Beh. Messrs, Chuf Chun Yuen and those tradescome. where dexterity rather than phy-

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ALLEGED ATTEMPT Len Teh Hwa, Lim Mang Teu, Lim Messrs. Yan Wo Tong-50 cents sical strength is required. Chinese

The question of the inclusion of. girls employed as packers in to-

occupational diseases in the pro bacco factories, etc., are quite up

posed Workinen's Compensation to European standards of pro- Ordinance has been raised. It has ciency. On the other hand male been found dimeult to enlist the miners have not the necessary

and physique,

although their co-operation of the workers

measures for their own protection, wages

are lower than those in and attempts

to insist on the Europe or America, their output wearing of masks in the polluted la proportionately less, so that they cannot be said to be really

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Boo Tru, Liu Yin Shan Lin Pao each; Messrs. Tai Sang Tong and Messrs. Chan. Choy. Kee$1 each; Cheng, Lou Kou Chen, Maurice

"Messrs. Eing Fat, Mesars. Chan Fat An attempt to offer a bribe of Chang, Mok Hing Yin, Ng Ka Yung. Kee. Messrs. Ling Shee Yuen, $20 to Inspector O'Donavan, on Ng Yan Yee, Nz Wei Eig. NE Messrs. Yau Cheung, Messra. Yat Friday, find a sequel before Mr. T. Ching Lam Robert Chang, Lock Hin, Messrs., Yuen Kee. Messrs. Kwong Cheung wo, wing Hong Printing, Messrs. Po Sang. Messrs Tee Lee Co. and Messrs. Ka Kee-60 cents each; School of the Aid Association $10.64. Total: $478,968.43.

J. Houston at Central Magistracy Blan Liang, Tan Ying Tek, Wang on Saturday, when Yeung Kuen, 32, is Ling, Wang Tien Yi Wons and Kwan Keung, 57, were charged Cheng Yapp. with offering a bribe. duket te

Defendants, who were represent- on ball in the sum of 1250 in cash Mutual ed by Mr. M. W. Lo, were remanded and a bond of $250 each.

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