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HWB 15/6.
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Extrack from Nonthly Intelligence Report.
December 1966.
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The strike in the wast Asia textile factory at Tsuen Wan during which the Cotton Industry Workers' General Union (C.I..G.U.) was supported by the Textile Workers' Asian Regional Organisation (T.W.A.R.O.) and the International Textile Garment Workers Federation (I.T.G.W.F.) (L.I.C. report for November, 1966, paragraph 26 refers) came to an end without the question of an eight-hour day and six-day week being settled. It is planned that discussions on this point will continue between the union and the management. Although this particular dispute was not mentioned at the 8th Regional Conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (I.C.F.T.U.) Asian Regional Organisation (A.R.0.) held in the Colony from 12th to 17th December, a resolution was adopted urging Government to make the granting of one paid rest day a week compulsory. The Conference was completely ignored by the left-wing press, although a representative publicly described as being from the "Republic of China" was present and in spite of oblique criticism of the current regime in China made by the Chairman of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (T.U.C.).
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