TNAG-0088-FCO40-124-Social-welfare-working-conditions-in-Hong-Kong-1967 — Page 28

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Registry HB.18/6 No.

DRAFT

s/o letter

Type 1 +

To:-

From

Top Secret-

Seeret-

Confidential, Restricted: Unclassified.

J. Greenhalgh Esq.,

General Secretary, International Textile and

Garment Workers' Federation,

120 Baker Street,

London, W.1.

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Flaggel K.

(42)

bring about an

improvement

horms for

·looking woman and young persons. in induating

I generally.

97499 St.S.

able

within

but I hosts that on shall be

to make a start at least very that time

I have writ

reply to your

separate leter to you in

of the 10th April about hours of

work for wone and you persons in the long long textile industry. I/an, however, sending you this

separate and confidential note for your own

information.

I shoull like you to now that I feel very

strongly on this subject and have every intention of

continuing to press the long Long Government to encet

I can quite definitely the necesgury legislation,

say, however, the any undue publicity or pressure

will serv only to defeat rather than to achieve

the object for which we are striving.

This is

in dreshing

understandable if one fealises that in long kong

Atself the external pressures are widely believed to

Arise not so much from any concern over the plight of

Hong Kong workers as from a protectionist desire to

destroy Hon Kong's competitive position in inter-

national/markets in which she is competing with other

Asian/countries where wages are considerably lower than

as you

blow,

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but we files that get planched a stavis within a public abatement even to mind.

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