PRRANT'S PRESS CUTTINGS
A. Ganimara
77
- Sept. 1966 Inspections 16.679.
∙Prosecutions
Fines
557
$38,015
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Truths known in Hong Ko
(From John Rankin, M.P.)
Sir,-In Monday's issue you sev.
May 16, 1967. "Whether trouble in Hong Kong is Peking or not the present directed it behoves the authorities to tread warily." Those are wise words. And their wisdom would have been underlined had you emphasised truths weil known in Hong Kong.
For example, many workers in the textile industry toil 365 days each year unless it is a leap year. Then they work 366. In the gar- ment industry women and children work 10 hours six days a week with permitted overtime of 100 hours per year. Violations of these regulations are common and fines for so doing derisory. In a recent six months return they totalled £4 11s 3d.
we heard
Attempts at conditions are vigorously resisted reforming these by employers. Kave somewhere before of those "dark satanic mills"? And does it bring home to us that our brothers and sisters in this part of our shrinking Commonwealth suffer to-day the Injustices against which our own forebears rebelled 200 years ag57
The International Textile and Garment Workers' Unisa is recking only to raise the levels et Fring I've indicated, which apply over wide sections of people in Hang Kong. Nor art thoi gia They are trying to institute Assalto standards of life in Hong K?k
once glamourised in the halcyon days
as the shop window of democracy in the Far East.
great. If youth begins to get impa- So far the union has failed in its objective. Resistance is
political development before pas- tent and march, let's pause and too
sing judgment. think of our own industrial and
Jous Rankin,
House of Commons, London, S.W.L.
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