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October, 1967.
On 20 September you wrote to George Thomas about
a China Mail report that a young girl in Hong Kong had worked very long hours for very little money.
As you will now know from George Thomson's written reply to your Parliamentary Question on the same subject the girl, Miss So, was not known by management or fellow workers when an Inspector visited the factory. The other girl named in the article, Miss Yeung Lai-Yin, was traced however, She was employed in the factory only for five weeks at the end of 1966; she says that she worked from 9 am to 6 pm with an hour's break for lunch and a rest day every Sunday. She denied also that young people or women worked hours in excess of those permitted by law, and in this is supported by the fact that the factory was visited by Labour Inspectors on 27 November 1966 who reported nothing exceptional,
From all this one must conclude that the accusations against the factory were bogus, though doubtless printed by the China Mail in good faith.
ERNEST THORNTON, ESQ., MP.
(SHEPHERD)
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