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LETTER FROM
Registry HWB.18/63 DRAFT MINISTER OF STATE
No.
To:-
Ernest Thornton Esq.,
Top Secret. Secret. Confidential. Restricted. X Unclassified. X
Type 1 +
From
M.P.,
Telephone No. & Ext.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Department
(117)
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On 20 September you wrote to George Thomas about
in Houghing
had worked
China Mail" report that a young girl/?
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 5 weeks at the end
of 1966; she says that she worked from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. 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.
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