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clauses which would make it obligatory on

employers in essential services to post notices

advising labourers of their responsibilities.

provisions

There are no priorities of this sort in the

Hong Kong Bill. But this may be a difference

less of principle than of detail. In the cir-

cumstances of Hong Kong the adoption of special

notification procedures might have little point.

11.

It remains to examine the general criticism

of the Overseas Labour Adviser that the need to

establish consultative machinery has been dis-

regarded in the amending Bill. This is cer-

tainly true, as it is true that the Labour

Advisory Committee recommended a positive

approach to the problem. But there is force in

the argument of the Hong Kong Government that

trade union organisation has not advised in the

Colony to the stage where working conditions

can be effectively regulated by formal agree-

ments of the sort which the Committee recom-

mended should wherever possible safeguard the

public utility and Public Health Services

rather than penal provisions.

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