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SAVING DESPATCH
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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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From
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GOVERNOR
Secret.
Telephone No. & Ext.
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HONG KONG
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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Department
Circ. Desp.
No.629/60 of 13.6.60 Circ. Desp.
CONFIDENTIAL
Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance
Chapter 61
I refer to your saving despatch No. CR 29/3231/
49 of 28 November 1968 (to which I regret no
earlier reply has been sent) on the subject of
the proposed amendments to the Illegal Strikes and
Lock-outs Ordinance Chapter 61. I welcome the
decision of your Government to seek to improve
No. 505/61 of 17.5.61the effectiveness of your legislation to protect
the public interest from strikes and lock-outs in
essential services; but I remain doubtful as to
the manner in which it is proposed this should be
achieved.
2.
These doubts are heightened by the
consideration that the amendments, proposed in
which was
your saving despatch, seem to be hardly consistent
with the second part of the statement made by the
Commissioner of Labour in Legislative Council on
and
20 December 1967, to which you refer in
paragraph 2 of your saving despatch, viz. that
the permanent legislation which your Government
have in mind to replace the present Ordinance,
would, while protecting the public interest from
strikes and lock-outs of a coercive nature in
essential services, at the same time protect the
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