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** OUR REF.: L/M 293/74
IN
24 SEP 1974
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
18th September, 1974
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* YOUR Ref.:
A.C. Stuart, Esq., CPM,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1, England.
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The Colonial Secretary has asked me to reply
to your letter to him of 27th August.
This dispute arose on 15th August, causing a
slight stir in Hong Kong mainly because
(a) the China Mail was such an old
established newspaper
(b)
(c)
it had stopped publication so suddenly and
the Hong Kong Journalists
Association (HKJA) appeared to be using it as a means of drumming up new members.
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In view of the overseas connections of some of the journalists, the High Commissioner in Canberra and the Hong Kong Commissioner in London were sent a report of the dispute, in case its interest was whipped up by journalists overseas.
Publications (Holdings) Ltd. and the H.K.T.V.B. are the majority shareholders of the China Mail which had lost about HK$5 million in the 20months before the paper closed down. The Company had already offered to pay $350,000 to the sixty staff members but, supported by the HKJA, the latter held out for about another $400,000.
The Company originally agreed to pay salaries up to the end of August, one month's pay in lieu of notice a proportion of the annual bonus (two thirds of a month's pay), determined by length of service, pay for leave due but untaken and one month's salary for every completed year of service (pro rata for shorter periods), up to a maximum of 6 month's pay. The Union sought additional severance pay of from 3 months' salary for those with less than 6 months' service up to 6 months' salary for those with not less than one and a half years' service. This was resisted by the employers and there was some little delay because the main Directors were overseas when the paper folded up. This aggravated the dispute
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