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be allowed to work longer hours ! ! ! (14) Other local strikes have occurred as a result of pay difforontials.betwoon local (i.o. Chinese) and expatriate (io Europonn, largely British) workers doing the same job. (og the last Cable and Wirelo strike).

NOTES

1. Hansard 6 November 1972 Col. 55

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3.

4.

The UNCTAD figuros are summarised in Bill Warren, 'Imperialism and Capitalist Industrialisation' in Now Loft Review, No.81 September October 1973 Page 8

'Industrial Relations in Hong Kong' by Joe England in Keith Hopkins ed.

Hong Kong the Industrial Colony, Page 234. This book and England's chaptor especially are the bost published studies available recently.

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The historical background is bost covered in Jean Cheneaux The Chinese Labour Move not 1919 to 1927, Stanford (1968) especially Chaptor XII.

5. Hopkins., Page 241

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Hansard 27 November 1972 Col. 17

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ibid 23 Novembor 1972 Col 481

Hopkins oit Pago 238

ibid

10. Rogistrar of Trade Unions, Annual Roport 1968-9 HK (1969) Pago 29

11.Hopkins. cit. p251

12. Association for Radical East Asian Studios, Hong Kong: Britain's last Colonial

Stronghold, Vol.2 No.1, London (1972) Page 70

13. Joo England, 'Labour Policy in Hong Kong' in Vonturo (The Fabian Society,

London) Vol.22 No.11, Docenber 1970 F.23

14. Association for Radical East Asian Studies, cit. Page 70