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ZCZC LTX790 131224 DXA774 YY TAX

YeX9.1 10-1217 YHE566

: PROHONGAID LONDON THREE:

× Industrialist

GIS 25/73 (ADD)

Trade Unions

Unio:sol-

IN REPORT HEADED MINIMUM WAGE IMPRACTICAL. SCMP. SAID TWO LEGCO MEMBERS, JAMES MUY AND LEUNG TAT-SHING? FEJECTED CALL FOR MIVIVUM YAGE. MU SAID HE FEELS SOMEONE HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY TRYING TO HAVE HONCHONG ADOPT SYSTEMS AND MEASURES BEING UNDERTAKEN IN CRITAIN. THE INTERIV REPORT OF PROF. TURNER APPEARS TO SE LATEST OF SUCH MOVES. +PERSONALLY, I FEEL THE FITER AS NO IDEA AT ALL OF HOW HONGKONG'S ECONOMY JAYS. LEUNG SAID HONGYONG TRADE UNION COUNCIL, TO HICH HIS UNION IS AN AFFILIATE MEMBER, DISCUSSED PROS AND CONS OF LEGISLATING FOR MINIMUM WAGE ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO. +OUR CONCLUSION WAS - AND STILL IS THAT IT is

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PRACTICAL HERE, WE FELT THAT MANY EMPLOYERS MIGHT EXPLOIT THE PRIMARY AIN OF THE SCHENE TO GUARANTEE ORVERS A VIVIKUM WAGE

AND USE IT AS A GU-FANTEE TO GET CHEAP LAROUR

LAFOUR WITH COVERNMENT'S PLESSINGS. + HE DESCRIBED PROF. THEVES AS ANOTHER MAN MU INTENDS TO INJECT BRITISH OF EUROPEAN PRACTICES INTO HONG" ONG+. STAR ALSO CARRIED LEADER ON SUBJECT. HEAD MINIMUM APCE +, LEADER IS AS FULLJS:

THE BRITISH SOVETIMES SEEM TO THE PEOPLE OF HONGKONG INTENT UPON DESTROYING JUS ECONOMY SY TRYING TO RISE THE S. t

CONCEPTS OF HOW TO DO THINGS THAT HAVE GOT THEM INTO SO MUCH TROUBLE THENSELVES.

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