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4. Ron Bridge was dubious about doing this in a dispute in which the majority of those involved had already accepted the Government's offer. He thought that in such a case the dispute should be regarded as settled. But, in this country at least, a dispute could not be regarded as settled unless the Executive of the Union involved agreed to accept the employer's offer. And there does seen to us sone force in Mrs Cheung's contention that many of the girls have only accepted the new arrangement because there was a strong financial inducement for them to do so and not because they thought it was the just solution.
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5. I should be grateful for your comments. also be interested to know how things stand on the proposed new machinery for dealing with disputes in the Fublic Service. Somewhat surprisingly, nothing seems to have been said about this new scheme to Harry Hurst when he visited Hong Kong last month.
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W Quantrill
Hong Kong & General Department
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