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offices in the Urban Council's new Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Wanchai, which
is to be opened next month.
17.
United Front work among staff of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong also continues. A senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education was
invited to present prizes at the Pui Kiu Middle School,' and a former pro Vice
Chancellor, CHENG Tung-choi, officiated at the Hon Wa Middle School's
graduation ceremony. Both schools are communist controlled.
LABOUR AFFAIRS
18.
Although the industrial action by the Public Health Inspectors
(para 18, June 1980 Report) came to an abrupt end, the three major civil
servants conglomerate unions (the Civil Servants General Union, the Chinese
Civil Servants Association, and the Liaison Office of Public Servants Unions)
voiced their support by condemning the suspension of the Inspectors involved and agreed to work together for the establishment of an independent arbitration
body as an alternative to the Standing Commission.
19.
The Union of Post Office Employees has threatened industrial action
at the end of the year over certain accelerated promotions and is also
trying to collect funds for legal action against the Government for recovery
of alleged arrears of subsistence allowance. Nurses' Unions have expressed
dissatisfaction over recent promotions and a new salary framework.
20.
Communist trade unions maintain their policy of rational and moderate
behaviour. They are conducting a restrained campaign for industrial safety,
maternity leave and workmen's compensation, which is consistent with their
present concentration on promoting workers' rights and benefits.
Social Pressure Groups
21.
Students and pressure groups have been relatively inactive in public.
They have been devoting much of their time and energy to studying the various
proposals in two recent Government Green Papers dealing with district
administration and education and a Bill to amend the Public Order Ordinance.
The Hong Kong Observers, the articulate group consisting of mainly western
educated young Chinese from well-to-do families, have resumed their periodic
and shrewdly written articles on Hong Kong affairs in the South China Morning
Post.
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