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Mr. ANDREW WONG (in Contanese) : Sir, I think I am the

only Councillor who has much

Unions (Amendment) Bill 1988.

reservations on the Trade

Originally I could have

raised a number of amendments to amend the

the Bill, but I

would have to make too many amendments. If all these

are

they

amendments will be adopted, then will be going against the

spirit of the amendment Bill. And it seems to me that if

we would

would like to

like to amend the provisions of the Bill, and

the Committen St I may

I may not stand the chance to win.

air Nevertheless, I will still like to speak-out my views

against the Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill 1988 SO that

for future review, especially when the these views will be recorded I will be remembered when problem of politicisation of trade union becomes more and. we talk about sensitive issue dimilar to this one.

more serious.

when

for

sir, on the 8 June 1988, the Secretary

Education and Manpower moved the Second Reading of the

t Bill

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stated clearly the purpose of the

Bill. The problem arose from 1985 when

election

the Legislative Council.

we first have had

Among the 24

functional constituencies, we have two coming from the

to adopt the electoral format labour constituency and we decided that we should have Lone

vote per one union and so trade unions would have to nominate of decide on the candidates that they would like to support. that they would like to support.

which

tol

But the seckien oncerning the section 34 the Ordinance

stated that already said the funds of a registered trade union are not

allowed to be applied either directly or indirectly for

or

of

transferred to any person for political purpose, but the

any political purpose but it was stated that private

received by candidates by the Lepistatul Comical election donation would not be restricted, and the trade unions

Later,

Governan