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OCCUPATION, WAGES AND LABOUR ORGANIZATION

advice and help. Every union treasurer was seen and advised on a simple method of accounting, suitable for the unions, and model account forms were printed and distributed to all unions. The model trade union rules of the department were revised in the light of experience and given to all new applicants for registration as a guide. The trade union course at Hong Kong Univer- sity last year was followed by meetings with students of that course and others with a view to starting trade union education in the vernacular, and it is hoped that a planned course may be organized early next year. Several good trade union films were received during the year, and these were shown regularly in the department to trade union officials and members.

The Asian Trade Union College, recently estab- lished in Calcutta by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, opened its first course in November. The Hong Kong Trades Union Council selected its English Secretary and an executive com- mittee member to attend.

Several important trade union visitors came through the Colony during the year and made themselves ac- quainted with local trade union and industrial problems. Among these were Dr. V. S. Mathur, the I. C. F. T.U. Director of Education for Asia, Mr. F. Gmür, Secretary of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, and Mr. T. C. Winter, Federal Secretary of the Muni- cipal Employees' Union of Australia. Mr. Richard Deverall of the American Federation of Labour and Mr. Tom Colismo of the American Congress for Industrial Organization each spent a few days in the Colony and had talks with the Trades Union Council.

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