Hongkong, July 10.
The Chinese and unofficial members of the Legislative Council are strongly in favour of the Bill prohibiting illegal strikes.
Hon. Sir Shouson Chow said in parts:—"We consider this Bill time. ly and necessary and we therefore: support it whole-heartedly. If and when it becomes law, it should go long way towards preventing recurring strikes, and strikes which specially aim at the economic life fof the Colony, such as those we experienced in 1922 and 1925 and from the effects of which we still are sutoring, The proposed measure is not class legislation, because affects employers as well as ployees, nor is it in any way racial discrimination, for it concerns all, irrespective of race or creed. The! fact that many of the sections are {taken from the Bill now before Parliament proves conclusively that the Government has no intention of Chinese differently from Wf this Bill in any way savoured of class or racial distinction, we should have been the first to oppose it.
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