London, June 11.
ALTHOUGH the hostilities between China and Japan had hit trade in Shanghai badly, they had been of benefit to Hongkong and Malaya, stated a report on the Colonial Empire, issued for the Colonial Office after request made in a recent debate on [Colonial Estimates. The report, which was the first in ten years, stated that public revenues and trade and commerce in both territories showed marked improvement in 1937, compared with the previous year, The report, revealed Whitehall's concern that proper steps should be taken to meet changing requirements and modern needs in the Colonies, This concern was made obvious in a circular letter sent by-Lord Harlech, the then Secretary of State for the [Colonies (Mr. William Ormsby-Gore) to all the Colonial Governors last August, 'The response on the part of the Governors appeared to have been, Air Defence Loan lethargic, and one of the mai troubles seemed to have been the atti-London, June 9, tude of most of the Governors to-Declaring that civilized' people are wards the necessity for overhauling "horrified by the bestial bombing. of existing legislation dealing with unarmed eivilfans at Canton," the labour conditions.
"Dally Herald," the Labour organ, 'Though it was stated that eonsiderin, a leader today, says that diploable progress had been made in many' [matic protests alone are useless Colonial Dependencies in improving The men ahd women of Great labour conditions, it was realized that it would now be necessary for many Coldnial legislatures to. "review their existing enactments order to bring their labour codes to levels now held to be consonant with modern conditions and outlook."
Britain, i, suggests, should demand that the British Government show Jeondemnation of Japan by a guar Janteed loan to China, Such 'a loan, contends, would provide the Chi reso with funds to buy the necessary material to defend their cities against Trinidad Conditions Referring to Trinidad, it was stated:
"itis clear that labour organization:
some of the Colonies is behind the landards reached in industrial countries, and that where large bodies of wage labour is employed by mining companies, ox on plantations, it is en= cumbent on the Government to ensure, in the interests of both capital and Labour, that machinery exists for Constitutional settlements of dis-ules regarding the rates of wages end conditions of labour."
The report stated that steps were now being taken by many Colonies to create the machinery of such special labour departments or inspectorates calculated to obviate the possibility of outbursts of labour trouble, due to the lack of a proper ventilation of grievances and proper conciliation' machinery—Reuter.
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