CONENTIAL
(iii)
Because of these severe limitations on the right to strike in the essential services, particularly the
power of prohibition in Section 3, there is a need to
provide specific machinery for the settlement of genuine industrial disputes and grievances in those services.
2 December, 1969
b.5. Carter
(W. S. Carter)
Hong Kong Department
I agree with Mr. Carter that it would be best to pursue both Section 3 and Section 5. There is, as he says, some
deterrent value in the Section 3 provisions which I would be reluctant to see jettisoned just yet. I am sure that we do not wish without very good reason to take any legislative action which could encourage agitators to believe that Government will be less firm than in the past in face of political agitation dressed up in industrial guise.
h.
Kui triforo
(K.M. Wilera)
4 December, 1969.
I think that you will with
Sir L. Maram tree these important pp.