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HONG KONG TRADE UNION AFFAIRS AND MR CLIVE JENKINS
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Wilford M: Crowson
1. Mr Jenkins wrote to Mr Royle on 8 March outlining his
proposals for improving industrial relations machinery in
Hong Kong. He had previously discussed the matter with
Mr Royle at a meeting on 20 February. An acknowledgement
was sent to Mr Jenkins and Mr Royle promised to write again
when we had received the views of the Hong Kong Government
on his proposals. These we now have in Mr Kidd's letter of
8 May.
2. Mr Foggon gave his preliminary comments on Mr Jenkins'
proposals. We conveyed the gist of them to Hong Kong.
Mr Foggon pointed out that, although he thought that Hong
Kong should be pressed to go ahead with certain improvements
which he had suggested in his report of December 1971, there
were obvious dangers in attempting to impose on Hong Kong
advanced legislation such as that envisaged by Mr Jenkins.
He expressed doubts whether Hong Kong would in any case
approve of Mr Jenkins' proposals for what was in effect
compulsory arbitration and recognition machinery.
Kong reply bears out Mr Foggon's views.
The Hong
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