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DRAFT LETTER
To:-
HE Sir Murray MacLehose
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WHO
FROM
Sir D Watson
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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Governor
HONG KONG
HONG KONG:
KCMG KCVO MBE
Department
REPRESENTATIONS BY THE NATIONAL
EXECUTIVE OF THE LABOUR PARTY
1. The Secretary of State held a departmental meeting on 21 July to consider the representations about Hong Kong made to him by the International Committee of the NEC on 23 April. Among those present were Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Mr Rowlands, Tom McNally, Laurence O'Keeffe, Bill Bentley and myself.
2.
You will have seen from the record of the
meeting on 23 April sent to you that the NBC raiud four questions:
(a) elections to the Legislative Council;
5/31 (b) progress towards the implementation of
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ILO Conventions in Hong Kong:
(c) the situation of the trade unions and
labour relations generally; and
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3.
the possibility of simplifying the Hong
Kong Trade Union Ordinance and subsidiary legislation.
The Secretary of State accepted that the
introduction of the MACS and the Limited Electoral
System introduced for the Urban Council
represented a safe and cautious approach to
constitutional development, bearing in mind the attitude of China and the deep divisions of
political allegiance existing within the Colony.
He also accepted Lord Goronwy-Roberts' point that.
while some further progress along these lines may be possible (eg by granting further limited powere
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to the Limited Council), there was virtually no
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