-Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
2 4 MAY 1976
Thank you for your letter of 7 May about Hong Kong.
It has always been our intention that the T.U.C. should be
closely associated with Professor Turner's study of labour
relations in the Colony. Jim Callaghan always had this in mind
Arrangements are now well advanced for Professor
and so do I.
Turner to go out to Hong Kong next month to put the study in hand.
Thereafter he and his two research workers will visit the Colony for
extended periods over the next few months with a view to producing
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a report by the end of the year, copies of which will certainly be
sent to you (and the C.B.I.) so that we can jointly consider what
next should be done.
Professor Turner has agreed that, if the
study proves more time-consuming than he at present envisages, he
will produce an interim report by then. If this proves to be the
case, the International Committee will again have an opportunity
to consider the matter and to set out its views on the directions
L. Murray Esq., 0.B.E.,
/the
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