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standard modern hotels - Airconditioning too cold as usual - beds
on the "firm" side. Told to be Early call put in for 6.45 a.m.
Wednesday 6th
ready at 8.00
at 5.30 a.m. in great luxury.
a.m. next day.
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Did not sleep that well. Woke up
Could not back to sleep. Had bubble bath
get knock on door as phones out of order.
Early call by Meet others in Coffee Shop for standard European Breakfast. expensive having changed some of my
Bought post card quite own HK dollars into Foreign Exchange Currency (FEC's).
Mr.
Wang and Mr Chiu ready at 8.00 a.m., but not all of us!! Went to Tiananmen Square. Very large and impressive. Large pictures of Ivin and Marx. dominates.
Mao still
we
were
Large
At
for
Lots of visitors from the rest of China.
Photo stalls for local tourists. arrived at the Chinese Workers Centre
met by Mr WANG Ju-yu Deputy Secretary General of Affairs of the All China WANG Ju-sheng Deputy Section (who
the CWCIE and on International
Unions and Mr
queues to see Mao's body. 9.00 a.m. we International Exchange where Secretary General of the Committee Federation of Trade Chief of the International Laison Department of the ACFIU also acted as interpreter). We with the usual U-shaped sitting layout.
were taken upstairs to a
We handed position paper giving details of the role of the AECS, its size, membership and role. The paper also stated that AECS the Sino-British Agreement and that many of our members wished to serve Hong Kong up to 1997 and beyond. following concerns :
We also set out the
room
over our
welcomed
(a)
security of employment
(b)
terms of employment (Agreement or P & P)
(c) whether officers currently on P & P terms could
extend such terms beyond 1997
(d) long term value of pensions, and ready
transferability of funds
whether promotion will continue to be on merit
(e)
(E)
the use of English in Hong Kong in general and in Government in particular
(g) legal position of Chinese spouses of non-Chinese
civil servants and their children
(h) Education for English speaking children after 1997
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