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W. L. J. WALLACE
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Government House, Đảng ông.
8th January, 1949.
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Dear
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Sidebotham,
Many thanks for your letter No. 54145/1/48 of the 16th October,
1948, about the Port Committee. On receipt of the Secretary of State's
despatch No. 325, I consulted the Port Committee about the addition to their
numbers of an officer from the Labour Department. Their reaction was that
any representation of labour is unnecessary since no question affecting
labour had so far come before the Committee, but that if it was considered
essential that labour should be represented, they would prefer the Commissioner
of Labour to be appointed rather than one of his officers.
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It occurs to me that one reason why matters affecting labour have
not so far been considered by the Committee has been the absence of any
representative of labour among the members. But there is some force in
the Committee's preference for the Commissioner of Labour in person: other
official members are all heads of Departments, and the Chamber of Commerce
has made a practice of nominating the heads of member shipping firms. I
have therefore appointed the Commissioner of Labour to be an ex officio
member from the 1st of January, 1949.
3.
As regards the second point which you raised, I consider that
both sea-going and stevedore and other water-front labour are intimately
concerned with the working of the port, and when the time comes for the
direct representation of labour on the Committee I will bear in mind the
need to find nominees acceptable to them all.
Yours ever,
Pag
C
J. B. Sidebotham, Esq., C.M.G.,
Colonial Office,
LONDON.
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1949 54145/1
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