the Secretariat's priority lists. Now that
Goodwin has joined you the Minister of State
hopes that it will be possible to bring forward
more quickly some of the desirable measures
lower down in the order on which progress
through
has been delayed for fack of expert attention.
presume on existing staff,
AÐ A meane of keeping the departmentar
programme and priorities under frequent
review, we wonder whether you have given any
thought to the usefulness of establishing a
Labour Policy Committee as recommended in
paragraph 27 of George Foggon's report of
17 November (forwarded under cover of our Despatch He 308 24" November
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We agree with the Commissioner of Labour
that legislation on joint consultation and
compulsory conciliation (items (x) and (xii)
in the Executive Council paper) needs to be
proceeded with slowly. You may recall that
George Foggon took the same view in paragraph
16 of his report and envisaged a period in
which such procedures were introduced on a
voluntary basis before being made compulsory
and applied generally by legislation.
Although we lost the services of Hudsen in
this field, there are two other excellent
candidates in the offing and I very much hope
that we will find it possible to attract one
of them to Hong Kong.
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