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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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