TNAG-0231-FCO40-267-Conditions-of-employment-of-labour-force-in-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 18

Registry

No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

CONFIDENT IAL

DRAFT

LETTER

To:-

D.R. Holmen eli

Type 1 +

Sir H. Norman Walker, KCMG, OBE,

From

E. 0. Laird

Telephone No. & Ext.

Colonial Secretariat,

HONG KONG.

In Confidence

Department

Hong Kong

Labour Questions

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and detailed reply to my letter to you of 6 May and

I much regret that I am only now able to get down to

answering it.

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Since he wrote I have of course had my first

visit to Hong Kong and I do not propose therefore to

inflict a further long letter on you. I think the

best thing I can do is to follow the headings used by

Holmes and to make my comments as short as possible.

Labour conditions

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The flurry here over night-work for women which

gave us so much to do shortly after I joined the

Department seems to have died down. It may of

of course come up again when Parliament reassembles,

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but when Mr. Gibson say Mr. Royle shortly before the

latter left on his tour of the Far East he did not

mention the matter.

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Helmes asked whether we assessed the Trade

Unionists' views as stemming from ignorance of the

economic realities in Hong Kong or from self-interest.

It is of course difficult to generalise in a matter

of this kind but my view, for what it is worth, is

that Mr. Gibson, at any rate, is an idealist.

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this subject

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