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Secondly, there is an urgent need for machinery to determine recognition, the character of any organisation seeking to be a bargaining agent then to lay an obligation upon an employer to bargain in good faith. But, as a step forward a declaration by the Governor that it was desirable for there to be a free and democratic collective bargaining to negotiate the kind of contract which adequately represents the staffs concerned, would be highly desirable.

You said you would be good enough to consider any propositions we wished to make to you and here they are in outline. If you care for any more details we are, of course at your disposal.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Anthony Royle, M.P., (Parly Under-Sec. of State

for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, S.W.1.

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