TNAG-0648-FCO40-796-Study-of-labour-relations-in-Hong-Kong-by-Professor-H-A-Turn-1977 — Page 117

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3. This should be enough to enable Turner to complete the study on the lines set out in the conclusions to his report, and I hope that his final report will be enough to answer criticisms in the UK about the labour movement in Hong Kong. However, at their meeting on 29 April the OICC may ask for further consideration of matters dealt with somewhat inconclusively in the report. You will have seen my telegram No

In addition we have 272: heard that the TUC will almost certainly suggest that Turner looks into the possibility of a greater institutional role for the unions in the formation of policy in social welfare and social security. We believe that this has been in the minds of the TUC for some time.

4. I am sorry to have to put so much of the responsibility and irritating detail for this completion onto the shoulders of your people. However, to try and administer Turner (in Sydney and Hong Kong) from here would be an impossible task. If we tried it we would get into the same sort of mess as we experienced in 1976.

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