TNAG-0648-FCO40-796-Study-of-labour-relations-in-Hong-Kong-by-Professor-H-A-Turn-1977 — Page 52

-Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

2 4 MAY 1976

Thank you for your letter of 7 May about Hong Kong.

It has always been our intention that the T.U.C. should be

closely associated with Professor Turner's study of labour

relations in the Colony. Jim Callaghan always had this in mind

Arrangements are now well advanced for Professor

and so do I.

Turner to go out to Hong Kong next month to put the study in hand.

Thereafter he and his two research workers will visit the Colony for

extended periods over the next few months with a view to producing

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a report by the end of the year, copies of which will certainly be

sent to you (and the C.B.I.) so that we can jointly consider what

next should be done.

Professor Turner has agreed that, if the

study proves more time-consuming than he at present envisages, he

will produce an interim report by then. If this proves to be the

case, the International Committee will again have an opportunity

to consider the matter and to set out its views on the directions

L. Murray Esq., 0.B.E.,

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