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Item 4: South Africa

African Trade Unions and

Industrial Relations Practices

5. I need not, I think, remind members of the

Report of the House of Commons Select Committee and the

guidance subsequently issued in 1974 by Mr Peter Shore,

when Secretary for Trade, to companies with subsidiaries

in South Africa. Since 1974 public interest in the

UK has shifted to some extent from the wages paid to

Black employees to encouraging the development and

recognition of Black trade unions. As the covering

paper points out, this was a point included in the

Department of Trade's guidelines and I know that the

TUC is involved in assisting two institutions in

South Africa - the Urban Training Project in Johannesburg

and the Institute for Industrial Education in Durban

in training Black trade union officials. I will

therefore ask the TUC to open our discussion on this

item.

[ Mr Denison-Edson of Central and Southern Africa

Department will attend for this item.

The Department of Trade retains departmental

responsibility for matters arising from the TISC

Report and subsequent White Paper eg the

publication by British companies of reports on

/their

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