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P B Williams Esq
Commissioner for Labour and Mines
Labour Department
Hong Kong
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2 February 1978
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE 1978
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1. As you will be aware, the Constitution of the ILO contains a 3/2 provision whereby the governments of member states may appoint representa- tives of their dependent territories to act as Advisers to their delegation to the annual International Labour Conference. Ian Price attended most Conferences in recent years, but I understand that you were unable to go in 1977 because of the timing of the hand-over. 2. We were planning to enquire in the spring whether your successor wished to attend this year's Conference, which will take place in Geneva from 7 to 28 June. I am, however, now writing rather earlier as the suggestion has been made here that you might wish to consider the possibility of widening the scope of Hong Kong's representation by the attachment of representatives of employers' organisations and trade unions to the employer and worker sections of the UK delegation. is a partial precedent for this in the case of the 62nd (Maritime) Session in 1976, when a representative of the Hong Kong Shipowners' Association was attached to the British employers' delegation at the invitation of the UK Shipping Federation, but so far as we are aware no employers' or workers' representative has attended ordinary sessions of the Conference. The Department of Employment here believe that, they would find this an instructive and useful experience, and the Department's suggestion is in line with our policy of encouraging the dependent territories as far as possible to familiarise themselves with the work of the ILO at first hand. There is also the benefit to be gained from the contact which the Conference affords with one's counterparts from other countries.
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3. The relevant section of the ILO Constitution (Article 3) requires that member States "undertake to nominate non-Government delegates and advisers in agreement with the industrial organisations which are most representative of employers and workpeople, as the case may be, in their respective countries". In 1976, for the Maritime Session, it was suggested to the Hong Kong Seamen's Union that they should contact the British seafarers' union if they wished to have a representative
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