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• 2 MAR 1970
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Sir Murray MacLehose GBB KEMG-KEVO Governor and Commander in Chief,
Government House,
Hong Kong.
Dear Sir Murray,
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Pl.copy сори
21
to OLA.
27th February, 1978.
Yet agani Prof. Ti memory
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is different!
Sunce the clea is bening
dropped N.F.A. Thank you for your letter of the 11th, with the enclosed copy of John Stewart's a letter about the suggestion that I should visit Peking.
√x113.
Perhaps I should make three things xlear. First I did not at all Understand that idea as being that I should visit Peking to discuss the role of the FTU in Hong Kong, but merely as being that it would be useful for me to get an impression of Chinese official attitudes on labour matters – and indeed of communist Chinese attitudes in general - as a background to my own study. Secondly, the main point from my angle would be to meet people who are in a position to discuss current views on the roles of trade unions in general particularly since the FTU represents a form which was rendered obsolete by the Cultural Revolution in any case; and I do not know how far present views on the position of trade unions in China are likely to effect its future attitudes and policy. And thirdly, I made certainly no suggestions that either the FCO or the Hong Kong government should pay for the diversion; I would have been quite prepared to find the additional finance myself but had no wish to be here involved in a Cook's Tour, which though no doubt attractive is something for which I would have little time at the moment and would not be of any great relevance to the subject of my own study. However, in view of the timing difficulties now, the idea will clearly have to be dropped pro. tem.
pared!
As regards the progress of the study, I have now colledted the various pieces of specialist investigation by my collaboratios into some systematic form, and I hope in the near future to have a reorganised draft. There is however little point in my visiting Hong Kong until this is available - which depends as much an typing facilities etc. here (universities are somewhat stringently placed at the moment) as on the time that I can find myself for writing - so that this can be sent in advance and I can discuss it with relevant people in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, on present plans I have allocated the week beginning the 8th April for this purpose, and I hope that it will be possible tommake a new draft available by then. I would not put this as more than a hope, in view if the time lost in the transmission of our documentation from Hong Kong last year, and the consequent disruption of my allocated interval for writing-ip purposes, but will do my best to see that something is produced by then.
With very best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
H.A. Turner.
Burton Professor of Industrial Relations
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