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Mr Quantrill

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STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES, AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

1. Your note on Folio (19).

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I think we must regard this correspondence as closed. The major decision on the composition of the Commission that it should not include civil servants has been made and the facts on the lack of suitable Trade Union members outside the civil service speak for themselves.

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Apart from all the arguments the Chief Secretary has presented against a Trade Unionist from the United Kingdom, there is the fact that the Commission only meets once a week on Friday mornings which would hardly keep the individual fully employed!

4. I have discussed this with Mr Hurst who is disappointed and would like to see a retired civil servant from the Labour Lepartment, experienced in negotiating, on the Commission. But this would, I think, be in practice the same as having a civil servant and open that door which the administration want to keep shut.

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P J Williamson

Let us now wait and see how the Commission

agree. works out in practice.

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