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HONG KONG : INDUSTRIAL ACTION AFFECTING DISPENSERS AND HEALTH INSPECTORS

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I minuted you yesterday on the subject of Hong Kong telegram No 771 and asked for advice as to my response should the repre- sentatives of the Hong Kong Civil Service General Union seek contact, probably through British trade unionists, with the FCO.

2. A further development has occurred in that I have received the attached letter from the Secretary to the TUC's International Committee. I should be grateful for your advice as to the reply to be given. It would seem that we could draw on Hong Kong's telegrams to give a factual outline of the dispute affecting the health inspectors but I am not certain as to what is being done to resolve it now that the inspectors have returned to work. Presumably it is up to the members of the Health Inspectorate to consider preparing the groundwork for a new submission to the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries. as suggested

by

Hong Kong telegram No 118 of 30 June. A reply to Hong Kong to FCO telegram No 625 of 30 July may also throw further light on the situation.

3. You will see from Mr Tsin's letter of 10 July attached that Mr Luk intends to visit Congress House towards the end of this month. Incidentally is the point made by Tsin in the penultimate paragraph of his letter correct that the Supreme Court in Hong Kong ruled out the use of Regulation 611 in the earlier case of 26 dispensers? If Mr Tsin has made any incorrect statements in his letter to the TUC we should try to put them right.

Reisterst

HR G Hurst

31 July 1980

Overseas Labour Adviser