LABOUR CONFERENCE.
NO BAKING BY NIGHT. OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES. THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS. iD.r Cable—Frees Association.— Copyright.) (Received 2.30 p.m.; GENEVA, June S. The International Labour Couference has adopted the convention prohibiting making bread, pastry, and flour confectionery generally by all persons including proprietors as well as workers during the night term, '"night' , signifying seven consecutive hours, the beginning and end of which shall be fixed by a competent, authority in each country after consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations, and the period shall include an interval between eleven o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning, except when climate or season required the interval to be between ten at night and four in the morning. The convention cornea into force January 1, 1027. The conference also adopted a convention classing poisoning by lead, poisoning by mercury and anthrax as occupational diseases, and provides that compensation is payable to workmen incapacitated or whose deat-h is caused from such diseases, such payment to be in accordance with the principles of national legislation relating to compensation for industrial accidents.— (A. and NX Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 7
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