INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20158, 10 February 1931, Page 14

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

(r*oa oca ow® B| A review on the International Labour the League of KtUat only were important dttdtiim the annual conference o* : "forced labour" ul salaried employees (dQebb^yXfiefl tive action to many mi3n«nm hitherto unaffected Jg£3HKjfl| labour legislation), but tion of the international mh3hS9| , hours of work of tMI " studied is detail and to world settlement Tfe]j|jpjjßkH Labour Office was also 'IgSjEMH make an exhaustive eap^EHBoH First of all, tions of International tions were registered making a total of 419. concerning the equality rf txanSisS national and foreign gards accident compenaatiea l been ratified by 27 States; tion concerning varioas employment, by 24 States; «MfclK9( convention fixing at mum age of young pemaa trimmers and stokem on hMawBQH The fourteenth aeaaioaaf national Labour C«illuiMii-aBB| in Geneva in June under 4C|hHB|B of M. Ernest Mahaim, faiaaMflHH Minister for Labour. XkqgwßHHl of 51 States were present, tMMBB total yet reached. New presented for the first tUpBH Brazil, although no longer the League of Nations, waaiMpHHH by a complete dclegatiwi^ : were sent by Turkey latter for the first time. '.A.'ImHHw vention was adopted cm by the terms of which a try undertakes to "snpprt« forced or compulsory laktir~u||Hß forms within' the - period." A draft adopted limiting to 4S'')nU9HHHB. and' eight horns per employees in commerce aai4flMHfl|| hours being defined- as ing which the persons the disposal of the ferenee also diseusaed h m|H the possibility of a& meat on hours of work No draft convention was adflmgHß it was decided to tiwn .JlHfljjHH again at the 1931 Bessio*. The governing body «C tional Labour Office met ;ra|HHH| twice in. Geneva, otaea at the invitation of Ihft ernment, to Mbbnte tkl' versary of its first meeting, Brussels - in October, at of the Belgian Government JmBHH casion of the celebration ft ary of the governing body took tho jgrojßHß decision not to revise the >t&ugHs9R - Hours Convention, adopted Brussels it was, decide® tjatiHWMHBB should undertake aik quiry into the various wuo ployment. At this sieetiag: 4MjBH| Argentine Bepublie recanted tIMpnHH which it was entitled on the |MH| body, 9f aa absence eomutrief conference on silicosis, ttis first conference eonveniwl ouiaie»l!awH| under the auspices of ®p at tutions of the League. A mai&MMK valuable resolutions wew #dopt#6.jffl#U conclusion of its ■wtiajs. .lllllgi Aiwmig the committees wu«ygnlH 1930 were th»t:«s Airfid* <MWi studies the reports j»boiti»eJWHM| ernments on. the steps tk#y M(W|MhR; to give effeet to eonventkuss them; the migration «OBHBItUg#MK experts of the tee on industrial Impene; j;ee of experts on labour MMHI r European > inteniatwinal committee on fiosfe of statistics; the committee charges; and tho mittec on accident The Mixed Advisory .'iMliiiilil Committee, wlueh -i*dafcaJgHß|H tives both -of the Organisation, and the stitnte of Agriculture at the end of the year aadigMlM special difficulties ture is at present snffgnng. g On "all the problems uetence the office has velop its work ofmentation. The ports on each of tM conference and thfc number of special have not'' been allowed ia fflnHH interfere with the .regnWT 3SMI of the weekly Information," and the tpMMW national labour Bexwv. / <33H|Mb