LABOUR CONGRESS
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING IN LONDON IN MAY
PROBLEMS TO BE DEALT WITH
(Rec. January 21, 8.45 p.m.) London, January 21. Details of the coming World Labour Congress on migration are disclosed by the “Daily Herald’s” Paris correspondent. It appears that the organisation of the congress, which will open in London on May 18, was discussed yesterday by a joint committee consisting of Messrs. Merens, Jouhaux and Brown, on behalf of Labour and the Socialist International, and Mr. Cramp and M. Debrouckere, on behalf of the International Federation of Trade Unions. It was decided to issue invitations to affiliated national Labour organisations, also to Labour movements in other countries interested in the problem, such as Japan, China, India, and the United States and Mexico.
The joint committee will submit a long report on the importance and perils arising out of the migration of the yellow races in the Far East, and dealing with the economic as well as the racial aspect. The report will also deal with European migration problems, as instanced by the fact that. Ihe foreign population in France is estimated at present to be at least two millions, of -whom half are said to be Italian.
Mr. Cramp went to London last night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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