GENEVA LABOUR TALKS

Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 11

GENEVA LABOUR TALKS

BRITISH ATTITUDE DEFINED FORTY-HOUR WEEK MBT FAVBWIED (British Official Wireless:) Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyrigkl RUGBY, June 23 (Received June 24, at noon.) The Minister of Labour defended the Government’s record in connection with the League’s International Labour organisation against the Labour Party’* attack in the House of Commons. Mr Brown said the British Government could not be accused of not being sympathetic with the work of the International Labour Office. It had given it consistent support. The number of conventions ratified by Britain was the highest, with the exception of Spain, of any European country. Mr Brown deprecated confusion of the question of general support for the International Labour organisation and the question of particular sunnort of the 40-hour week proposal. He said he could not go to Geneva and pretend that the British Government agreed ta the 40-hour week policy, which wai badly founded and which was incomplete in itself and contained proposal* which no joint council in any industrj in the United Kingdom would accept.