INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
AIMS AND PURPOSES OF THE I.LO. " PHILADELPHIA CHARTER " DRAWN UP Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, PHILADELPHIA, May 3 A plenary session of the 1.L.0. is expected to approve the " Philadelphia Charter," embodying the aims and purposes of the 1.L.0. and outlining the 1.L.0.'s obligation to take steps to induce—first, full employment and higher standards x of living throughout the world; secondly, the employment of workers in occupations enabling the fullest measure of skill; thirdly, wage and hour policies giving the workers a just share of the proceeds of industry and a minimum living wage; fourthly, recognition of collective bargaining and collaboration between workers and employers in social and economic measures.
Overriding Sir Frederick Leggett'a opposition, a special- sub-committee voted to submit to the conference measures for the protection of repatriated labourers seized by the Germans and transferred to Germany.
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Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 7
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