I.L.O. On Threshold Of New Era In Activity In Asia

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 5

1.L.0. On Threshold Of New Era In Activity In Asia

(10 a.m.) COLOMBO, Jan. 16. Delegates including 150 representatives from Britain. France and Australia. attended the opening of the Asian regional conference of the International Labour Organisation, whose Mp f discussion will be on the economic development of Asia.

Japan and the United States are re presented bv observers.

The British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations. Mr P J. Noe] Baker, ’-d-ed Britain’s all-out assistance to the International Labour Organisation in its efforts to improve the lot of Asian

workers. Mr. Noel Baker, who conveyed greetings from the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. to the conference. said that economic expansion by joint action by East and West would dominate the future of Asia for years to come. He said that the 1.L.0. stood on the threshold of a new era of its work in Asia.

fee) sure that soon a great enterprise will be under wav in Asia, for dams and wells, bulldozers, industrial plants, railways and trucks have become the armourv of freedom in our present age,” he declared. “If the British Government can help in training workers or experts, it will do so to the limit of its power.”