INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

colonies, represented SPEECHES BROADCAST FROM e BRITAIN n (Kec. 11.10 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 28. '‘i .ewer than 33 countries were repre-jj.-ented when the International Labour i Conference opened at New York yeslei day. The United States Secretary of Labour. Mrs Perkins, was elected chairman of Ihe conference on the proposal ol Mr Ralph Asshetoifc who was 1 ,i e of the British Government representatives. i The other delegate. Sir Frederick " 1 Leggett, chief adviser to the British | Government on industrial relations, ; y i to!d the American Press in an inter- ’’ ! '.mw that the British task in wartime wax to know how to cut down hours .mu not to increase them. During the day speeches were broadi cast from Britain to the United States ~j by the American Ambassador, Mr J. j Wmani, and workers of the eight Allied r countries in British employment. One - of tho workers said that seven differI cut nationalities were working with his r firm, and he praised their efficiency and the British Trade Unions which had ~ | taught them British methods. * Mr Winant drew a contrast between * tlm forced labour that Hiller had im- ; j post d < at one mbei of 1