INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 9

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

TWO NEW CONVENTIONS. BAKING AND COMPENSATION. A. and N.Z. ; GENEVA, June 9. The International Labour Conference adopted by 86 votes to 26 a convention to prohibit the making of bread, pastry and other confectionery in which flour is used, by proprietors as well as workers, during the night. The term "night" signifies seven consecutive hours, the beginning and end of which are to be fixed by a competent authority in each country, after consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations. The period is to include an interval between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. except when the climate or the season requires the interval to be between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. s The convention is to come into force on January 1, 1927. The conferea'.e also adopted a convention to class poisoning by lead or mercury, and anthrax as occupational diseases. It provides for compensation to bo paid to workmen who are incapacitated or whose death is caused by those diseases. The payment is to be in accordance with the principles of national legislation relating to compensation for industrial accidents.

BRITISH PRECAUTIONS. FOLLOWING UP RESEARCH. GENEVA. June L Mr. Albert Thomas, director of the International Labour Office, replying to statements made during the' International Labour Conference's debate on his report,, alluded to Mr. Ben Tillett's inquiry on behalf of the British Transport .Workers, as to what was being done to guard against infection from anthrax. " I can assure Mr. Tillett," he said, " that, m close collaboration with the League of Nations and experts, we have a firm intention of following up this work. It is reported that Britain intends to convene an inter-Imperial anthrax conference, and we will be only too glad to help in any way by supplying information we have collected."