LABOUR CONFERENCE
25TH GENEVA SESSION TWO NOMINEES ANNOUNCED WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS It was announced last night by the Minister of Labour and Mines, the Hon. P. C. Webb, that Mr. J. Roberts, of Christchurch, secretary of the Clothing Trades Federation of Workers, and Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, secretary of the Wellington Employers' Association, have been nominated representatives to the 25th session of the International Labour Conference, which opens at Geneva on June 8. Both were nominated by substantial majorities, Mr. Webb stated. If the two nominees mentioned are approved by the Government, they will go to Geneva with the Government delegates, whoso names have not yet been announced.
The conference agenda this year covers the following questions: Technical and vocational education and apprenticeship; regulation of contracts of employment of indigenous workers; recruiting place and conditions of labour, equality of treatment of migrant workers; regulation of hours of work and rest periods of professional drivers, and their assistants, of vehicles engaged in road transport; generalisation of the limitation of hours of work in industry, commerce and offices; reduction of hours of work in coal mines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 14
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