LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 8

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH A summary of the work of the International Labour Office of the League of Nations was given at the fortnightly luncheon of the Auckland branch yesterday, by Mr. L. A. Mander, Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., presided. Mr. Madder prefaced his remarks by saying that the union in Auckland appeared to have reached a critical stage. Except for the luncheons, t was engaged in no activity, and it appeared to him that the organisation should divide into small groups, cacn to study some particular problem. At. present there was more quantity than quality. He said the International Labour Office was doing an immense amo of work in co-ordinating informauo from all over the world. The •ta t * ' tical bureau was doing a remark;a work, the value of which would D " come increasingly evident. Mr. Ma • der traced the work of success - labour conventions in dealing such subjects as the age of empi > ment of children, conditions of m a employment, agricultural pro Die and factory inspection. The wor the office as a whole had given a cided impetus to trade unionism the East, and it had helped ' a countries in the technical side o dustry. pf. Prior to Mr. Mander’s address. t Mildred Staley gave a concise acc» of the work of the League of - Union in the Old Land and in, . countries.