LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GENEVA LABOUR CONFERENCE. POSITION OF AGRICULTURE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received November 14, 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, November 13. The Labour Conference finally adopted the draft international convention, guaranteeing farm workers the same rights of association combination as other industrials. The Australian employers and Government delegates voted against it, and all Imperial delegates voted in the affirmative. A convention extending to agricultural workers the benefits 'of the employers’ liability laws and a recommendation to the governments to extend the benefits of sickness, invalidity and old age insurance to farm workers were adopted.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14801, 15 November 1921, Page 5
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