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1924. NEW ZEALAND.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE. DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE DURING ITS FIFTH SESSION, 22nd TO 29th OCTOBER, 1923, RELATING TO FACTORY INSPECTION.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

Geneva, 27th December, 1923. The recommendation concerning the general principles for the organization of systems of inspection to secure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the workers here reprinted was adopted on the 29th October, 1923, by the International Labour Conference at its Fifth Session, Geneva, 22nd to 29th October, 1923. The text of the recommendation as here presented is a true copy of the text authenticated by the signatures of the President of the International Labour Conference and of the Director of the International Labour Office, and deposited with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations. Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations. RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE ORGAN. IZATION OF SYSTEMS OF INSPECTION TO SECURE THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS. The General Conference of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations, having been convened at Geneva by the governing body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Fifth Session on the 22nd October, 1923, and having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the general principles for the organization of factory inspection, the question forming the agenda of the session, and having determined that these proposals should take the form of a recommendation, adopts, this twenty-ninth day of October of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the following recommendation, to be submitted to the members of the International Labour Organization for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles and of the corresponding Parts of the other Treaties of Peace. Whereas the Treaty of Versailles and the other Treaties of Peace include among the methods and principles of special and urgent importance for the physical, moral, and intellectual welfare of the workers the principle that each State, should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the workers : Whereas the resolutions adopted at the First Session of the International Labour Conference concerning certain countries where special conditions prevail involve the creation by these countries of an inspection system if they do not already possess such a system : Whereas the necessity of organizing a system of inspection becomes specially urgent when Conventions adopted at sessions of the Conference are being ratified by members of the organization and put into force : Whereas while the institution of an inspection system is undoubtedly to be recommended as one of the most effective means of ensuring the enforcement of Conventions and other engagements