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IV Confident that the fuller and broader utilization of the world's productive resources necessary for the achievement of the objectives set forth in this Declaration can be secured by effective international and national action, including measures to expand production and consumption, to avoid severe economic fluctuations, to promote the economic and social advancement of the less developed regions of the world, to assure greater stability in world prices of primary products, and to promote a high and steady volume of international trade, the Conference pledges the full co-operation of the International Labour Organization with such international bodies as may be entrusted with a share of the responsibility for this great task and for the promotion of the health, education and well-being of all peoples. V The Conference affirms that the principles set forth in this Declaration are fully applicable to all peoples everywhere and that, while the manner of their application must be determined with due regard to the stage of social and economic development, reached by each people, their progressive application to peoples who are still dependent, as well as to those who have already achieved self-government, is a matter of concern to the whole civilized world. The foregoing is the authentic text of the Declaration concerning the aims and purposes of the International Labour Organization unanimously adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization at Philadelphia during its Twenty-sixth Session, on 10 May 1944. In faith whereof we have appended our signatures, this seventeenth day of May, 1944. The President of the Conference. W. Nash. The Acting Director of the International Labour Office. Edward J. Phelan. The Recommendation (No. 67) concerning income security, the Recommendation (No. 68) concerning income security and medical care for persons discharged from the armed forces and assimilated services and from war employment, the Recommendation (No. 69) concerning medical care, the Recommendation (No. 70) concerning minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories, the Recommendation (No. 71) concerning employment organization in the transition from war to peace, the Recommendation (No. 72) concerning the employment service and the Recommendation (No. 73) concerning the national planning of public works, here reprinted, were adopted by the International Labour Conference at its Twenty-sixth Session, held at Philadelphia, from 20 April to 12 May 1944. The texts of the Recommendations as here presented are true copies of the texts authenticated by the signatures of the President of the International Labour Conference and of the Acting Director of the International Labour Office, in accordance with the provisions of Article 19, paragraph 4, of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization. For the Director of the International Labour Office : C. W. Jenks, Legal Adviser of the International Labour Office. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE Recommendation [No. 67] concerning Income Security The General Conference of the International Labour Organization— Having been convened at Philadelphia by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-sixth Session on 20 April 1944, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to income security, which is included in the fourth item on the agenda of the Session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation, adopts, this twelfth day of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, the following Recommendation which may be cited as the Income Security Recommendation, 1944 :— Whereas the Atlantic Charter contemplates " the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing for all improved labour standards, economic advancement and social security " ; and Whereas the Conference of the International Labour Organization, by a resolution adopted on 5 November 194.1, endorsed this principle of the Atlantic Charter and pledged the full co-operation of the International Labour Organization in its implementation ; and Whereas income security is an essential element in social security ; and Whereas the International Labour Organization has promoted the development of income security— By the adoption by the International Labour Conference of Conventions and Recommendations relating to workmen's compensation for accidents and occupational diseases, sickness insurance, provision for maternity, old-age, invalidity, and widows' and orphans' pensions, knd provision for unemployment, By the adoption by the First and Second Labour Conferences of American States of the resolutions constituting the Inter-American Social Insurance Code, by the participation of a delegation of the Governing Body in the First Inter-American Conference on Social Security which adopted the Declaration of Santiago de Chile, and by the approval by the Governing Body of the Statute of the Inter-American Conference on Social Security established as a permanent agency of co-operation between social security administrations and institutions acting in concert with the International Labour Office, and By the participation of the International Labour Office in an advisory capacity in the framing of social insurance schemes in a number of countries and by other measures ; and

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