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These conclusions which are set out fully in Appendix 9 hereto as resolutions can be shortly summarized as — (1) Resolution concerning freedom of association and protection of the right to organize and to bargain collectively, endorsing the right to establish organizations; these to have autonomy, protection from dissolution by administrative authority, and a right of national federation and international affiliation; without exemption, however, from responsibilities and obligations. (2) Resolution placing (a) the question of freedom of association and the protection of the right to organize, also (b) the application of the principles of the right to organize and to bargain collectively, collective agreements, conciliation and arbitration, and co-operation between the public authorities and employers' and workers' organizations on the agenda of the 1948 session. Associated with this is a list of points as a basis for discussion. (3) Resolution asking the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to report to the 1948 session on the question of international machinery for supervising freedom of association. W. J. Jordan. H. L. Bockett. APPENDIX I.—CONVENTION CONCERNING SOCIAL POLICY IN NONMETROPOLITAN TERRITORIES The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its thirtieth session on 19 June, 1947, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning social policy in non-metropolitan territories, which is included in the third item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts, this eleventh day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, the following Convention, which may be cited as the Social Policy (Non-metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947. Part I Obligations of Parties Article 1 1. Each member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this Convention undertakes that the policies and measures set forth in the Convention shall be applied in the non-metropolitan territories for which it has or assumes responsibilities, including any trust territories for which it is the administering authority, other than the territories referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, subject to the concurrence of the Governments of the territories concerned in respect of any matters which are within the self-governing powers of the territories. 2. Where the subject-matter of this Convention is wholly or primarily within the self-governing powers of any non-metropolitan territory, the member responsible for the international relations of that territory may, in agreement with the Government of the territory, communicate to the Director-General of the International Labour Office a declaration accepting on behalf of the territory the obligations of this Convention. 3. A declaration accepting the obligations of this Convention may be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office — {a) By two or more members of the Organization in respect of any territory which is under their joint authority; or (b) By any international authority responsible for the administration of any territory, in virtue of the Charter of the United Nations or otherwise, in respect of any such territory.

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