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The Conference elected the Government Delegate of Canada, Senator Gideon D. Robertson, as its President. The following Vice-Presidents were appointed: Mr Hammarskjöld, a Swedish Government Delegate; Mr Theodore Schmidt, an Austrian Employers' Delegate ; and Mr Kupers, a Netherlands Workers' Delegate. Source: Minutes of the First Sitting. |
Forty-nine States were represented. This number included twenty-seven European Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. |
I. Abolition of fee-charging employment agencies; II. Invalidity, old-age and widows' and orphans' insurance; III. Age of admission of children to employment in non-industrial occupations; IV. Partial revision of the Convention concerning the protection against accidents of workers employed in loading or unloading ships. |
The Sixteenth Session of the International Labour Conference held twenty-one plenary sittings, and adopted two Recommendations and two Draft Conventions:
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The Conference elected the Italian Government Delegate, His Excellency Giuseppe de Michelis, Ambassador of H.M. the King of Italy, Senator, and Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office as its President. As its Vice-Presidents the Conference elected Mr Creswell, a Government Delegate of South Africa, Mra Cort van der Linden, an Employers' Delegate of the Netherlands, and Mr Hayday, a Workers' Delegate of the British Empire. Source: Minutes of the First Sitting. |
Forty-nine States Members of the Organisation were represented. This number included 27 European States, 11 Latin-American States, 7 Asiatic States, 2 African States, and Canada and Australia. The number of delegates sent was 159, 87 of these being Government delegates, 36 employers' delegates, and 36 workers' delegates. The advisers numbered 212. The total number of persons accredited to the Conference was thus 371. Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. |
I. Abolition of fee-charging employment agencies; II. Invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance; III. Unemployment insurance and various forms of relief for the unemployed; IV. Methods of providing rest and alternation of shifts in automatic sheet-glass works; V. Reduction of hours of work: report of the Tripartite Preparatory Conference. |
The Seventeenth Session of the International Labour Conference held twenty-six plenary sittings, and adopted two Recommendations and seven Draft Conventions:
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18th Session - 1934 (4-23 June)
Geneva, Switzerland
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President Senator Justin Godart, French Government Vice-presidents Dr Francisco Castillo Najera, Government Delegate of Mexico Mr Gustave L. Gérard, Employers' delegate of Belgium Mr. Edvard Johanson, Workers' delegate of Sweden. Source: Minutes of the First Sitting. |
Forty-nine States Members of the Organisation were represented. The total number of delegates sent was 142, of whom 83 were Government delegates, 29 Employers' delegates, and 30 Workers' delegates. The advisers numbered 205, making the total number of persons accredited to the Conference 347. Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. |
I. Reduction of hours of work; II. Unemployment insurance and various forms of relief for the unemployed; III. Methods of providing rest and alternation of shifts in automatic sheet-glass works; IV. Maintenance of acquired rights and rights 'in course of acquisition under invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance on behalf of workers who transfer their residence from one country to another; V. Workmen's compensation for occupational diseases: partial revision of the Convention concerning workmen's compensation for occupational diseases; VI. Employment of women on underground work in mines of all kinds; VII. Partial revision of the Convention concerning the employment of women during the night. |
The Eighteenth Session of the International Labour Conference held twenty-five plenary sittings, and adopted one Recommendation and four Draft Conventions:
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19th Session - 1935 (4-25 June)
Geneva, Switzerland
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President Colonel the Hon. Frederic Hugh Page Creswell, Government Delegate of the Union of South Africa Vice-presidents Mr Paal Berg, Norwegian Government delegate Mr Mircea, Rumanian Employers' delegate Mr Jouhaux, French Workers' delegate Source: Minutes of the First Sitting. |
The number of States represented was 52: Europe 27, America 13, Asia 8, Africa 2, Oceania 2. The total number of delegates sent was 159, of whom 89 were Government delegates, 35 Employers' delegates, and 35 Workers' delegates. The number of advisers was 249. Thus, in all, 408 persons were duly accredited to attend the Conference. Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. |
I. Maintenance of rights in course of acquisition and acquired rights under invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance on behalf of workers who transfer their residence from one country to another; II. Employment of women on underground work in mines of all kinds; III. Unemployment among young persons; IV. The recruiting of labour in colonies and in other territories with analogous labour conditions; V. Holidays with pay; VI. Reduction of hours of work, with special reference to: (a) Public works undertaken or subsidised by Governments; (b) Iron and steel; (c) Building and contracting; (d) Glass-bottle manufacture; (e) Coal mines; VII. Partial revision of the Hours of Work (Coal Mines) Convention, 1931. |
The Nineteenth Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty plenary sittings, and adopted one Recommendation and five Draft Conventions:
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20th Session - 1936 (4-24 June)
Geneva, Switzerland
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President Dr C. V. Bramsnaes, Danish Government Delegate Vice-presidents Mr John G. Winant, Government delegate of the United States of America Dr Josef Vanëk, Czechoslovak Employers' delegate Mr Corneille Mertens, Belgian Workers' delegate Source: Minutes of the First Sitting. |
The number of States represented was 51: Europe - 27; America - 13; Asia - 7; Africa - 2; Oceania - 2. The total number of delegates sent was 161, of whom 91 were Government delegates, 35 Employers' delegates, and 35 Workers' delegates. The number of advisers was 256. Thus, in all, 417 persons were duly accredited to attend the Conference. Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. |
I. The regulation of certain Special systems of recruiting workers; II. Holidays with pay; III. Reduction of hours of work on public works undertaken or subsidised by. Governments; IV. Reduction of hours of work in the building and civil engineering industry; V. Reduction of hours of work in iron and steel works; VI. Reduction of hours of work in coal mines; VII. Reduction of hours of work in the textile industry; VIII. Safety provisions for, workers in building construction with reference to scaffolding and hoisting machinery. |
The Twentieth Session of the International Labour Conference held twenty-five plenary sittings, and adopted two Recommendations and three Draft Conventions:
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