To be Spent in South Dakota Forest Washington, June 1.
President and Mrs. Coolidge have! proceeded to the Black Hills in South Dakota to spend the summer in the midst of a forest 12 miles from any railway station, Geneva, June 18.
The Labour Conference to-day, by 73 votes to 15, adopted the principle making it obligatory for States that are members of the Interna tional Labour Organization to me troduce compulsory insurance of industrial and commercial workers.
The conference also adopted by 72 votes to two the convention relating to sickness insuratice for industrial and commercial workers and by 72 votes to nil that relating to agricul. tural labourers, June 14, At to-day's sitting of the Labour 'Conference, on the ground that the draft questionnaire with regard to freedom of association had been amended by the Governments and Idid not afford protection to workers' rights, the workers' delegates voted against the questionnaire, which was rejected by 54 votes to 42, 'A. resolution was finally adopted by 60 votes to 42 to refer the sub-Jeet back to the Committee with a [view to reaching a compromise between the contending views of [workers and employers.
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