Berne, Sept. 9.
The Conferencewt Labour Minis-tors concluded to-day. The Ministers agreed on the desirability of reaching practical international application of the principle of the eight-hour: day on the basis of the Washington Convention., The German Minister, Herr Brauns, emphasized that he could not accept anything implying any sort of foreign control on German hi economic legislation. He was assured that the position of all countries signing the convention would be exactly the same. Any country doubting the efficacy of the application of the eight-hour day in Pin een per Ape gem areer itn] governing body of the International Labour Office, which may inquire into the matter. Finally the complaint may have to be submitted to the International Court of Justice.
Herr Brauns thereupon agreed to recommend the ratification of the convention by Germany.
Albert Thomas, the Director of the International Labour Office, speaking subsequently on the results the Conference, declared that the full and sincere ratification of the Convention was bound to. follow.—
Reuter.
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