Draft Convention Passed in Home Working Trades Geneva, June 15.
After a prolonged debate the La-your Conference to-day, by 78 votes te 27, adopted. a drat Yonvention fon minimum wage fixing machinery for certain trades, particularly for home working trades.
The convention mentioned provides that a worker who has een paid wages below the" minimum fates fixed shall be entitled to re-Cover the amount he has been under paid.
Features of the discussion were the desire of employers that wage fixing machinery should be confined to lime industries which are. mot organized and the success of the uvocacy. of the women " delegates at the Conference with regard to frame. industries In which women and children are "sweated."
'The majority consisted of Government and workers' delegates while the minority comprised all the ea Moyers" delegates. The latter defined that wage fixing machinery Should. be confined to unorganized The Government delegates from India. abstained from. voting. while Afr. Morarice, the delegate of In-jan employers, voted against. the The Japanese Government del aten also. abstained from voting. Only' Mr." Yonokubo, the Japaneas workers' delegate, voted in favour ar the convention while Mr. Fujita, the Japanese. employers' delegate, voted against it.
This afternoon the Conference adopted, by 69 votes to 9, a recom-Iendation embodying certain. tral principles calculated to. produce satisfactory results in "the application of riy oinimam: wage fixing: machinery.
The Conference also adopted, by 85 votes to 20, an amendment moved by "Mr. Nicholson, of the British Ministry of Labour, substituting the words "in which women are ordinarily employed" instead of "in Which the workers employed are generally women," in reference true to which the minimum wags fixing machinery should apply. 'The recommendation concludes by draw-jing the attention of Governments tothe: principle affirmed in' the Treaty of Versailles that men and women should receive equal pay for
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