The Archive · 1932

International Labour Office Meeting

Geneva, Apr. 7

'At the meeting of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, to-day, M. Jouhaux (France) speaking on behalf of the workers' group, proposed that there should be an increase in contributions from members. M, Jouhaux argued that the contributions from the various countries were very small compared with the sums spent on armaments.

'The employers' group, hower pointed out that the industries in the various States tunable to atip= port further taxation, The British and German Govern. ment delegates. adopted a negative attitude towards the prop

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