HE mail brings reports from Geneva, details of three important decisions taken by the International Labour Conference in June, 1930. The first is a long resolution concerning the application to factories owned by extra-territorial nationals of the same standards of employment as are applicable to Chinese factories under the national factory law. and their extension to foreign administered areas, in particular the International Settlement.
Realising the failure to solve the problem thus existing, the resolution in strong terms seeks termination of a situation in which both foreign factories and Chinese factories escape adequate regulation because of the alleged possibility of inequitable application. Finally the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization is called upon to seek anew a solution to the problem, either by conference between the parties, or by a Convention to which member-states of the I. L. O. would be called upon to adhere.
The second resolution has already been reported by cable, and again proposes to use the instrument of international convention to regulate the hours of work in the textile industry in those countries which for obvious reasons cannot adhere to the terms of the 40 hours week convention which the Conference passed applying to the textile trades.
The third resolution intimates that a conference in Asia and devoted specially to Asiatic problems is likely to materialise when the preparatory work which has already been in operation for some time has developed further.
A special Committee is likely Ca 1 soon to be appointed to concern itself with Asiatic Labour issues.
The following are the resolutions; submitted by various delegates, transmitted by the Resolutions Committee and adopted by the International Labour Conference.
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