The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
SECTION 13 INTERN ATIONAL LABOR BODIES

INTERN RATIONAL LABOR BODIES l Members of the league of nations agree i to establish a permanent organization to | promote international adjustment or la l Dor conditions. to consist Of an anhuai l ir ternational labor conference and an in- | ternational labor office.
 ] The former is composed of four repN-
 sontatves of each state, two from the | government and one each from the em-
 blowers and the employed; each of them l may vote individually. It will be de- 1 Lucrative legislation body, its measures | taking the form of draft conventions or 1 recommendations for legislation, which 1 if passed by two-thirds vote must re submitted to the law-making authority I in every state participating. Each gar | ernment may either enact the terms into laws. approve the principle, but modify | them to local needs; leave the actuss llegisla tion in case of a Federal state 10 local legislatures, reject the conVenN tion altogether without further obliga- tion.
 | The international labor office IS estao' lshed at the seat of the league or ha- tions as part of it's organization. It rs to collect and distribute information on labor throughout the world and prepare
 apenda for the conference. It will pup fish a periodical in French and English land possibly other languages. Eacn
 state agrees to make to it for presensa- | tion to the conference an annual repcr, of measures taken to execute accepted lconyentions: the governing body IS lts l executive. It consists of 24 members l12 representing the governments, six th'
 | emrloyers and six the employees, to serV'
 for three years.
 On complaint that any government
 Ihas failed to carry out convention U
 which it is party, the governing poos
 may make inquiries directly to tna' povernment and in case the reply IS sat
 lisfactorv may publish the complaint wit , comment. complaint by one govern
 lment against another may be referre lby the governing body to commissio
 | of inquiry nominated by the secre'ar : l general of the league. If the commissio , report fails to bring satisfactory actlo
 the matter may be taken to pefma
 nent court of international justice sc
 final decision. The chief reliance for SC . jcuring enforcement of the law Will ' ! publicly with a possibility of economi 7, action in the background.
 q The first meeting of the conference WI I take place in October, 1919 at Washinsto IT to discuss the eight-hour day or 4e-hou : week. prevention of unempioyinehl' e1 y tension and application of the interhs I tional conventions adopted at Berne ] II 1908 prohibiting night work for wome {, and inc use of white phosphorus III tn ,nanufacture of matches, and the en U plovment of women and children at mgr \ ar in unhealthy work, of women peloi Il and after child birth, including matel P nitv benefit. and of children as resarc , minimum age.
 ;, LABOR CLAUSES
 .s Nine princlpIes of labor condition i. were recognized on the ground that U ,s well being, physical and moral or the II l. dustrial wage earners is of supreme Il e ternational independence with exec 1T tions necessitated. With exceptions Il
 cessitated by differences of cnma,e
 habits and economic development. th' r include: The guiding principle that iap , | should not be regarded merely as con :. modity or article of commerce. right :. association of employers and empioye ,s A. wage adequate to maintain reason .o ble standard of life; the eight-hour oa ,6 or forty -eight-hour week; a weekly re ., of at least 24 hours which should | ~ clude Sunday. wher ever practcapi abolition of child labor, and assurance
 the continuation of the education al
 nroper physical development of childre ne equal pay for equal work as betwe ne men and women; equitable treatment d. all workers lawfully resident therein, l e. cluding foreigners. and system or ,ir spection in which women should la | rt