Republican farmer., 1919-04-18
Permanent Labor Organization
 WiII Remedy Industrial Evils
One of Recommendations of Committee on Interna-
 tional Labor.
MANY VALUABLE
 MEASURES ADOPTED
No Child Labor to Be Per mitted Under Age of
 Fourteen Years.

Paris, April 12-RecOmmen" ldatiOnS embodied in the report of the committee on Interna- tional labor legislation which was adopted by the Peace Con- ference yesterday include the following:
 Establishment of a perma- nent labor organization to ren- edy industrial evils and inius- tices (which mar the present state of society"
 The international labor conference is to meet once anIHlally and consist of four representatives from each state, including two representing the government one the employers and one the workers. Each delegation may have two advisers, one of whom must be A. woman. When questions affecting women are under discussion the voting shall Joe individual, and not the traditional procedure of vot- ing. The first meeting Is reCOm- mended for next October at Wash ington. The program will embrace the principle of the eiEht-hour day and the 4s-hour week, prevention of unemployment women's employment before and after child birth women and childrens' employment during the night or in unhealthy processes, a minimum age for the employment of children, the extension of the inter national conventions adopted at Berne in 1906 prohibiting night work by women and the use of white phOS- phorus in the manufacture of matches.
 Establishment of an international labor office at the seat of the League of Nations, as part of the league, to collect and distribute information on the international adjustment of con- ditions of industrial life and labor; subjects which it Is proposed to bring before the conference; the conduct of special Investigations as ordered by the conference; the preparation of Agenda for tho conference; the pub lication of a newspa per in the French, English and other languages and gen orally to act as a clearing house on matters of international labor. This office Is to be controlled by a gov erning body Ofs 24 members, of whom 12 are to ber- selected by the govern ments, each elected by delegates at conference representing employers and workers, respectively.
 Employers and workers should be allowed the right of association for all lawful purposes.
 No child should be permitted to be employed Ca in industry or commerce before the7 age of fourteen, in order that every child be assured reasonable opportunities for mental and physical education. Between the years of 14 and IS, young persons of either sex may be employed at work which is not harmful to their physical de- velopment on condition that their technical or general education is as- sured.
 Every worker has the right to a wage adequate to maintain a reason able standard of life, having regard 10 the civilization of his time and his country.
 Equal pay should be given to women and men for work of equal value in quantity and quality.
 Limitation Is recommended of the hours of work in industry on the basis of hours per day and IS hours per week. subject to exception in coun- tries in which climatic conditions. imperfect development of industrial organization or other special clrcum- stainces render the industrial effici- enCy of the workers substantially diff 1erent. The international labor con ference will recommend a basis ap- ,proximately equivalent to the above for the adoption of such countries.
 In.all matters concering their status .sas workers. and in social insurance foreign worlxmen lawfully admitted to another country, and their families. should be insured the same treatment as the nationals of that country. All states should institute a system of in spection in which women should take part. in order to insure the enforce ment of the laws and regulations for the protection of workers.