Evening star., 1937-03-28
FARLEY
TO START FRIDAY
Secretary Hull Expected to
Open International Con-
ference Here.

Secretary Of State Hull is expected
to open the two-week meeting here
Friday Of the Tripartite Preparatory
Textile Conference, for which more
than 200 delegates are coming from
20 countries, including Great Britain,
Japan, France and Belgium.
The purpose Of the conference. ar
ranged by the International Labor
Organization Of Geneva. Switzerland,
is to develop all the facts available
concerning the economic, social and
labog psobaems in the textile indusS
try, which Is almost world wide and
provides work for $4,000, 900 persons.
The conference. which will convene
at the Departmental Auditorium, Con-
stitution avenue and Thirteenth street,
was brought to Washington at the
suggestion of President Roosevelt, after
John g. Winant, former chairman OF
the Social Security Board, and Miss
Frieda Miller introduced . resolution
last Summer at the I. L. o. Geneva
Conference proposing a textile confer
ence Winant, who IS expected to take
an active part in the meeting. and
Miss Miller were the United States
delegates to the Geneva session.
To Gather Information.
ut would be the purpose of this
conference" Winant's resolution said,
"to consider how the work already
undertaken by the International Labor
Organization In connection with the
improvement of conditions in the
textile industry can best be advanced
and to take into account all those
aspects OF the textile industry which,
directly or indirectly, may have a
bearing on the improvement Of the
social conditions Of the industry"
The conference does not expect
to take any definite action, but to
devote itself to gathering complete
fund OF information to bring back
to Geneva for the action OF the 1
L. o. II the I. l.. o. should agree
later to certain labor standards r.
the textile industry by two-thirda
vote, the member countries. includ-
ing the United States, would be bound
to accept those standards.
After the opening session the con-
ferees during the first five or six days
will devote themselves to consideration,
as various committees. of the chief
subdivisions Of the general textile
problem. Then the delegates will
hear the committee reports and devote
the rest Of the time to discussion OF
the question. Pitted against each
other in the discussion will be different
governments As well rs representa- tives
OF labor and of management.
Already here for the meeting are
Corneille Mertens, Belgian workers
representative and workers vice chair
man of the governing body, and Juitsu
Kitaoka, japanese government repre-
sentative. Eight members OF the
Polish delegation reached New York
yesterday, and with them came Garter
Goodrich, United States Government
representative on the governing body
Of the I. L. o.
Second Meeting h U. S.
The secretary general of the con-
ference. which Is the second I. L. O.
meeting ever held in the United States
and the first since this country voted
to Join it in 1884, is Harold B. Butler,
director of the international labor Of
nee, who vas secretary general Of the
first international labor conference,
held in Washington in 1919 at the
instigation of President Wilson and
Samuel Gompers, then president Of
the American Federation Of Labor.
Among the interesting personalities
who will be here during the conference
are two famous skiers and former
world champion typist, who will act
~ q conference stenographer.
The ski champions are two Swiss,
Mile. Loulou Boulaz, French women s
title holder in 1856, and Paul
Schnaidt, one Of the most experienced
mountain climbers in Switzerland.
Nine. Chaubert is the tipping champion.
An automobile tour Of Civilian Con-
servation Corps camps in Virginia
April IL has been arranged by DR.. Rob-
ert Fechner, director Of emergency
conservation work for the delegates,
who will be taken over Skyline Drive
through Shenandoah National Park,
where they will eat lunch with the
G. c. q. boys. The delegates will be
shsvn several Virginia battlsdelds on
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