United States of America. Great Britain, France,
Italy, Japan, Belgium and Switzerland, The
Committee may, if it thinks necessary, invite
other Members to appoint" representatives!
Agenda:
(1) Application of principle of the 8-hours
day or of the 48-hours week.
(2) Question of preventing or providing
against unemployment.
(3) Women’s employment:
a) Before ancf after child-birth, including the
question of maternity benefit;
b) During the night;
c) In unhealthy processes.
(4) Employment of children :
a) Minimum age of employment :
b) During the night ;
c) In unhealthy processes.
(5) Extension and application of the Inter¬
national Conventions adopted at Berne in 1906
on the prohibition of night work for women
employed in industry and the prohibition of the
use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of
matches.
Section 11
general principle
Article 372
The High Contracting Parties, recognising
that the well-being, physical, moral and intellec¬
tual, of industrial wage-earners is of supreme
international importance, have framed, in order
to further this great end, the permanent machi¬
nery provided for, in Section I and associated
wirth that of the League of Nations,
They recognise that differences of climate,
habits and customs; of economic opportunity and
industrial tradition, make strict uniformity in the
conditions of labour difficult of immediate attain¬
ment. But, holding as they do, that labour should
not be regarded merely as an article of commerce,
they think that there are nfethods and principles
for regulating labour conditions which all industrial