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International Labor Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The thirty-first session of the ILO Conference opened on June 17, 1948, in San Francisco. Six new members — Burma, Ceylon, El Salvador, Syria, Pakistan, and the Philippines — attended the session; Yugoslavia sent no representative after having given notice of pending withdrawal. The agenda of the conference included: 1) a report by Edward Phelan, Director-General of the International Labor Office; 2) the organization's 1949 budget; 3) reports on the application of conventions; 4) employment service organization, including the consideration of the adoption of a convention providing for national employment services; 5) vocational guidance; 6) payment of fair wages on government contracts and establishment of measures to protect wages; 7) freedom of association and protection of the right to organize; 8) industrial relations, including methods of guaranteeing the right to organize, collective bargaining, conciliation and arbitration, and cooperation between governments and management and labor organizations; 9) revision of a convention regulating night work of women; 10) revision of a convention regulating night work of young persons; and 11) privileges and immunities of ILO.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities II. Specialized Agencies
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 For text of convention see New York Times, July 3, 1948.

2 Ibid., July 6, 1948.

3 ILO News Service, 06 1948Google Scholar.

4 Department of State Bulletin, XVIII, p. 701Google Scholar.

5 ILO News Service, 06 1948Google Scholar.