International Labor Organization

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-392
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor

The 133rd session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO) was held in. Geneva from November 20 to 26, 1956, under the chairmanship of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans (United Kingdom).

International Labor Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-577
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
General Note ◽  
Preliminary Consideration

The 125th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization was held in Geneva on May 28 and 29, 1954, with Mr. A. M. Malik (Pakistan) presiding. Preliminary consideration was given to the agenda for the 39th session of the ILO Conference (1956), which, it was decided, would be comprised of the Director-Generals report, financial and budgetary questions, and information on the application of Conventions and Recommendations, The Director-General was requested to submit to the November session of the Governing Body reports dealing with the national law and practices of member states in the fields of (1) weekly rest in commerce and offices, (2) living and working conditions of indigenous populations in independent countries, and (3) forced labor. He was also requested to provide a general note on the conditions of plantation workers and on discrimination in the field of employment and occupation.

International Labor Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-172
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Conference Committee

Governing BodyThe Governing Body of the International Labor Organization held its 127th session in Rome from November 16 through 19, 1954, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. Ago (Italy). After deciding that the 39th session of the ILO Conference should open in Geneva on June 6, 1956, and noting that, in addition to the regular agenda items, the questions of vocational training in agriculture and welfare facilities for workers were likely to be carried over from the 38th session, the Governing Body considered several reports put before it by the Director-General (Morse) relating to possible further agenda items for the 39th session of the Conference. A study on discrimination in the field of employment and occupation, and a note setting forth certain questions relating to conditions of plantation workers were also discussed. The Governing Body decided to add to the agenda of the 39th session three new items of 1) forced labor, 2) weekly rest in commerce and offices, and 3) living and working conditions of indigenous populations in independent countries. The Governing Body's Committee on Standing Orders and the Application of Conventions and Recommendations was instructed to give further consideration to various points relating to the organization of the work of the ILO Conference, and particularly to arrangements for discussion of the Director-General's report and the work of the Conference committee on the application of conventions and recommendations.

International Labor Organization

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-525
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Legislative Body ◽  
International Labor

The 30th International Labor ConferenceThe International Labor Conference, the legislative body of the ILO, convened for its 30th session on June 19,1947, at Geneva. C. J. Hambro (Norway) was elected president; vice-presidents selected were Carlos Desmaras (Argentina), Robert Watt (United States) and Sir John Forbes-Watson (United Kingdom).

International Labor Organization

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-222
Keyword(s):  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Member States ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Independent Commission

The 137th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO) was held in Geneva from October 29 to November 1, 1957, under the chairmanship of E. Calderon Puig. The Governing Body devoted three sittings to the consideration of matters concerning freedom of association, in connection with which it received from the Director-General a report on the establishment of machinery to determine the facts relating to freedom of association in ILO member states. The report contained proposals to strengthen ILO methods of promoting respect for freedom of association under regular constitutional machinery through factual inquiries and the establishment of independent machinery for the adjustment of disputes. Several members of the Governing Body felt that prior to forming the proposed body the definition of freedom of association would require clarification, while others felt that the tripartite principle should be introduced into the suggested independent commission or that a body representing the Governing Body should be installed between the commission and the Governing Body.

International Labor Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
Two Bodies

The 117th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization met at Geneva from November 22 to 26, 1951 under the chairmanship of Paul Ramadier. Meetings of the Governing Body's committees on manpower and employment, finance and administration, relations with other international organizations, industrial committees, technical assistance, and allocations preceded the session, at which reports of these committees were considered. Also on the Governing Body's agenda was the report of the third session of the Asian Advisory Committee, which was held in Geneva from November 10 to 13. The Governing Body authorized the Director-General (Morse) to consult the Egyptian government on suggestions which might result in an investigation by ILO of Egyptian charges that United Kingdom military authorities were using arms to force Egyptians to work in the Suez Canal zone. Among its other decisions the Governing Body accepted an invitation from Brazil to hold ILO's Fifth American Regional Conference at Rio de Janeiro from April 17 to 30, 19S2, authorized the Director-General to undertake consultations with a view to the convening of a tripartite meeting of representatives from coal-producing countries on problems of the coal mining industry, and reaffirmed the need for ILO to continue to assist governments in solving immediate practical problems in the manpower field and, particularly, to provide them with technical assistance concerning the migration process. An invitation from Turkey to locate ILO's Near and Middle East Manpower Field Office at Istanbul was accepted, and an agreement by ILO and the Council of Europe providing for cooperation between the two bodies approved. It was decided that the next session of the Governing Body should be held at Geneva from March 11 to 14, 1952.

International Labor Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-491
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Conference

Governing BodyBefore concluding its 111th session in Geneva, the ILO Governing Body took the following actions: 1) established a committee to advise the Governing Body on “Asian problems and on the Asian aspects of general problems;” 2) accepted the application of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions for consultative relationships with ILO; 3) decided to hold early in 1951 a Near and Middle East Regional Conference; and 4) deferred until its autumn session consideration of the proposal that ILO create a commission to conduct an impartial inquiry into the nature and extent of forced labor throughout the world.

International Labor Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Full Development ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Fact Finding

The 110th meeting of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization was scheduled to meet at Mysore, India from January 3 to 7, 1950. Among the twenty-six agenda items was a recommendation of the General Conference of ILO that the Governing Body consider instructing Director General David A. Morse to prepare a report on the problem of unemployment. The Governing Body was requested to consider at the same time the desirability of placing the question on the agenda of the International Labor Conference. Other matters calling for action by the Governing Body were proposals: 1) for the establishment of a special ILO committee on Asian affairs to ensure full development of ILO Asian activities; 2) for a program of ILO fellowships; and 3) that ILO create a fact-finding and conciliation commission on freedom of association which would provide impartial investigation of questions of infringement of trade union rights, as suggested by the Economic and Social Council.

International Labor Organization

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Contract Of Employment

From November 24 to 28, 1952, the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization met in its 120th session in Geneva, under the chairmanship of Fernando Cisternas (Chile). The Governing Body decided that the thirty-seventh session of the International Labor Conference, to be held in Geneva, should open on June 4, 1954. After long discussion on proposals relating to the agenda of this session, the Governing Body decided to add the following to those items necessarily included: a) technical assistance, b) penal sanctions for breaches of contract of employment, c) migrant workers (underdeveloped countries), and d) vocational rehabilitation of the disabled. It was agreed that the next Asian regional conference should be held in Japan in September 1953 and that its agenda should include problems of wage policies and workers' housing in Asia and measures for protection of young workers in Asia. Regarding other meetings, the Governing Body instructed the tripartite subcommittee of the Joint Maritime Commission, which was to meet in 1953, to consider the need for a tripartite regional conference on hours of work and manning in the short-sea trades of northwest Europe and a resolution under which the United Nations Economic and Social Council would be invited to study the possibility of establishing machinery to regulate freight rates for shipping in this region; decided that a meeting of experts should be held in July 1953 to examine systems of payment by results in the construction industry and the techniques involved in their introduction and operation; fixed the agenda for the fourth session of the Permanent Agriculture Committee, to be convened in May 1953 in Geneva; and authorized the Director-General (Morse) to convene the eighth international conference of labor statisticians early in 1954 in Geneva, the conference to be preceded by a preliminary meeting of statistical experts in 1953 in order to define the scope of the conference's agenda.

International Labor Organization

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-154
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

Further Decisions of the ILO San Francisco Meetings: The Governing Body approved in principle the establishment of consultative relationships with the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions and the Inter-American Confederation of Labor, and accepted for the ILO the United Nations convention on the privileges and immunities of the specialized agencies as modified by an annex relating to the ILO. As a result of the decisions of the Conference the total number of international labor conventions adopted by the Organization was brought to 90 and the total number of recommendations to 83. The Governing Body decided that the next session of the conference would be held in Geneva, Switzerland, June 8, 1949.

International Labor Organization

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-337 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Operational Activities

The 143d session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO) was held in Geneva from November 17 to November 20, 1959. As had been decided at its 141st session (March 1959), the Governing Body was given an opportunity at the outset to review the major emphases and trends of ILO's activities and methods of work. This was undertaken as an experiment which the Governing Body could repeat if it deemed it necessary or beneficial. Opening the debate, the United States representative pointed out that ILO's objective of improving the condition of the underdeveloped countries had generally been regarded as most important and that much still remained to be done in that field. He cautioned against the dissipation of efforts on secondary matters, as funds for operational activities were limited and the setting of priorities was therefore imperative. In his opinion, some of the industrial committees had been running out of useful work; he thus suggested substituting for them ad hoc meetings designed to cope with specific regional problems. He also criticized various joint projects ILO had undertaken with other specialized agencies as well as the drafting of rigid instruments which, in his opinion, occupied too much of the Organization's time. In the ensuing discussion, all representatives agreed on the importance and necessity of ILO's operational activities, particularly technical assistance. Several speakers suggested that technical assistance should not be confined to industry but should also be given to agriculture. The representative of West Germany, for one, expressed the view that the Organization should intensify its work in the field of employment and labor-management relations, while the Indian spokesman favored workers’ education programs and vocational training, as well as a long term project for raising living standards in rural areas.

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