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International Labour Conference. 



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consider measures for the prevention of or providing against unemployment 

 amongst agricultual workers suitable to the economic and agricultural 

 conditions of its couutry, and that it should examine particularly from 

 this point of view the advisability : — 



(1) of adopting modern technical methods to bring into cultivation 

 land which is at present not worked or only partially developed, but 

 which could by such means be made to yield an adequate return ; 



(2) of encouraging the adoption of improved systems of cultivation 

 and the more intensive use of the land : 



(3) of providing facilities for settlement on the land ; 



(4) of taking steps rendering work of a temporary nature accessible 

 to unemployed agricultural vrorkers by means of the provision of transport 

 facilities ; 



(5) of developing industries and supplementary forms of employment 

 which would provide occupation for agricultural workers who suffer from 

 seasonal unemployment provided steps be taken to ensure that such work 

 is carried on under equitable conditions ; 



(6) of taking steps to encourage the creation of agricultural workers' 

 co-operative societies for the working and purchase or renting of land ; 

 and of taking steps to this end to increase agricultural credit especially in 

 favour of co-operative agricultural associations of land workers estab- 

 lished for the purpose of agricultural production. 



The International Labour Conference recommends that each Member 

 of the International Labour Organisation furnish the International Labour 

 OflBce with a periodical report dealing with the steps taken to give effect 

 to the above Recommendation." 



Compensation for Accidents. — In the case of this subject, 

 there was general agi'eement that in those countries where forms 

 of insurance against accidents were in operation, it was only 

 reasonable that agricultural workers should enjoy the same 

 privileges as other workers, and the Conference therefore adopted 

 the following Convention ; — 



" Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which 

 ratifies this Convention undertakes to extend to all agricultural wage- 

 earners its laws and regulations which provide for the compensation of 

 workers for personal injury by accident arising out of or in the course of 

 their employment." 



Rights of Association. — Similar considerations influenced the 

 proposal to give to agricultural workers the same rights as 

 industrial workers in regard to liberty of combination and 

 association. 



" Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which 

 ratifies this Convention undertakes to secure to all those engaged in 

 agriculture the same rights of association and combination as to industrial 

 workers and to repeal any statutory or other provision restricting such 

 rights in the case of those engaged in agriculture." 



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