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International Labour Conference. 



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Full information as to the courses of instruction and other 

 work which will be carried on at these institutes can be obtained 

 on application to the County Agricultural Education Authorities. 



The Third International Conference held in accordance with 



the Labour Clauses of the Peace Treaty assembled at Geneva 



_ . ... on 25th October, 1921. This Conference, 

 International ^ . . , ' ^ . , . , 



Labour which all the countries which were 



Conference par^ties to the Peace Treaty (except the 

 ITnited States of America) are represented, 

 is of special interest to agriculture owing to the fact that a 

 number of items on the agenda relate to agricultural labour, 

 viz. : — 



Adaptation to agricultural labour of the Washington decisions 

 concerning the regulation of the hours of work. 



Adaptation to agricultural labour of the Washington decisions 

 concerning : — 



(a) Measures for the prevention of or providing against 

 unemployment ; 



(b) Protection of women and children. 



Special measures for the protection of agricultural workers : — 



(a) Technical agricultural education; 



(b) Ijiving-in conditions of agricultural workers; 



(c) Guarantee of the rights of association and combina- 

 tion ; 



(d) Protection against accident, sickness, invalidity and 

 old age. 



Each participating country is represented at the Conference 

 by two Government Delegates, one Delegate representing the 

 employers and one Delegate representing the workpeople. 



In the case of Great Britain the Government Delegates are 

 Sir Montague Barlow, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the 

 Ministry of Labour, and Sir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., E.K.S., Chief 

 Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture ; the Employers' 

 Delegate is General A. C. Bayley, National Confederation of 

 Employers' Organisations; and the Delegate representing the 

 workpeople is Mr. E. L. Poulton, O.B.E., J. P., Yice-Chairmaii 

 of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress. The 

 Employers' Delegate will be assisted as regards agTicultural 

 questions by Mr. James Donaldson, Vice-President of th^ 

 National Farmers' Union, and by Mr. Alexander Batchelor, Vi 

 President of the Scottish Farmers' Union: the Workers' Fel^- 



