NIGHT BAKING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18404, 10 June 1925, Page 10

NIGHT BAKING.

PROHIBITION VOTE AT GENEVA. (by cable—pbess association—copibight.) :. (Australian and n.z. qable association.; GENEVA, June 9. The International Labour Conference adopted by 81 votes to 26, a convention prohibiting' the' making of bread, pastry, and other flour confectionery by ail persons, including proprietors as well as workers, during the night. The term "night" signifies seven consecutive hours, the beginning and end of which shall be fixed by a competent authority in each country, after consultation with employers' and workers' organisations, and the period shall include the interval between eleven o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning, except when the climate or season requires the interval to be between ten o'clock at night and four o'clock in the.morning. The convention will come into force on January Ist, 1927. A convention was also, adopted classing poisoning by lead, and poisoning by mercury. and anthrax as occupational diseases. Ik/provides for compensation to be paid for workmen who are incapacitated, or whose death is caused by such diseases, such payment to be in accordance with the principle of national legislation relating to compensation for industrial accidents.