OF GREAT VALUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 3

OF GREAT VALUE

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE OBSERVATIONS BY BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY. FIELD OF SOCIAL BETTERMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 20. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, visited the conference of the International Labour Office governing body in London today. Mr Eden said that if the International Labour Office had not existed we should have found it necessary to try to create it now “because it is the only tripartite organisation which represents Government, employers, and 1 workers that can help give effect to social objectives.” “It is 1 good not only that this organisation exists,” he said, “but that is continues to enjoy the confidence of the organised workers and the organised employers of the freedom-loving people all over the world. ’ Their organisation was in a very real sense an organisation of the people, he said. They also kept happily clear of political controversy and worked all the time in that field of social betterment where they had unrivalled expert experience and expert knowledge. With the developments of science there must be moments when we wondered were there to be a third war what could be left. It seemed to him that we just had this last chance after this next victory.

Immense responsibility rested on those in whose hands power lay in the coming years. Immense responsibility rested on the 1.L.0. organisation.