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adopts, this twenty-second day of June, of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Minimum Age (Family Undertakings) Recommendation, 1937 — Whereas the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937, while restricting the scope of the exception for family undertakings contained in the 1919 Convention, still permits such undertakings to be excluded from its scope except in the case of employments which, by their nature or the circumstances in which they are carried on, are dangerous to the life, health, or morals of the persons employed therein; and Whereas it is reasonable to hope that it will be possible to suppress this exception completely in the not-distant future ; The Conference recommends that the members of the organization should make every effort to apply their legislation relating to the minimum age of admission to all industrial undertakings, including family undertakings.

APPENDIX 16.—RESOLUTION, EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS. TEXT OF RESOLUTION CONCERNING ANNUAL RETURNS AS TO EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS. Whereas the Conference in 1935 adopted a Recommendation concerning unemployment among young persons, paragraph 17 of which is as follows : — " Until such time as the recommendation made in paragraph 1 is fully applied in the various countries, annual returns should be compiled showing the number of children still under the school-leaving age who during the year have been engaged in employment out of school hours. Such returns should be classified by sex, age group, and occupation, and should give details of the days of the week and the seasons during which such employment was carried on, and the number and incidence of the hours of employment." The Conference invites the governing body of the International Labour Office to request the Governments to furnish such returns to the International Labour Office in order that they may be published in one of the Office's publications.

APPENDIX 17.—RESOLUTIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. TEXT OF SEVEN RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE, GENEVA, JUNE, 1937. 1. Maintenance of Insurance Eights of Migrant Workers. 1. Whereas it is more than ever essential, when a resumption of migratory movements may be expected, to secure to persons insured or pensioned under social-insurance schemes who have to change their country or residence, and likewise to their families, the maintenance of their rights, in course of acquisition or acquired, under such schemes, especially schemes of invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance ; 2. Whereas the bilateral treaties which have been entered into during the last ten years in regard to social insurance and which provide, as between the insurance schemes of the contracting countries, for the maintenance of pension rights are intended to protect the vital interests of migrant insured persons and their families ; 3. Whereas the effect of the Draft Convention adopted by the 1935 session of the International Labour Conference concerning the establishment of an international scheme for the maintenance of rights under invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance will be to promote the general and early acceptance of those methods upon which the bilateral treaties are based, and to secure international recognition of the rights of migrant insured or pensioned persons ; 4. Whereas it is moreover urgent, with a view to facilitating and expediting the putting into operation of the international scheme for the maintenance of rights under invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance, that a systematic collection and study should be made of the legal, technical, and administrative rules laid down in the bilateral treaties and of the experience gained in their application, The Conference requests the governing body to instruct the International Labour Uihce to prepare with the help of expert advice, a collection of the international treaties and the texts of laws and regulations whose object is to provide for the protection of migrant persons insured or pensioned under social-insurance schemes which would contribute to the general adoption of the principle of the maintenance of rights under invalidity, old-age, and widows' and orphans' insurance. 2. Protection of Indigenous Workers. The Twenty-third Session of the International Labour ConferenceNotes with satisfaction that the governing body of the International Labour Office has afforded the Conference an opportunity of continuing its work for the protection of Native labour by placing the question of " the regulation of contracts of employment of indigenous workers " on the Agenda of the Twenty-fourth Session ; But considering that, even after the adoption of a Draft Convention concerning the contracts of employment of indigenous workers, there will remain a number of special problems of the life and labour of these workers which should be dealt with by international regulations,

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