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IX.—Safeguarding Clause. 45. Inclusion in the regulations of a safeguarding clause providing that, in accordance with Article 19, paragraph 11, of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, nothing in the international regulations shall affect any law, award, custom, or agreement between employers and workers which ensures more favourable conditions to the workers than those provided for in such regulations. X. —Supervision of Enforcement. (1) Obligations on Employers and Drivers. 46. Drawing up by the employer of a roster, to be communicated to the staff and supervisory authorities. 47. Keeping by the employer of a register or individual card for each worker, showing the number of hours worked. 48. Issue by the employer to each driver of an individual control book. 49. Keeping by the driver of an individual control book, and entering therein of driving-time, hours of work, and hours of duty. 50. Other methods of control —for example, installation on mechanically propelled vehicles of instruments registering the effective hours of duty of the driver. (2) Obligations on Governments. 51. Establishment of a standard form for control books. 52. Setting up or maintenance of a system for the supervision of enforcement of the regulations by the labour inspection department, traffic commissioners, police, or other appropriate administrative authority extending not only to garages, depots, and other premises, but also to the roads. 53. Indication in the annual reports under Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization of the action taken for supervision of application of' the international regulations, and in particular— (a) The method of averaging for hours of work. (b) The number of hours of overtime worked. (c) Any recourse to the special provisions for the gradual application of the international regulations. (d) Any recourse to the special provisions for certain areas or countries. The Conference, by ninety-six votes for to twenty-seven against, decided to place this question on the agenda of the 1939 session of the Conference. GENERALIZATION OF THE REDUCTION OF THE HOURS OF WORK. The International Labour Office subdivided this question into four parts, as follows:— Part 1— (a) General introduction. (5) Industry, commerce, and offices. Part 2 — Section A: Rail transport. Section B: Inland-water transport. Section C: Air transport. Part 3: Coal-mines. Part 4: Hours of work statistics. With reference to Part 3, Coal-mines, a meeting was held at Geneva on the 2nd to 10th May, 1938, of the Tripartite _ Technical Committee of the industry, and was attended by delegates from the following coal-producing countries: — Belgium; Czechoslovakia (no Government representative); France; Great Britain; Netherlands; Poland; Yugo; and the United States of America. The Conference was also attended by a Government delegate from Brazil and Chile and Greece appointed an observer. ' The Tripartite Conference recommended that further discussion of the subiect— coal-mmes—was unnecessary _at the twenty-fourth session of the 1938 Conference but recommended that the _ question should be treated as a separate item and placed on the agenda of the 1939 session for final discussion. The employers attending the Tripartite Conference abstained from voting on the above-described resolution, as they contended they had attended the Conference as experts and were not competent to decide and vote on a question of procedure

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