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3. Resolution concerning Tripartite Organizations and other Appropriate Arrangements The Conference requests the Governing Body to communicate the following proposals to the Governments of countries represented at the Conference and to instruct the Office to make a study of the working of the tripartite organization, or other appropriate arrangements, to secure co-operation between Governments and organizations of workers and employers, and submit a report for the information and consideration of the next Regional Conference. (1) The Governments should give consideration to the setting-up in their Countries of tripartite organizations, with committees to deal with special problems, consisting of representatives of Governments, employers, and workers, or other appropriate arrangements — (a) To promote appropriate measures for — (i) Raising the standard of living of workers; providing them with proper and fair conditions of life and work, social security, full opportunity for their economic and social welfare and social justice ; (ii) Increasing production and output in industry. (b) To advise concerning measures necessary to implement decisions adopted by the International and Regional Conferences, and such of the resolutions adopted by the Industrial Committees as are communicated to the Governments by the decisions of the Governing Body; and formulation of recommendations concerning such other questions as may fall within their competence or may be referred to them. (2) Governments should consult their respective tripartite organizations or other machinery provided for in the preceding paragraph in the matter of labour and economic policy, including legislation and its enforcement. (3) Governments should take all possible steps to provide means and facilities for the full and efficient functioning of the tripartite organizations or other appropriate arrangements in their respective countries. (4) Governments should seek to promote close co-operation between the 1.L.0. and their tripartite organizations or other arrangements by such means as may be found to be feasible and appropriate. 4. Resolution concerning Increased Production Whereas most Asian countries are suffering from acute shortages of production, which not only reduce employment opportunities, but result in a serious deterioration in the standards of living of the people ; Whereas effective steps should be taken immediately to create conditions favourable to the promotion and maintenance of production at the highest possible level; This Conference recommends the Governing Body to call the attention of the Governments of the Asian States represented at this Conference to the following : (a) The urgent necessity for increasing production ; (b) The need for increasing productive efficiency to the maximum extent; (c) The need for establishing, in consultation with organizations of emplojrers and workers, suitable consultative negotiating or statutory bodies for the speedy and equitable resolution of differences between labour and management; and (d) The need to secure the fullest co-operation of employers and workers in eliminating conditions of insecurity and dissatisfaction which affect production, and in discouraging conditions which lead to the stoppage or slowing down of production for any reason whatsoever.

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