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In addition to the decisions it took in the form of new and revised Conventions and Recommendations, the Conference approved resolutions which (1) requested the Governing Body to instruct the International Labour Office—the 1.L.0.'s secretariat—to prepare reports on (a) laws and practices throughout the world governing paid annual holidays and on (b) physical and cultural recreation facilities for workers, and (2) requested the Governing Body (a) to consider instructing the Director-General to prepare without delay a report on the problem of unemployment and (b) to consider the desirability of placing the question of unemployment on the Agenda of an early session of the Conference. The following paragraphs set out in detail the work of the Conferencb. AGENDA The Agenda of the Conference comprised the following items : I. Director-General's Report. 11. Financial and Budgetary Questions. 111. Reports on the Application of Conventions. IV. Application of the Principles of the Right to Organize and to Bargain Collectively (second discussion). Y. Industrial Relations, Comprising Collective Agreements, Conciliation and Arbitration, and Co-operation Between Public Authorities and Employers' and Workers' Organizations (first discussion). VI. Labour Clauses in Public Contracts (second discussion). VII. Protection of Wages (second discussion). VIII. Wages : General Report. IX. Vocational Guidance (second discussion). X. Revision of the Fee-charging Employment Agencies Convention, 1933. XI. Migration for Employment: Revision of the Migration for Employment Convention, 1939, the Migration for Employment Recommendation, 1949, and the Migration for Employment (Co-operation Between States) Recommendation, 1939. XII. Partial revision of some of the 1946 Maritime Conventions. The Conference was held under the presidency of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, United Kingdom Government delegate, with Mr. P. Dupong, of Luxembourg, as Government Vice-President, Mr. P. E. M. Waline, of France, as Employers' Vice-President, and Mr. B. Ibanez, of Chile, as Workers' Vice-President. PLACE AND TIME OF NEXT CONFERENCE The Governing Body decided that the next session of the Conference would be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June, 1950. COMMITTEES AND NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATION THEREON Committees were set up to deal with the various items on the Agenda, New Zealand being represented on the following Committees : Industrial Relations — Mr. J. Thorn (Chairman). Mr. D. T. C. Brayshay. Mr. J. Hanlon (employers) ; substitute, Mr. S. I. McKenzie. Mr. A. W. Croskery (workers).

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