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safety legislation. The employment situation in New Zealand remains particularly buoyant, and notwithstanding the infusion of many new settlers in our country and the difficulties involved in absorbing large numbers of seasonal workers in the off season between the great summer activities of our primary industries, the number of registered unemployed during the past year in New Zealand has been as low as only 40 and has never exceeded the figure of 100. In conclusion, let me say that New Zealand will continue to give firm support to the work of the International Labour Office. We believe the Office and the Organization together to be one of the principal agencies that will bring to the peoples of the world the happiness and prosperity to which they are entitled and which surely is their right. APPENDIX No. 2.—CONVENTION CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND TO BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having; met in its Thirty-second Session on 8 June, 1949, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning the application of the principles of the right to organize and to bargain colleotively, which is the fourth item on the Agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts this Ist day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 : Article 1 1. Workers shall enjoy adequate protection against acts of anti-union discrimination in respect of their employment. 2. Such protection shall apply more particularly in respect of acts calculated to — (a) Make the employment of a worker subject to the condition that he shall not join a union or shall relinquish trade union membership ; (b) Cause the dismissal of or otherwise prejudice a worker by reason of union membership or because of participation in union activities outside working hours or, with the consent of the employer, within working hours. Article 2 1. Workers' and employers' organizations shall enjoy adequate protection against any acts of interference by each other or each others' agents or members in their establishment, functioning or administration. 2. In particular, acts which are designed to promote the establishment of workers' organizations under the domination of employers or employers' organizations, or to support workers' organizations by financial or other means, with the object of placing such organizations under the control of employers or employers' organizations, shall be deemed to constitute acts of interference within the meaning of this Article.

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