No. 155. NOTES EXCHANGED ON THE RUSSIAN-POLISH SITUATION BY THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE AND Poland. OCTOBER, 1920 156. PRESENTATION OF THE SAINT-GAUDENS STATUE OF LINCOLN TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE, JULY 28, 1920. NOVEMBER, 1920 Page 461 481 157. ORGANIZATION AND DRAFT SCHEME OF THE PERMA- INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION Published monthly by the American Association for International Conciliation. Post office, February 23, 1909, under act of July 16, 1894. 47 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION SUB-STATION 84 (407 WEST 117TH STREET) NEW YORK CITY I THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONFERENCE DRAFT CONVENTION LIMITING THE HOURS OF WORK IN The General Conference of the International Labor Organization of the League of Nations, Having been convened at Washington by the Government of the United States of America, on the 29th day of October, 1919, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "application of principle of the 8-hours day or the 48-hours week," which is the first item in the agenda for the Washington meeting of the Conference, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a draft international convention, Adopts the following Draft Convention for ratification by the Members of the International Labor Organization, in accordance with the Labor Part of the Treaty of Versailles of 28 June, 1919, and of the Treaty of St. Germain of 10 September, 1919: ARTICLE I For the purpose of this Convention, the term "industrial undertaking" includes particularly: (a) Mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth. (b) Industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken 'The official report of the Draft Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the International Labor Conference of the League of Nations, Washington, D. C., October 29 to November 29, 1919. up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed; including shipbuilding and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind. (c) Construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbor, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gas work, water work or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure. (d) Transport of passengers, or goods, by road, rail, sea or inland waterway, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves or warehouses, but excluding transport by hand. The provisions relative to transport by sea and on inland waterways shall be determined by a special conference dealing with employment at sea and on inland waterways. The competent authority in each country shall define the line of division which separates industry from commerce and agriculture. ARTICLE 2 The working hours of persons employed in any public or private industrial undertaking or in any branch thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed, shall not exceed eight in the day and forty-eight in the week, with the exceptions hereinafter provided for. (a) The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to persons holding positions of supervision or management, nor to persons employed in a confidential capacity. (b) Where by law, custom, or agreement between employers' and workers' organizations, or, where no such organizations exist between employers' and workers' representatives, the hours of work on one or more days of the week are less than eight, the limit of eight hours may be exceeded on the remaining days of the week by the sanction of the competent public authority, or by agreement between such organizations or representatives; provided, however, that in no case under the provisions of this paragraph shall the daily limit of eight hours be exceeded by more than one hour. (c) Where persons are employed in shifts it shall be permissible to employ persons in excess of eight hours in any one day and |