Industrial and Labour Information, Volume 22

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International Labour Office, 1927 - Labor

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Page 253 - Convention concerning equality of treatment for national and foreign workers as regards workmen's compensation for accidents (1925); and the Convention concerning the simplification of the inspection of emigrants on board ship (1926).
Page 120 - The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. Fourth. The adoption of an eight hours day or a forty-eight hours week as the standard to be aimed at where it has not already been attained.
Page 210 - Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those...
Page 386 - It is hereby declared (a) that any strike is illegal if it — (i) has any object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the strikers are engaged ; and (ii) is a strike designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by inflicting hardship upon the community...
Page 388 - Act that he objects to contribute; and (b) that a member who is exempt from the obligation to contribute to the political fund of the union shall not be excluded from any benefits of the union, or placed in any respect either directly or indirectly under any disability or...
Page 387 - ... abstain from working, if they so attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace...
Page 386 - trade dispute" means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person...
Page 387 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 386 - ... he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
Page 387 - In this section the expression "to intimidate" means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property, and the expression "injury...

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