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THE INTER- NATIONAL
LABOUR CON- FERENCE
NINTH SESSION.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 57 (27). Con- clusion 12.)
12. The Cabinet had before them a Memorandum
by the Minister of Labour (Paper C.P.-246 (28))
containing proposals, drawn up in consultation with
the Board of Trade, as to the action to be taken
by the Government in regard to the Draft Conven-
tions and Recommendations adopted by the Inter-
national Labour Conference which was held at Geneva
in June, 1926.
In regard to the Draft Convention concerning Seamen's Articles of Agreement, it was proposed
to inform the International Labour Office of the
objections taken by British shipowners and seamen
to Article 5, which provides that the document to
be issued to every seaman, containing a record of his employment on board the vessel, should not
contain any statement as to the quality of the seaman's work, and stating that His Majesty's
Government would be prepared to ratify the Convention but for this provision, which, in view of the
preference shown by both sides of the industry for the existing system, it was not prepared to
adopt.
In regard to the Draft Convention concerning the Repatriation of Seamen, it was proposed that His Majesty's Government should intimate that it is
prepared to ratify the Draft Convention as soon as
at least six of the other principal Maritime Powers
also are prepared to ratify.
In regard to the Recommendation concerning the Repatriation of Masters and Apprentices, it was proposed to inform the Secretary-General of the
League of Nations that the question of introducing legislation to provide for the only point not
existing legislation, namely, the
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