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500C.115 28th Conference/35: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Wmant) to the Secretary of State

London, December 20, 1943.
[Received December 20—11:18 p.m.]

8861. For State and Labor from Goodrich. Governing Body agreed to hold Conference at Philadelphia, subject to condition specified, on April 20.28 The agenda is as follows:

  • “I. Future policy program and status of the International Labor Organization.
  • II. Recommendations to the United Nations for present and postwar social policy.
  • III. The organization of employment in the transition from war to peace.
  • IV. Social security: principles, and problems arising out of the war.
  • V. Minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories.
  • VI. Reports on the application of conventions.
  • VII. Director’s report.”

Sub-headings omitted from official agenda but will be expanded in a covering note by the Director. Those agreed to under United Nations item were:

(a)
Social aims of economic policy.
(b)
Labor provisions of the peace settlement.
(c)
Labor policy in territory of the Axis powers under military occupation.

Eden addressed afternoon session. Action deferred on industrial committees. After useful discussion Governing Body adjourned this evening. [Goodrich.]

Winant

  1. For a report on the 91st session of the Governing Body of the ILO, December 16–20, 1943, with appendix and documents concerning convocation of the 26th session of the International Labor Conference and other subjects, see International Labour Office, Official Bulletin, vol. XXVI, no. 2, 1 December, 1944. See also Participation of the United States Government in International Conferences, July 1, 1941–June 80, 1945, pp. 94–96.

    For a summary account of participation by the Department of State in the planning of the Conference and a statement of its results, see Department of State Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation, 1939–1945, pp. 185 and 239–240.

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