ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS. MEETING AT GENEVA. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, Sept. 13. At a meeting of the Second Committee of the League of Natimis Assembly this committee deals with economic questions—two important resolutions relating to tariffs and coal were submitted in the name of the British delegation. , , , The first of these recommended that a conference of members of the League and non-member States should be held with a view to securing by agreement a general reduction of such protective tariffs as are excessive, and that countries intending to participate should enter into an agreement not to increase their protective tariffs above the present level or to impose new protective duties before the end of 1931, and to examine in the meantime their protective affairs and reduce them to the fullest extent’ possible. The second resolution stated that in view of the urgency of the coal problem, the International Labour Organisation should pursue its investigations into the conditions, hours, and wages in the coal industry without delay, and that the League Council should request the governing body of the International Labour Office to consider the inclusion in the agenda of the International Labour Conference of 1930 questions relative to this problem, with the object of agreeing upon an international council. The resolution further suggested that in order to facilitate the conclusion of an international agreement the governing body should consider the advisableness of convening at an early date a preparatory technical conference, consisting of representatives of the Governments, employers, and Workers of the principal coal-producing countries of Europe, in order to advise as to what questions relating to the conditions of employment in coal mines might be included in the agenda of the International Labour Conference in 1930.