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INDEX. Reduction of Hours of Work — Appendix No. Draft Convention, Textile Industry .. .. .. .. .. • • • • .. 1 Resolution, Textile Industry .. .. .. .. . • • • • • • • .. 2 Resolution, Proposed General Convention .. .. ■. . • • • • • .. 3 Building Regulations—Draft Convention, General Safety Provisions .. .. .... .. .. .. 4 Recommendation, Model Safety Code .. .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 5 Recommendation, Inspection .. .. .. ■ - ■ • • • • • • • .. 6 Recommendation, Co-operation in Accident Prevention .. .. .. .. • • .. 7 Recommendation, Vocational Education .. .. .. . • • • • • • • .. 8 Resolution, Hoisting-appliances .. .. .. • • • • ■ ■ • ■ .. 9 Planning of Public Works in relation to Employment— Recommendation, International Co-operation .. .. . • • • • • • • .. 10 Recommendation, National Planning .. .. • ■ • • • • • • • • .. 11 Resolution, International Co-operation .. .. .. .. • • • • • • .. 12 Minimum Age for Admission to Employment — Draft Convention, Industrial Employment .. .. .. ■ • • • • • .. 13 Draft Convention, Non-industrial Employment .. .. .. • ■ • • • • " Recommendation, Industrial Employment .. .. ■ ■ • • • ■ • • " i« Resolution, Employment outside School Hours .. .... .. .. • • .. 16 Resolution on Various Subjects .. .. • • • • • • • • • • • ■ .. 17 Governing Body of International Labour Organization for 1937-40 .. .. .. • ■ .. 18 APPENDIX I,— REDUCTION OF HOURS OF WORK. DRAFT CONVENTION, TEXTILE INDUSTRY. TEXT OF DRAFT CONVENTION CONCERNING THE REDUCTION OF HOURS OF WORK IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY. The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having met at Geneva in its twenty-third session on 3rd June, 1937 ; Considering that the question of the reduction of hours of work in the textile industry is the second item on the Agenda of the session ; Confirming the principle laid down in the Forty-hour Week Convention, 1935, including the maintenance of the standard of living ; Considering it to be desirable that this principle should be applied by international agreement to the textile industry ; adopts, this twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, the following Draft Convention, which may be cited as the Reduction of Hours of Work (Textiles) Convention, 1937 : Article 1. 1. This Convention applies to — (a) Persons employed in an undertaking which fulfils the condition stated in paragraph 2 of this Article, including persons employed in any branch of such an undertaking which branch does not fulfil that condition ; and (b) Persons employed in a branch of an undertaking which branch fulfils the condition stated in paragraph 2 of this Article, even though the undertaking does not fulfil that condition. 2. The condition referred to in the preceding paragraph is that the undertaking or branch of an undertaking is engaged wholly or mainly in one or more of the series of operations delimited in paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 of this Article in the course of the manufacture of any kind of thread, yarn, twine, cord, rope, netting, or felt, or any woven, piled, knitted, or lacework fabric from any one or more of the following materials : cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp, jute, rayon or other synthetic fibre, or any other textile material whether of vegetable, animal, or mineral origin. 3. The series of operations referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article begins (a) In the case of cotton, with the reception of the bales of ginned cotton for breaking up and cleaning,; . (b) In the case of wool, with the reception of the raw wool for sorting and cleaning (excluding the process of anthrax disinfection) ; (c) In the case of silk, with the reeling of the silk from the cocoon or the steeping of the silk waste :