A—7

2. [lnapplicable.'] 3. Where necessary, in addition to the above enumeration, each member may define the line of ■division which separates industry from commerce and agriculture. Article 2 1. The whole of the staff employed in any industrial undertaking, public or private, or in any branch thereof shall, except as otherwise provided for by the following Articles, enjoy in every period of seven days a period of rest comprising at least twenty-four consecutive hours. 2. This period of rest shall, wherever possible, be granted simultaneously to the whole of the staff of each undertaking. 3. It shall, wherever possible, be fixed so as to coincide with the days already established by the traditions or customs of the country or district. Article 3 Each member may except from the application of the provisions of Article 2 persons employed in industrial undertakings in which only the members of one single family are employed. Article 4 1. Each member may authorize total or partial exceptions (including suspensions or diminutions) from the provisions of Article 2, special regard being had to all proper humanitarian and economic considerations and after consultation with responsible associations of employers and workers, wherever such exist. 2. Such consultation shall not be necessary in the case of exceptions which have already been made under existing legislation. Article 5 Each member shall make, as far as possible, provision for compensatory periods of rest for the suspensions or diminutions made in virtue of Article 4, except in cases where agreements or customs already provide for such periods. Article 6 1. Each member will draw up a list of the exceptions made under Articles 3 and 4 of this Convention and will communicate it to the International Labour Office, and thereafter in every second year any modifications of this list which shall have been made. 2. The International Labour Office will present a'report on this subject to the General Conference of the International Labour Organization. Article 7 In order to facilitate the application of the provisions of this Convention, each employer, director, or manager, shall be obliged—(а) Where the weekly rest is given to the whole of the staff collectively, to make known such days and hours of collective rest by means of notices posted conspicuously in the establishment or any other convenient place, or in any other manner approved by the Government: (б) Where the rest period is not granted to the whole of the staff collectively, to make known, by means of a roster drawn up in accordance with the method approved by the legislation of the country, or by a regulation of the competent authority, the workers or employees subject to a special system of rest, and to indicate that system. APPENDIX 3.—TEXT OF THE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE RIGHT OF ASSOCIATION AND THE SETTLEMENT OF LABOUR DISPUTES IN NON-METROPOLITAN TERRITORIES The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its thirtieth session on 19 June, 1947, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning the right of association and the settlement of labour disputes in non-metropolitan territories, which is included in the third item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,

29