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for travel to and from work, and for the accommodation of workers employed at a distance from their homes, and such other services, amenities, and facilities as contribute to improve the conditions under which workers are employed; and ' 2. Requests the Governing Body—(a) To instruct the International Labour Office to expand its studies of the administration and working of such services, facilities, and amenities ; (b) To consider the desirability of placing the question, or such aspects of it as may be appropriate, on the agenda of an early session of the Conference ; and (c) To refer to future Regional Conferences and to the Industrial Committees for consideration such aspects of the question as may present special problems in particular regions or industries. (c) Resolution concerning Maintenance or Rights op Migrant Workers under Social Insurance Schemes Whereas the General Conference of the International Labour Organization adopted at its nineteenth session a Convention (No. 48), concerning the establishment of an international scheme for the maintenance of rights under invalidity, old-age, widows' and orphans insurance ; Whereas by the adoption of this Convention the General Conference of the International Labour Organization thereby recognized as useful and equitable the establishment by the members of the Organization of standards guaranteeing to migrants and their dependants the maintenance of rights acquired with insurance institutions, either in a single country or in two or more countries successively or alternately; Whereas the adoption of this Convention represented a measure of social progress intended to protect migrants and their dependants against occupational and social risks and against poverty; Whereas social protection of migrants in the spirit of the said Convention is of quite special importance at present, since the recent war has caused a considerable increase in the migration of wage-earners from one country to another and the effects of this increase are still being felt, The Conference— Requests the Governing Body to have prepared as soon as possible a periodical report on the application of the above-mentioned Convention with a view to re-examining the situation and ascertaining the difficulties which have impeded ratification of the Convention. (d) Resolution concerning the Scope op Labour Inspection Whereas the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947, applies only to undertakings in respect of which legal provisions for the protection of workers are enforceable by labour inspection; Whereas this scope of application may leave Governments free to exclude large numbers of workers from the application of the Convention; and Whereas all workers in industrial and commercial undertakings are in need of the protection afforded by the appointment of an inspectorate to enforce proper conditions of work; The thirtieth session of the International Labour Conference, — Urges the Governments to apply to all workers employed in industrial and commercial undertakings the legal provisions for the protection of workers which are enforceable by labour inspection.

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