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(5) Recognizes that the proposals raise issues of great complexity and difficulty, including, for example, — (i) Questions involving the sovereignty of States ; (ii) The relationship of any such machinery to the proposals under examination by the United Nations for giving effect to a Bill of Rights and establishing machinery for supervising the exercise of other fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, of information and of lawful assembly : (iii) The composition, scope, powers (including powers of enquiry and investigation), and procedure of the proposed machinery : (iv) The authority under which the proposed machinery would act. (6) Considers it essential to give to such questions, which may involve changes in the inter-relationship of States, the detailed examination and careful preparation which they merit and without which any international action would be bound to fail and likely to leave the situation worse than it is at present. (7) Recognizes, however, that the establishment, in consultation with the United Nations, of permanent international machinery may be an indispensable condition for the full observance of freedom of association throughout the world and that any such machinery should, if established, operate under the guarantees provided by the tripartite Constitution of the International Labour Organization. (8) Accordingly requests the Governing Body to examine this question in all its aspects and to report back to the Conference at the thirty-first session in 1948. {g) Resolutions concerning the Agenda of the Next Session of the Conference The Conferencej Having approved the report of the Committee appointed to examine item Y on its agenda, Having in particular approved as general conclusions, with a view to the consultation of Governments, proposals for a Convention, and a Recommendation relating to employment service organization, Having also considered proposals for the revision of the Fee Charging Employment Agencies Convention, 1933 (No. 34), Decides to place on the agenda of its next general session :■ — (1) The question of employment service organization with a view to final decision on a Convention and Recommendation on the subject; and (2) The question of the revision of the Fee Charging Employment Agencies Convention 1933 (No. 34). The Conference, Having approved the report of the Committee appointed to consider the seventh item on its agenda, Decides — (1) To place on the agenda of its next general session the question of freedom of association and of the protection of the right to organize with a view to the adoption of one or several Conventions at that session ; and (2) To place on the agenda of its next general session, as one item for first discussion ; the application of the principles of the right to organize and to bargain collectively, collective agreements, conciliation and arbitration, and cooperation between the public authorities and employers' and workers* organizations. List of Points which might form a Basis of Discussion by the Conference I. Freedom, of Association 1. Desirability of drawing up a proposed international Convention concerning freedom of association.

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