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(2) To facilitate any movements of workers approved in accordance with Article 6 (6) (iv) of the Convention, the employment service, on the request of the national authority directing it and in co-operation where desired with the International Labour Office, should—[a) Collect in co-operation, as appropriate, with other bodies and organizations, information relating to the applications for work and the vacancies which cannot be filled nationally, in order to promote the immigration or emigration of workers able to satisfy as far as possible such applications and vacancies ; (b) Co-operate with other competent authorities, national or foreign, in preparing and applying inter-governmental bilateral, regional, or multilateral agreements relating to migration. APPENDIX No. 6.—RESOLUTION CONCERNING EQUAL REMUNERATION FOR WORK OF EQUAL VALUE The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at San Francisco by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-first Session on 17 June, 1948, and Having considered the Resolution concerning the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women workers adopted on 10 March, 1948, by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and transmitted to the International Labour Organization together with the memorandum on this subject submitted by the World Federation of Trade Unions to the Council, and Recalling that the Constitution of the International Labour Organization affirms that an improvement of conditions of labour is urgently required and directs attention to the recognition of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value as one of the means of improvement, adopts this 7th day of July, 1948, the following Resolutions : 1. The Conference draws the attention of States Members of the International Labour Organization to — (a) The statements on the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value contained in the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, in the Minimum Wage-fixing Machinery Recommendation, 1928, and in resolutions adopted at several sessions of the Conference and at Regional Conferences and Meetings of the International Labour Organization ; (b) The importance of taking appropriate measures to secure the effective application of this principle in the case of men and women workers, including in particular measures to extend the opportunities for employment available to women workers, and the provision of adequate facilities for vocational and technical training of women. 2. The Conference invites the Governing Body to request the Industrial Committees, Regional Conferences and other bodies meeting under the auspices of the International Labour Organization to take fully into account, in dealing with questions concerning the employment of women and girls, the need to secure the recognition of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value and the need for action to promote the application of this principle. 3. The Conference invites the Governing Body to instruct the International Labour Office to continue and develop its studies and inquiries on the subject with a view to facilitating the consideration by the Conference, by the Industrial Committees and by

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