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The conclusions reached, will be submitted to the various Governments. Revised texts of the Migration for Employment Convention and recommendations were adopted which will form a basis for discussion of the relevant item on the agenda of the thirty-second Session of the Conference (set out hereunder) : (6) Meeting of Social Security Experts, New Zealand, 1950. —In last year's annual report it was mentioned that the Governing Body of the 1.L.0. had decided to reconstitute the Correspondence Committee on Social Insurance. The new Committee is known as the Committee of Social Security Experts. Its first meeting was held in Montreal in May, 1948, and was attended by Mr. B. F. Waters, Director, Social Security Department. The Governing Body has accepted with appreciation the New Zealand Government's invitation to hold the next meeting of the Committee in New Zealand in the early part of 1950. (7) The Thirty-second Session of the International Labour Conference will open in Geneva on Bth June, 1949. The agenda is as follows : I. Director-General's Report. 11. Financial and Budgetary Questions. 111. Reports on the Application of Conventions. IV. Application of the Principles of the Right to Organize and to Bargain Collectively (second discussion). Y. Industrial Relations, Comprising Collective Agreements, Conciliation, and Arbitration, and Co-operation Between Public Authorities and Employers' and Workers' Organizations (first discussion). VI. Labour Clauses in Public Contracts (second discussion). VII. Protection of Wages (second discussion). VIII. Wages : General Report. IX. Vocational Guidance (second discussion). X. Revision of the Fee-charging Employment Agencies Convention, 1933. . XI. Migration for Employment: Revision of the Migration for Employment Convention, 1939, the Migration for Employment Recommendation, 1939, and the Migration for Employment (Co-operation Between States) Recommendation, 1939. XII. Partial Revision of the Social Security (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 (No. 70), the Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 (No. 72), the Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1946 (No. 75), and the Wages, Hours of Work, and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1946 (No. 76). New Zealand will be represented by the following delegation : For the Government— Mr. J. Thorn, High Commissioner for New Zealand in Canada. Mr. H. Parsonage, Assistant Director of Employment. Mr. D. T. C. Brayshay, Senior Inspector of Factories (Adviser). Miss L. Percell, Secretary of Auckland Shop Assistants' Union (Adviser). For the employers— Mr. J. R. Hanlon, Assistant Secretary, New Zealand Employers' Federation. Mr. S. I. McKenzie, Secretary, Manawatu-Wairarapa Employers' Association (Adviser). For the workers Mr. A. W. Croskery, President, New Zealand Federation of Labour. Mr. L. A. Hadley, National Executive Member, Federation of Labour (Adviser). (8) The aim of the 1.L.0. is to foster universal social justice. The summary above shows that the Organization is steadily, though unspectacularly, pursuing this aim, and that in this work New Zealand continues to play its part.

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