The International Labour Conference That there are still 49 nations
which consider it useful to meet once a year for the discussion of their particular diffi- ctilties and for the drafting of international treaties governing specific problems is an encouraging fact. Not only have 49 nations sent complete delegations (representatives of the Government, organised employees and organised workers) to the International Labour Conference which is now in session at Geneva, but some measure of the importance which is attached to the Conference can be obtained from the fact that the Ministers of Labour of seven countries have already visited it—among them Miss Perkins of the United States and Mr. Ernest Brown. Mr. Brown, in his speech on the Director's Report, in words almost identical with those he used last year, urged the importance of a comprehensive raising of agricultural wages. This is certainly one of the major problems facing the modem economic system, and Mr. Brown did well to raise it once again.
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