The I.L.O. in London The Governing Body of the International
Labour Office, which will meet in London on the first three days of next week, will discuss subjects as varied as the conditions of forestry workers, the maximum weight of loads to be carried by men, and the payment of indemnities to workers on dismissal. The establishment of an International Tripartite TeChnical Committee will be proposed, and a committee which has been studying the causes and prevention of silicosis —a growing industrial disease—will report. But the most important discussions will deal with unemployment, in particular as the problem is affected by the method of public works. Last year's International Labour Conference invited Governments to pass on annually to the I.L.O. information concerning the public works undertaken or planned in their territories. Tfiri report by the International Public Works Committee on how the States members are to do this will be the starting-point for next week's discussions on the subject. There are the seeds of greater things in this. Many countries, including the United States, which is a full member of the I.L.O., are intensely interested in considering how public works may be made to contribute to the development of higher standards of life throughout the world, which never stood in more need of international co-operation on all subjects.
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