APPENDIX.—DRAFT ~~*'VENTION CONCERNING THE CREATION OF
MINIM ua wAGE-FIXING MACHINERY?
The General Conference of the International Labor Organization of the
League of Nations,
Having been convened at Geneva by the governing body of the Inter
national Labor Office, and having met in its eleventh session on May 30.
1928, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to
minimum wage-fixing machinery, which is the first item on the agenda of
the session, and :
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a draft
international convention,
adopts, this 16th day of June of the year 1928, the following draft convention
for ratification by the members of the International Labor Organization, in
accordance with the provisions of Part XIII of the treaty of Versailles and of
the corresponding parts of the other treaties of peace:
Article 1

Bach member of the International Labor Organization which ratifies this
convention undertakes to create or maintain machinery whereby minimum
rates of wages can be fixed for workers employed in certain of the trades or
parts of trades (and in particular in home-working trades) in which no arrangements
 exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreement or
otherwise and wages are exceptionally low.
For the purpose of this convention the term * trades” includes manufacture
and commerce.

Article 2

Each member which ratifies this convention shall be free to decide, after
consultation with the organizations, if any, of workers and employers in the
trade or part of trade concerned, in which trades or parts of trades, and in
particular in which home-working trades or parts of such trades, the minimum
wage-fixing machinery referred to in Article 1 shall be applied.
Article 3
Each member which ratifies this convention shall be free to decide the nature
and form of the minimum wage-fixing machinery, and the methods to be followed
 in its operation:
Provided that, (1) Before the machinery is applied in a trade or part of
trade, representatives of the employers and workers concerned, including representatives
 of their respective organizations, if any, shall be consulted as well
as any other persons, being specially qualified for the purpose by their trade
or functions, whom the competent authority deems it expedient to consult.
(2) The employers and workers concerned shall be associated in the operation
 of the machinery, in such manner and to such extent, but in any case in
equal numbers and on equal terms, as may be determined by national laws
or regulations.
(3) Minimum rates of wages which have been fixed shall be binding on the
2mployers and workers concerned so as not to be subject to abatement by
them by individual agreement, nor, except with the general or particular
authorization of the competent authority, by collective agreement.
Article 4

Each member which ratifies this convention shall take the necessary measares,
 by way of a system of supervision and sanctions, to ensure that the emt
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