122 MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

ployers and workers concerned are informed of the minimum rates of wages
in force and that wages are not paid at less than these rates in cases where
they are applicable.
A worker to whom the minimum rates are applicable and who has been paid
wages at less than these rates shall be entitled to recover, by judicial or other
legalized proceedings, the amount by which he has been underpaid, subject
to such limitation of time as may be determined by national laws or
regulations.

Article 5

Each member which ratifies this convention shall communicate annually to
the International Labor Office a general statement giving a list of the trades or
parts of trades in which the minimum wage-fixing machinery has been applied,
indicating the methods as well as the results of the application of the machinery
 and, in summary form, the approximate numbers of workers covered,
the minimum rates of wages fixed, and the more important of the other conditions,
 if any, established relevant to the minimum rates.
Article 6

The formal ratifications of this convention under the conditions set forth in
Part XIII of the treaty of Versailles and in the corresponding parts of the
other treaties of peace shall be communicated to the secretary-general of the
League of Nations for registration.
Article 7

This convention shall be binding only upon those members whose ratifications
 have been registered with the secretariat.
It shall come into force 12 months after the date on which the ratifications
of two members of the International Labor Organization have been registered
with the secretary-general.
Thereafter, this convention shall come into force for any member 12 months
after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 8

As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labor
Organization have been registered with the secretariat, the secretary general of
che League of Nations shall so notify all the members of the International Labor
Organization, He shall likewise notify them of the registration of ratifications
which may be communicated subsequently by other members of the organization.

Article 9

A member which has ratified this convention may denounce it after the
expiration of 10 years from the date on which the convention first comes
into force, by an act communicated to the secretary general of the League
of Nations for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one
year after the date on which it is registered with the secretariat.
Each member which has ratified this convention and which does not, within
the year following the expiration of the period of 10 years mentioned in the
preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this
article, will be bound for another period of five years and, thereafter, may
denounce this convention at the expiration of each period of five years under
Lhe terms provided for in this artiele.

Article 10

At least once in 10 years the governing body of the International Labor
Office shall present to the general conference g report on the working of this
convention and shall consider the desirability of placing on the agenda of
the conference the question of its revision or modification.