APPENDIX

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Article 11

The French and English texts of this convention shall both be authentic.

Recommendation Concerning the Application of Minimum 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 International
 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 should take the form of a
recommendation,
adopts, this 16th day of June of the year 1928, the following recommendation,
to be submitted to the members of the International Labor Organization for
consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or
Otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of Part XIII of the treaty of Versailles
 and of the corresponding parts of the other treaties of peace:

The General Conference of the International Labor Organization,
Having adopted a draft convention concerning the creation of minimum
wage-fixing machinewy, and
Desiring +o supplement this draft convention by putting on record for
the guidance of the members certain general principles which, ag present
practice and experience show, produce the most satisfactory results,
recommends that each member should take the following principles and rules
into consideration :

(1) -In order to insure that each member ratifying the convention is in
bossession of the information necessary for a decision upon the application
of minimum wage-fixing machinery, the wages actually paid and the arrangements,
 if any, for the regulation of wages should be ascertained in respect
of any trade or part of trade to which employers or workers therein request
the application of the machinery and furnish information which shows prima
facie that no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages and that
wages are exceptionally low.
(2) Without prejudice to the discretion left to the members by the draft
convention to decide in which trades or parts of trades in their respective
countries it is expedient to apply minimum wage-fixing machinery, special
regard might usefully be had to trades or parts of trades in which women are
ordinarily employed.

(1) The minimum wage-tfixing machinery, whatever form it may take (for
instance, trade boards for individual trades, general boards for groups of
trades, compulsory arbitration tribunals) should operate by way of investigation
into the relevant conditions in the trade or part of trade concerned and con-Sultation
 with the interests primarily and principally affected, that is to say,
the cinployers and workers in the trade or part of trade, whose views on all
matters relating to the fixing of the minimum rates of wages should in any
case be solicited and be given full and equal consideration.
(2) (a) "Yo secure greater authority for the rates that may be fixed,
it should be the general policy that the employers and workers concerned through
representatives equal in number or having equal voting strength, should
jointly take a direct part in the deliberations and decisions of the wagefixing
 body; in any cave, where representation is accorded to one side, the
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