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TRADE PROBLEMSIN WAR CONDITIONSCONFERENCE IN NEW YORKMr, Alured Kelly, until recently president of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers in Australia* and president of the Victoria Chamber of Manufacturers, is employers’ representative to the International Labour Conference, which will commence at New York on October 27and continue for the next 10 clays. He is alo overseas representative tothe governing body of the I.L.O.,which meets immediately prior to the conference,Mr. Kelly said To-day that the pre war conference, which had been held annually from 1019 to 1939, had been attended by representatives of as many as 50 different countries, but was cancelled last year owing to the war. and the present conference was the first held since the war broke out. There would be present this time representatives of all the American States, of Britain and the Dominions, and of Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland andChina. The American States weretaking a great interest in the conference, and last year had held an All-American conference. He stated that, as in the past, the interests represented were those of Governments, employers and employees* the idea being to promote closer relationships between these groups and so help international peace and progress. The coming conference would have to grapple with important aspects of the problems as they were likely to develop after the war.Travelling with Mr. Kelly are the employees’ representative of Australia, Mr. Albert Monk, a member of the Workers' Compensation Boardand president of the Australian Councils Union, and Miss Muriel A. Heagney, Commonwealth Government representative to the conference, who is a prominent advocate for equal pay for men and women.Study of British ProblemsAfter the conference Mr. Kelly will travel to England to make a brief but intensive study of industries which have been partially closed down owing to lack of raw materials, and as a result of being classified as non-essential trades. He said the ^information obtained might be a valuable guide for Australia, asthe fundamental problems beingfaced in Britain were probably similar to those likely to bg encountered in the Dominions. He would investigate the means whereby individual industries were solving the difficultyof keeping alive, ana of manufacturers who had been severely bit by the war. It appeared to be largelya matter of co-operation by groups without much Government assist-
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Auckland Star
Auckland, Auckland, NZ
Sat, Oct 11, 1941
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