INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE
.INTERNATIONAL DU TRAVAIL
BUREAU
OFICINA INTERNACIONAL DEL TRABAJO
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182nd Session
GOVERNING BODY
CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRA,TION
CONSEJO DE ADMINISTRASION
COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL
COMMITTEES
Geneva,
February-l{a.rch
l97l
COMITE DES COMMISSIONS
COMISION DE COMISIONES OE
D'INOUSTRIE
INDUSTRIA
Fourth Itern on the
Agenda
PERIODIC REPOBTS ON TI{E EFItrCT GIVEN
TO REQUESTS OF I$DUSTRIAI
COMMITTEE- TYPE I'IEETINGS
(c)
EIGIITE SESSI0N oF
Iffi
TE)CIITES C0MMITTEE
1. The reports, coneluslons and resolutlons aCopted by the
Elghth Sesslgn of the Textiles Cornmittee (Geneva, 29 April10 May 1968)r were consl{ered by the Governing Bod.y at lts 1?3rd
Sesslon.(Noveuber 1968).2 The present report is subnitted in
accordance with the request made by the Gcverning Body at its
150th Sesslon (November 1964) that the Director-General should
submit to the Cornmittee on Industrial Comnlttees, two years after
consideration by the Governing Body of th.e most recent concluslons of an Ind.ustriaL Committee, a report on the aqtlon taken on
requests of the Committee which ioncern the Office.r
* These texts were published in tho ILO Otficle.I_-EUll-elio,
vol. LII, No. I, L969r pb. 73-7!7.
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2. Ihe Iexttl-es Commltteer ln paragraph 1? of Concl-uslons
N9. 55r requested the competent'j.nteinationit orsanisations to
glve or to continue to glve facllities and. where posslble. to
increase e:rlsting faeilftles for the training- oi t-ectrnici.irs-and
quperviFory and,. uanagerial personnel from th6 te:rtlle lnduCtry tn
developing countrles.
3. The Covernlng Body authorlsed the Dtrector-General to
glve effect to the wiShes b:rpressed, by the corudttle.
1- The ILO has contlnued to glve. nlthln the framework of
1ts technical co-operatlon aetivitiesr'facilltiei for
of technicLans and, supenrtsory and mairagerlal personnel[r,"-lr"i"f"e
fron the
textlle industry ln developln! countrleb.
Igainlne ln_general
5. A largg share of the ILO! s teehntcal co-operation work
has been d.evoled_ {yrlrre the past d,ecade to helplng- d.eveloping
countrtes ln uFrallrg up. nationar vocatlonar tialiing sysiemi.
nany- countrles ttrts phase of bulldlng up the basld tirtrastructure
In
for tralning ls overl but tt ls stlll continrrlng ln other countries.
At pleq-ent there are about twenty such projects in operatlon and
about fifteen more are ln dlfferent stages-of preparition. As
these natlonal vocational trainlng systems covbr the tralnlng of
personnel for the whole range of econouolc actlvitles in the countrles concerned, the te:rtile lndustry w111 also benefit f:ron
the Lncreaslng tnprovenent of the tralnfirg systems.
6. During the past two years no teehnical co-operatlon proJeets speelflcally rel-ating to tralnlng in the textlie industiy
were carried. out as no requests for sueh projects were received
lrom governments. Recently, however, two requests were received.,
fTgp Iurkey_ and the Unlted Aiab Republle respectlvely, and. these '
yPlI. probably result tn the settin! up of pr6Jects firi trainlng ln
the texblle tndustry.
?. In additlon to the actlon indicated above. th.e various
publlcati-ons of the ILO, particularly the CIRF pubhcations whlch
are d.evoted to vocatlonal trai.nlng, have provlded. efficient means
of wldely dlsseminating up-to-dat6'informitlon on alr aspects of
vocatlonal tralnlng throughout the worId..
.
Tear-:fiqe_o-f-_Teciui_qlanq_apd
r'raneg.u.4-Perqruql
8. Within the framework of the ItO Technical Co-operation
Programme assistance 1s gi'ren to a number of developing countries
in the traiulng of managerlal personnel at a1I level-s, and 1n some
cases j.n that of technical personnel. Although teehnieal- cooperation activities are, in genetral, not dlreeted. to any parti-cular industry, there are soms projects which cover the textil-e
lnd.ustry" The project corurected with the National Leather and
Textile Institute in Moroeco 1s one example. Projects wh-ich help
1n the training of managerial and. technical personnel in the
textile lndustry are in operation in about ten countries. These
projects covel: technical- trainlng 1n spinning, weavlng and finlshing as well as tralning in lndustrial englneering technlques and
functional (accounbingr marketing, .and general management) train1ng. In the case oll one project- (1n South Korea), provislon 1s
nad.e for giving special fellowships in the textile lndustr.y.
AJ.so, the textile ind.ustry in several eountrles has .benefited. from
training facilities made available to the related clothing and.
leather- good s ind.ustries,
9. In addition, a va:riety of functlonal and. integrated
; ilanagement tralning facillties are provided by current ItO projects
'rmd.er operatlon 1n some fifty count,rles from which the personnel
tho textj-le indu-stry also benefit" These facilities cover
' "in
sueh fields as r-rti.lisaflon of eomputers for uanagement purposes,
utilisatlon of operatj-ons research an<1 of behavioural seiences.
Special nention may be made of the asslstance given to d.eveloping
cor:ntries by'provi-d.i-ng facilitles and expert_ise 1'or tral?ing 1p
ttiulanagement.-Informatlon Systemsrt - Computer Basedrr. This asslstance is designed. to help management in the optimum utilisation of
computers aJready exl.sting i.n a eountry. In soure Other casest
'projects
although not staffed by specialists for the sole purpose
of provlding management training in the textile lndustry have been
able to train management in textile factories through functional
management courses and advlsory and eonsultanby services.
;
Techqrcal Co-_ol?eratiQn Act i" ij.i-gg
10.Inparagraph59ofConc].usi.onsNc.55theCommittee
invited. the Governing Bod.y to request the Director-General to provid.e, within the franework of the ILOr s technical 'co-operation
progiarres, teeLrnj.eal assistance to the textile industry, includ.ing
i.ts suall-3cale seetor, ln Cea.-l-j-ng with .Labour problems in d.eveloping countries in a fi.mber of field.s specified in th9 paragraph.
n iimltar suggestj-on was also mad.e in paragraph 3! of Conel-u.sions
No. 56, in whieh the Cornnittee 1'sssmm€nded that the 1L0 should. at
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their recluest grant teehnieal assj-stanee to the developi-ng eountrj-es
with regard. to problems arlslng in eonnectlon with struetural and
technologi.cal changes ln the textil.e ind.ustry.
11. The Governing Body ?eque$ted the Director-'General, to
take account of the wishes e.xpressed by the Committee 1n d.eveloping
th.e work programrne of the 0:ffice 1n the fierd of technlcal cooperatlon act,ivitle s.
L2. The ILO has contlnu.ed to give teehnlcal assistance to
ind.ustry d.u::ing th.e period. under report. Reference is
textile
the
(see paragraphs 5, 6, B and 9 above) to certain
elsev,'here
made
aspects of the assistanee gl.ven with reference to some partieular
problems connec'becl w'ith the developuent of the textile industry,
A brief aceount of certai.n other aspects of technlcal co-operat:on
actlvities is given below.
proiects relating to the
13. Among the more s1lccessful.
j-oned.
the one corureeted with the
textile ind.ustry may be men't
Textile Centre set up as part of the Institute for Instructor
Training for Leather ancl Textile hbrkers in Fez, Iviorocco. This
project has been extended. until m-Ld.-L91L. Other continuing projects are those in the United Arab Repu.blic and Uruguay. In the
United Arab Republie, as a result of assi.stanee gr:vgn !y an 9xp?Itr
undertakings in the iexJll-e industry have iraproved their prod.uctivity. In-Uruguay the techni-ca.l assi.stance project relating to the
textile i"nd.ustry was scl.ected by the Goverr.unent as the most successfu1 project 1n terms of benefi.ts for the eountry in general and
for i.ts Prod.uetivlty Institute 1n partlcular. A request has been
recej-ved for t.he expansion of technical assistanee in the ind.ust;ry
in this eountry, and. it is plarured to send. a special misslon in
19?1 to ri.raw ui'tfre necessary de'tails of work. It is expected.
that in Iran, as part of a new management d.eveloprnent P19i"?tz
speclal atteirtion w1]1 be paid to th.e needs of the textrl-e industry
in a specific region. A project for the Trair:-lng of ivJanagers and
for giving fellowships for the national managerial sta"ff in the
textile industry in the Republlc of Yemen is rurd.er consid.eration.
The ILO is also eollaborating with UNID0 in the runnlng of a technj-ca1 co-operation project coneerned. with the development of the
jute ind.ustry in Pakisban.
!4. A number of technical co-operation projects are specifiindustry.
cally concerned with the small--scale sector cf the te:ctilej-n
Mauritania
proiects
mad,e
the
of
may
be
mention
In this connection
and Syrj.a rel-ating to the produetion of carpe!s, which continued.
to op6rate during-the period. under report. In'iulauritaniujob.
,u carpetprovid,e
opporaS
a
means
to
started
weaving centre, originally
-has
a+.d-produetlon
a
trainin$
into
developed
tunities for women,
eentre. Ihree erlerts are at present attached. to this project.
In Syrla an expert-haC been giving teehnical assistance in the
d.eveiopment of- carpet weaving. the activlties were earried. out in
-5a mxno..er of artisan eentles Spread al-I oVer the country. A proJect reiating to carpet
-an weattng was also started in tebanon in
exigtlnE carPe! centre ?s a sta.rtlng -polnt
ianuary 7g7O-, uslng
and. in deslgn
in ordiir to bommence trainlrr^g in weavlng technlgues
and, training in productioR., An ILO e:rpert'nas sent to Iraq at
the beginnlng of-I9?0 to explore the posslbility fdr the establishment of a date.palnr fibre.processing lndustry'on a cott,age basist
and a further req.uest has been reeeived. from the Goverruoent to
folIow up the expe3f't s findfngs; In Ihalland the Textile Division
of the Sirall Indiistrles Servl6e Instibute, set up ln tr968, offers
theoretical and practical trainlng to tecirnicians and. managers of
snall textile und,ertakings.
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!{grk eJ !ilqmen-I.eJ$119-WorkelE
15. In para'graph 14 of Concluslons No. 55, the Comnittee
invlted. the Governing Body to consid.er the possibility of revisl,ng
lnternational standards relatlng to the night .work of wonen, 1r
changes 1n the textile
the flght of structural and technologlcal'by
lnd,ustiy. The same suggestlon was nade the Cornmi ttee ln paragraph 43 of Conclusions i{o. 55.
16. In regard to the effect to be given to thg above
suggestlon, the-Dtreetor-General had proposed that it should be
br5[eht to'the Govern:ing Body's attention so that,lt wag kept ln
mind-when the Governing'Body established'the agend,a of future
sesslons Of the. Conference or asked. goverfirents to sUpply reports
u,nd.er artlcle 19 of the Constitution.
I7. The Governing Bod.y .took note of the views expressed !y
the Committee coneernlng thi: posslbility of revlslng the existlng
'
.
.
lnternational stand,ards whieh related to night work of
women
workers.
standard.st
18. the question of revlslng these international
(Revised),
(Women)
particular
Work
Convention
Night
the
and ln
L948 (No. 89)r 1s a^uong the subjects included ln the long;1s3,
progranme of ttre Office for the period 1972-77.
19. In regard to the other.courses of actj.on suggested above,
as an
lt has not.been possible to. constder lncluding this subject
priorLtles
.the
of
thq
elgenda.for',the Conference ln vlew
item of
20. The nunber of subjects j.n respeet of whlch:reports on
ln
ratified Conventlons and on Recornmeindations can be requested.
therefore
given year 1s necessarlly very llmlted. It beeoaoes
unany
6*
necessary to, take account of over-all priorities i.n suggestlng
subjects ln respect of wtrieh governments night be calIed. upon to
supply reports. Thus the cholce of lnstrunents on whlch reports
und.er artiele 19 of the Constltution are to be requested. from
goverrunents for J-972-73 has been linlted to two major subJects,
namely freedom of association and termination of employment. -It
was, however, suggested in a paper submitted by the Office to the
Committee on Stand.ing 0rders and the Applicatlon of Conventions
and Reeommendatlons that other toplcs could in the years to eome
be envisaged. for such reportsl including in particular the nightwork Conventiorls.
R.e
scgrcb
lnto !.teleriaf wo-rkine
C-oqdi-tions
21. In paragraph 1? of Conclusions No. 56 the Committee
invited the Governlng Bod.y to request the Di.rector-General to cooperate fully wlth the competent bod,les whlch were cond.ucti-ng
research into material working cond.itions ln the textile industry
in the various countrj.es and, to examine how the Office might usefully contribute to the co-ordination of such research and to the
publieation of lts results. In paragraph 20 of the same conclusions the Commi ttee also lnvlted the Governing Body to consi-d.er
the possibility of setting up a worklng party and. of holding
seminars for the purpose of studying the measures to be taken
to combat noise in the textile ind.ustry and its effeets, and of
exanining how the Office could. contrlbute to the co-ordination of
medlcal researeh in this field and the publlcatlon of lts results.
22. The Governing Body requested the Director-General to
take into account the above suggestions when drawing up the work
programme of the Office 1n the field of oceupational safety and
health.
23, The question of, noj.se created. by certain operatlons as
also of noi-se ln workplaces has been engaging the attention of the
ILO for the past several years. Thls questlon was one of the
items on the agend.a of a slmposir:m cond,ucted. in Rome in September
1968 by the ILO in collaboration with the Italian Institute for
the Prevention of Accidents and 0ccupational Dlseases. During
this symposium a general report and several papers on particular
aspects of the questlon of noise were submitted. and discussed.
These d.ocunents, some of which are of interest to the textile
industry, will be published. in due course.
2^,, The questlon of noj-se in general and of some specific
aspeets relating to the textile ind.ustry will also be the subject
of a series of studies whieh will appear shortly in the Inlqrnaligqa]
!ebg3rgj_g!gg. These stud.ies will eover, among other things,
action taken in certaln countries and. in certain industrial sectors
to combat nolse.
7Ueq_g_qre q__t .o__D.eel .wi
F""tffi-s-
thJedunsla_qcy
. 25. In paragraph
32 of Conclusions No. 56, the Comnittee
the
Crovernlng
Body
lnvited
to lnstruct the Director-General to
assemble fu1I infor'nation on measures taken in different countrles
to d.eal wlth red.und.ancy probLems and'on the techniques followed ln
eertain countries for forecastlng the development of enplolment 1n
the textile lnd.ustry.
' 26. The Governing Body requested the Dlreetor-General to take
accor:rrt of the wlshes e:(pressed by the Coqrnittee on this matter.
27 , Information on the measures taken to d.eal with red.rrnd.ancy
'ln lndustry i.n gegeraL and on the developroent of techniques for
forecastlng manpower supply and demand is assembled by the Offlce
as. part of 1ts regular work. This work has an lupact on the
textil-e lnd,ustry although no studles relatlng speclfically to the
industry have been undertakelr.
Vo
catlonal
T
{a.1trl_ns qrl<l_Bet Ee[LgtBe
28. In paragraph 42 of, Coneluslons No. 56 the ILO was
requested to strengthen its acti.vlties with regard to vocatlonal
training and. retrai-ning of textiLe workers.
29. Mention was made in paragraphs 5-9 above of the measures
taken by the 0ffice in the field. of training. In addltion, the
ILO has- under eonsid.eratlon a proJect for txrdertaking stud.ies on
the varj-ous aspeets of trainlng of ad.ults, lncludlng their retrainlng where such retrainlng ls needed owing to structural and
technological changes. It i5 lntended that these stud.les wi}l
also eveitually cover the texbi.le lndustryo
Intggnatrqnal
Tgade
30. Paragraph 2.of Resolutlon No. 33 eoneernlng tnternational
trad,e and. socidt Stanaards 1n the textlle ind.ustry adopted at'the
Commltteets Fourth Session (Geneva. 1953), and Re-solution No. 52
concern^ing expand,ing trad.e and the' soelal'effects of technologf gal
d.evelopnents adopted at its Seventh Sessj.on were anong those whj-ch
the Committee consid.ered.'should. continue' to receive the attention
of the Office.
31, The Office has followed d.evelopments in thls fleld. An
ILO observer has participated. in meetings of the GATT Cotton Texti.le
Qemmi
ttee.
32, Pollci.es 1n regard to tariffs and non-tariff trade
barrlers are of lnterest to the ILO because of their implications
for labour in both the advanced. and. the d.eveloplng countries.
The openlng of markets to imports of manufaeture::s from d.eveloping
countries would., among other things, create opporttxrities for produetive employnent in those countries., At the same tlme it might
lead to labour displacement in the advanced countries. The ILO
lntends to eond.uet studies in both aspects of the euaployment probleur
in relatlon to trad.e poliey under lts World Employment Progrartrme.
33. A prelimlnary study was prepared by the Offlce for the
Eighth Session of the Senior Economic Advisers to ECE Governnents
(November 1970), on the quantitative effects of removal or reduction
of trade barriers against imports of manufacture from d.eveloping
countries on l-abour di-splacement in Etrropean and North American
industrialised. countries. It should be pointed. out, however, that
the estlmates arrived at in this study are very tentative and
further research is necessary before more d.efinite conclusions can
be reached..
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34. fhs Qqmmittee d.ecj-ded to keep Resolutlon No. 6 coneerning
fuII employnent, adopted. at its Flrst Sessi-on, as one of the resolutions which should contlnue to recei"ve the attention of the Offlce.
Thls resoluti-on indicated, among other things, the necessity of
maitlng plans which woul-d. becure full employment to textile workers
throughout the wor1d. It urged the full-est eo-operation between
goverrunents, employers and workers in the textlle industry in
different corrntrles for the solutlon of the problem of fulI employment and. also suggested that the resources of raw materials and
equipment shoul-d be fu1ly utilised through measures of internatlonal
eo-operation.
The World Eroployment Progranme, which ai-ms at making the
promotion of ful-I, productive and. freely-ehosen employment a major
objective of development strategy throughout the world commurr-lty,
und.oubtedly goes beyond. the type of actlon whj-ch was envisaged. at
the time of the ad.option of this resolutj-on. However, in most
eountries employnen! plans lmpIy a eertaln d.egree of lndustrial and
35.
occupatlonal mobllity on the part of the labour force.
clreumstances maintenanee
ia the textile ind.ustry
of stable or rislng levels of
may
In
some
emplolrment
not be an appropriate objective of
- 9.polilcy; in such casgsl ,o.ction is d.ireeted. toward.s providing elcpq4ding produetive emplolroent opportr:nities in other sectors and, 1n
case of red.,mdancies, towards faeilitating retraining for and placement in such other sectors.
Stud.y on Byssi.nosi-s
36. .In Reso].utlqn No. 58 the Coruni.ttee lnvited. the Governing
to re-qu.est ,the Director-General to rmdertake a speeial stud.yof the prevalenee of byssinosis among textile workers 1n the varlous
Body
countrie s.
37. The Governing Bod.y authorised. the Director-General to take
into aecount the views explessed. py the Committee in drawing up the
programme of work of the Office in the field- of oceupationat safety
and health.
rpqsSibillty of und.ertaking such' a'study has been under
consideration by the ILO during the past few years..: Whi1e,.1t has
not been pogs;-b-ie to unelertake-a spe-cla1 study of the prevalence of'
byssinosis.,in the textil-e industry, certain actlvlties bearing gn
the subjeet hAv_e,bgen,earried ou.t. Thus a Meeting: of Expe'rts ijn
Respiratory Funct_ion Tests held in Geneva 1n 1965 gave due conslderation to this:.subjeet qnd a nuraber of articJes concernlng fibres and
vegetable dust wil-l,,be included in the. Encyclopaedla on 0ccupationa.l
Ueattn and $afet51. , The IL0-. is working in el,ose collaboratiin:r,rith
the Permanent CommisSlon and the fnternational- Assbclation of 0ccupational Health, ,This,Copmission organised. a "'symposlrrro on
question,of
byssinosls at ALicante
Alicante (Spaln) 1n 1968. '- The question
of byssinosis
b
International Congr6rs:s'dn'OceupationalCongres:s'.o-n'Obeuriational
was also examined
ned at t}le
the trnternational
Heal-th (Tokyo, September 1958)'in which the It 0 partici.pated."
Ihe
problem of r:ysslnosls, its prevalence among textile. worke,f.sr, its.
patholeg.i-caL characieristies, dnd curuent id.eas i.n regard.ito ptrophylactic..ueasures will be the suloject of a report .whXch will. be
subnitted to the Fourth International Conferenie or! Pneumoeonrioseg
tobeheldfrom27Septemberto20ctober1971..xnaddition,.a
number of other papers dealing with the various aspects
of bysslnosi-s
d.lscussion. . 'A1I th6 relewill- be'submitted". to,the Conference
fdr
vant d.ocuments relating to the -Conference wil-l be published. and
conmurr-icated tc governments and the interested organisations
38..
T-he
39.,. ln Resolrition No'.'54 the Committee, among other things,
invited the Governlng Body to lnstruct the Directoi-General io",x.a"rtake research concerningbducationaL leaVe: in the textile lndustry.
10
The Governing Body authorlsed. the Dlrector-Genera1 to bear in mind.
the wishes expressed by the Committee in drawing up the programme
of work of the Office.
40, In eonnection with the proposals for the agend.a of the
57th (tglZ) Session of the International Labour Conference, the
Dlrector-General submitted to the Governing Body at its 18lst
Sesslon (November t970) a law and. practlce report relating to
measures whlch enable adu]t workers to attend. ed.ucational- courses
whiLe continulng their normal emplo5nnent. Thls question will be
the subject of further study in connectlon with the propoqal-s to
be submitted. to the Governing Body regardlng the agend.a of the s8th
(19?3) Session of the Conference.
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Lulgre Wgrk,qoncer pin-s tLe Ie;ti1e--In-euglly
47. In the Resolution (No. 60) eoncerning its future work,
the Committee invlted, the Governing Body to give conslderatlon to
a nr.urber of subjects when deciding upon the agenda of its Nlnth
Session and. to take such other appropriate steps ineluding the convening of tripartite reglonal meetingsr es might be thought necessary for the undertaking of studles and inquirles rel-ating to-those
subjects. The subjects enumerated were; (i) fSSislatlon and
oth6r regulations concerning mlnlnum wages and their admlnlstration
ln the t6xtile industry; (ij-) scientlfic organisati-on of work in
the textile ind.ustry, lt being und.erstood that this subjeet should
cover method.s and piinciples of wage d.etermination, the effect of
work study and job-evaluation upon the worker and. worE-opportunlties and the roie of trad.e unions in these mattersl (iii) social
security schemes and welfare facilities 1n the tertile ind.ustry;
(iv) saiety, health and hyglene in the textile industry; (v) income
seeilrity :-n'tne light of structural ehanges in the textile industltsi
an6 (vi) the soclal implications of the changing pattern of textile
production consequent upon the use of materials and. flbres other
than natural fibres.
the Resol-u42. In addition, the Coruoittee also d.ecided that
Resolution (No. 39) concerning the study of r,,rage systems and the
used
tlon (No. 46) concerning an lnquiry into the work study method.s
in the textile ind.ustry should. also continue to receive the attention
of the Office.
43. The Governlng Body requested. the Director-General to bear
in mind. the wishes expressed, by the Committee when drawlng up the
future progralume of work of the Office.
develop44. In the light of the above requests and. subsequent
proposals
progranme
up
drawn
0ffice
has
the
ind.ustry,
ments 1n the
relating to the .textile industry for L972-77,
45. In the meantlme the 0ffice has already undertaken sone
stud.ies and inqulries 1n respoase to the Commltteers requests.
46. Werk $tgdv li_glhq4sr The 0fflee has compJeted. an inquiry
lnto the woik study methods psed 1n the terbile industry. . The
result of this inquiry.will be publlshed in a suitable form ,ln due
eourse. This study also contains a brief revj-ew of the fuopact of
work study,techniques on paynent by resuS-ts wage systems'
.
i
47. Waeg--gg?tegg, The Office has completed a comparative
study of wage systems 1n the textile industry. The scope of thls
study Includ,es an exanlnatlon of the problem of equal pay for work
of eqr:^ql value. It is planned to elaborate durlng 1971 two
aspects of, the comparatiVe stud.y, nameiy ineentives for and. wages
of yorxrg workers in the textile lndustry.
48. l{gltare- JgEli-tlesr The 0fflee has published a survey
based' on reports recelved' fron governf,lents 'txrder artlcle. 19 of the
Constltutioir on the effeet given to folT Reconmendations (Nos. -97 t L
1.12, 102, 11.5) dealing with health, welfare and, housing of.workers.
The-scope cf this slrrvey covers worirers engaged. in the various
lndustries lncluding the textile industry. A report on remunet&tlon and conditlons of work 1n relation to economj-c d.evelopment,
"submitted to the Nlnth Conference of American States liembe.rs o.f
the ILO (Caracas, Aprl1 1970), d.eals also with.y'elfare facillties
1n the textile indullry i" th6 American reglon.2 It is expected
that another ,study will be undertaken in 1971 d.ealing nrlth welfare
facllities available to workers and thelr faulfies both in the
individual r:ndertaklngs and. eollectively in a number of undertakings 1n ind.ustry in $eneral, including the,textile.lndustry ln
the countries ln Latin.Arnerlca. Similar reglonal .stud.J.es are
also expeeted to be undertaken to cover the Aslan and African
regions: during L9?2-73. Research'into general condltlgns. gq work,
inctuding eertain aspects of welfare faeilities in the textlle
1
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r
a survev of
Heglthr
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effect
2 tfirrtf, Conference of A:neriei,n States liembers of the Internatj-onal- t,abour 0rganisation (Ca.racas, April 1970)r' 'Report IV,
Bsryncceto-n-al4 con{i*Li,o.:rs-.9.{..-iCqxhia-re.Lat..rogje-ge-qpoetc-*Dgv-e-
@Jbe-*lo-4c-e-qs'
Geneva, 1970).
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(rio,
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industry, was undertaken by the Offlce in 1958 and. 1959 in respect
of some Latin Ameri-can countries (Colombia, El Salvador and
Paraguay). The result of this research i3 available only in monographsand. has not been published..
49.' Sqlletv. iiealth apd ]Iyeigne; The new ed.ition of the
and Sqfetv, to be published.
EneIet*ogae
in 1971, wili includ.e an up-to-date review of the problems of
safety, health and hygiene ln the textile industry. This publlcation will- contain a nunber of articles on such subjects as noise,
lighting, ad.aptation of maehines, environment, health and hygiene
relatlng specifically to the textile lndustry.
50. 0tbef-jrebo.tl.r-.P.rgblemS. In addltion to the above studies
and, lnquiries, the Office has publlshed. brief notes and. articles
on the following labour problems of the textlJ.e lndustry in the
r.+Lernq!]eeql@;
(1) Industrlal relatlons 1n the jute lndustry in West Bengal
(MrVol. 98, itio. 6, Decenber 1968, pp. 58?-588).
(il) Some labour probleus of the National Textlle Corporation
of Ceylon (by S.E.G, _Perera) (ILE,Vo], 99, No. 5,
February 1969, pp. 185-20?).
(iii)
(iv)
The handloom lndustry
Jrrne 1969, p. 666).
in
l4adhya.
Pradesh (ILR,Vol-. 99, No. 5,
textlLe lndustry in tt?e United {ftg9g* (IB,Vo1. 101,
No. 1, January 19?0r pp. 88-89 and 94-95).
The
(v) Technology and uanpower in the textile industry of the
19?0s (ILRrvol. l-01, No. 1, January L97o, p. 107).
(vi) Management in the textile lndustry (-ERrVot. 101, No. 3,
ivlarcii 19?0r
pp. 310-31I).
India: Wage Board recornmendatlons for the cotton textile
industry (ILRrVol. 101, No. 4, April 19?0r pp. 405-407).
(v11i) A case study of eoumunication in an expand.ing textile
organlsatioir (to be published, shortiy in the &B).
5J. The Committee on fnd.ustrial Committees has also before it
at the present session of the Governing Body proposals for including the follow"ing subjeets ln the agenda of the nexb session of the
Iextiles Commlttee,
(vii)
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(i) problems of remuneratlon ln the textlle industry;
(il) the role of the textile industry ln the expanslon
of employment in developing eolxrtrj-es.
the 0fflee wlll undertake stud,ies on these items 1f approved or
on any other subjects included in the agend,a for the next session
of the Textiles Comnittee.
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Geneva, 12 February 1971.
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Paragraph 52,