ABSTRACT
The International Labour Organization was established by the Treaty of Versailles at the close of the Great War. It was created for the purpose of improving the conditions of labour in all countries in the belief that we cannot maintain peace without social justice. The Organization holds a Conference of representatives of all Member nations to agree upon minimum standards for working conditions and measures for the protection of workers. The minimum standards for working conditions are not intended to reduce industrial practice in all countries to one common level. Each Member country sends to the International Labour Conference four representatives, two to speak for its Government, one for its employers, and one for its employees. A draft convention formulates a minimum standard which a two-thirds majority of the delegates at the Conference believe that the nations of the world can and should observe.
