§ 1. Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Minister of Labour the names of the delegates from this country to the forthcoming I.L.O. Conference at Philadelphia.
§ The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)I am arranging to circulate a list in the OFFICIAL REPORT. There may possibly be one or two other advisers to be added.
§ Mr. DaviesMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman the total number of delegates; and is he satisfied that Great Britain will be adequately represented at this important Conference?
§ Mr. BevinGreat Britain will be adequately represented, but I have not the exact figures in my head.
§ Mr. ThorneCan the right hon. Gentleman state the total number of delegates to be sent by the Government?
§ Following is the list:
§ GOVERNMENT DELEGATES.
- Mr. George Tomlinson, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
- Sir Frederick William Leggett, C.B., Joint Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service, Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office.
§ Substitute Delegates and Advisers.
- Mr. Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd, C.M.G., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
- Mr. Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
§ Advisers.
- Mr. Percy Young Blundun, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
- Mr. George Alexander Johnston, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
- Mr. Alfred George Victor Lindon, Industrial Adviser to the Government of Trinidad.
- U Kyaw Min, I.C.S., Joint Secretary to the Government of Burma, Reconstruction Department.
- Major Granville St. John Orde-Brown, C.M.G., O.B.E., Labour Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
- Mr. Harold Frederick Oxbury, I.C.S., Joint Secretary to the Government of Burma, Reconstruction Department.
- Miss Muriel Ritson, C.B.E., Controller of Insurance and Pensions, Department of Health for Scotland.
§ EMPLOYERS' DELEGATE.
§ Sir John Forbes Watson, Director of the British Employers' Confederation, Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office.
§ Advisers.
- Mr. Thomas Ashurst, Director of the Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association, Member of the General Purposes Committee and Council of the British Employers' Confederation.
- Mr. Harold Stewart Kirkaldy, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Employers' Association, Member of the Council of the British Employers' Confederation.
- Mr. Alexander Collie Low, Secretary of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation, Member of the Council of the British Employers' Confederation.
- Mr. Cecil Walter Murray, D.F.C.; M.I.Mech.E., Managing Director, Messrs. George Fletcher and Co., Ltd., Masson Works, Derby, Employers' Member of the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee.
§ WORKERS' DELEGATE.
§ Mr. Joseph Hallsworth, General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office.
§ Advisers.
- Mr. John Brown, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
- Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Citrine, K.B.E., General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, President of the International Federation of Trade Unions.
- Mr. E. E. Esua, General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Teachers.
- Miss Florence Hancock, O.B.E., National Woman Officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
- Dame Anne Loughlin, D.B.E., Chief Woman Officer of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, Vice-President of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
- Mr. George Thomson, Officer of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.