§ THE EARL OF CLARENDONMy Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Viscount Peel I beg leave to introduce a Bill entitled the Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Bill, to give effect to certain draft Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference relating respectively to an unemployment indemnity for seamen in the case of loss or foundering of their ship, the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed at sea; and to move that it be read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1a—(The Earl of Clarendon.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1a; and to be printed.