§ Mr. LEES-SMITHasked the Minister of Labour how many meetings of the governing body of the International Labour Organisation have been held since the present British Government took office; whether he can inform the House of the name and official grade of the British delegate who has represented His Majesty's Government at these meetings; and whether he can give to the House the names of the British representatives to the forthcoming conference of the International Labour Organisation?
§ Mr. BETTERTONTwo meetings of the governing body of the International Labour Office have been held since the present Government took office. On each of these occasions the British Government was represented by Mr. Humbert Wolfe, C.B.E., a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Labour as substitute for myself. I append the names of the members of the British delegation to the forthcoming international Labour Conference. I am myself leaving for Geneva this week to attend the Conference.
Following are the names:
Government Delegates
Mr. Henry Bucknall Betterton, C.B.E., M. P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour.
Mr. Robert Reid Bannatyne, C.B., Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
Advisers to the Government Delegates.
Mr. Edward Gordon Bearn, Chief Inspector, Health Insurance Depart ment, Ministry of Health.
Sir Gerald Bellhouse, C.B.E., His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office.
Mr. Charles Matthew Knowles, LL.B., Assistant Legal Adviser, Home Office.
Mr. Cyril Leigh Macrae Langham, Chief Clerk, Solicitor's Department, Ministry of Labour.
Mr. Isaac Haig Mitchell, Conciliation Officer, Ministry of Labour.
Mr. James Frederick George Price, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
Mr. Rupert Churchill Gelderd Somervell, Principal in Charge of the International Labour Division, Ministry of Labour.
2068WMr. Humbert Wolfe, C.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
Delegate representing the Employers.
Mr. James Lithgow, Shipbuilder, Colliery Owner, Iron and Steel Manufacturer, etc.; ex-President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation; ex-President of the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations.
Advisers to the Employers' Delegate.
Mr. H. Elliston Allen, Chairman of the North Wales Coalowners' Association.
Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Vice-President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation, Member of the General Purposes Committee of the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations.
Mr. Geoffrey Marchand, Association of Glass Bottle Manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mr. Richard Snedden, National Confederation of Employers' Organisations.
Councillor Solomon Stephens, ex-Mayor of Plymouth, ex-President of the National Association of Master Bakers, Confectioners and Caterers.
Mr. John Ballingall Forbes Watson, Secretary of the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations.
Delegate representing the Work people,
Mr. Edward Lawrence Poulton, O.B.E., J.P., Secretary of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
Advisers to the Workpeople's Delegate.
Mr. John William Banfield, J.P. General Secretary, Operative Bakers Confectioners and Allied Workers Trade Union.
Mr. Joseph Cotter, President, Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union.
Mr. Arthur Hayday, J.P., M.P., District Organiser, National Union o: General and Municipal Workers.
Mr. John Stokes, J.P., General Secretary, London Glass Bottle Workers Trade Society.
Mr. Benjamin Tillett, Political and International Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.
2069WMiss Julia Varley, Trade Union Organiser, The Workers' Union.
Secretary to the Delegation.
Mr. Alfred Ernest Kingham, Assistant Principal, International Labour Division, Ministry of Labour.