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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence: Session 1926
The chairman: Hon. Members: If you will come to order we will start our business. You have the Order of Reference for this meeting to-day, which is as follows: That in the opinion of this House a sufficient wage to provide for a reasonable standard of living should constitute the legal minimum wage. Now, I expect that the fifst part of the committee's work will be to organize for business, as to what order of procedure you want to follow in connection with this resolution. We have the Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour with us this morning, and, personally, I thought that if he Spoke to this resolution from the standpoint of the Labour Department, it might give us a background or foundation for the evidence, which we will later produce. What is the wish of the committee in that regard?
Mr. Hamilton: I move that the Assistant Deputy Minister be heard. Motion agreed to.
The chairman: I will ask Mr. Brown to come forward and speak to this resolution from the point of View of the Labour Department of the government.
Mr. Gerald brown (asst. Deputy Minister of Labour): Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen; you were good enough to ask me to appear before this committee, but I did not come prepared to deliver any address, either on labour questions in general, or on the Specific subject you have before you, but rather to answer any questions or furnish any information that might be of service.
As reference has been made to the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations, I may perhaps state that the International Labour Organization exists for the purpose of carrying out the portion of the programme enunciated in the Peace Treaties which relates to labour. The Labour Part of the Peace Treaties opens with the declaration that if we are going to have peace in the world it must be based on social justice and there must be a world-wide acceptance of reasonable living and working conditions.
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