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170 6. The night work of young persons employed in industry. Under this Convention young persons under 18 years of age are not to be employed during the night in any industrial undertaking, but by Article 6 India is made an exception and the age of the young person is reduced from 18 to 14 and industrial undertaking is confined to factories as defined by the Indian Factory Act. THE 1C-HOUR DAY. The most important of the above 6 Conventions is the first one on the application of the 10-hour day or 60hour week. This special concession to the Indian Government was arrived at after a discussion in a specially appointed committee. Article 405 of the Treaty of Peace runs as follows: “In framing any recommendation or draft Corvention of general application, the conference shall have due regard to those countries in which climatic conditions, the imperfect development of industrial organizations or other special circumstances make the industrial conditions substantially different, and shall suggest the modifications, if any, which it considers may be required to meet the case of such countries." In pursuance of this Article a special commitee was appointed under the presidency of the Rt. Hon. G. N. Barnes. During the deliberations of that committee Mr. N. M. Joshi on behalf of the Indian Labour put in the following statement. 1. My individual view is that no harm will be done to the industries in India even if the principle of