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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 756-JUNE 30, 1948 [CHAPTER 756] JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for acceptance by the United States of America of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization Instrument of Amendment, and further authorizing an appropriation for payment of the United States share of the expenses of membership and for expenses of participation by the United States. Whereas the Senate and House of Representatives by Public Resolu- tion Numbered 43 of the Seventy-third Congress authorized the President to accept membership for the Government of the United States of America in the International Labor Organization and the President, pursuant thereto, accepted such membership on August 20, 1934; and Whereas such membership in the International Labor Organization has proved of benefit to the people of the United States; and Whereas the International Labor Organization provides a unique international forum in which representatives of employers and workers join together with those of governments in formulating conventions and recommendations which serve as international mini- mum standards for labor and social legislation and administration within member countries; and Whereas extensive revision of the constitution has been undertaken to enable the Organization to meet changed conditions, to strengthen the application of conventions and recommendations, with careful provision to meet the constitutional rules and practices of Federal States, and to operate as a specialized agency in relationship with the United Nations; and Whereas the Constitution of the International Labor Organization Instrument of Amendment of 1946 was adopted unanimously on October 9, 1946, with the entire delegation of the United States to the Twenty-ninth Session of the International Labor Conference supporting this Instrument of Amendment: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congressassembled, That the President is hereby authorized to accept for the Government of the United States of America the Constitution of the International Labor Organization Instrument of Amendment adopted by the Twenty-ninth Session of the International Labor Conference on October 9, 1946. SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Department of State- (a) such sums, not to exceed $1,091,739 per annum, as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the Organization, as apportioned by the Inter- national Labour Conference in accordance with article 13 (c) of the constitution of the Organization; and (b) such additional sums, not to exceed $95,000 per annum, as may be necessary to pay the expenses incident to participa- tion by the United States in the activities of the Organization, including- (1) salaries of the representative or representatives and alternates and appropriate staff, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; services as authorized by section 15 of Public Law 600, Seventy-ninth Congress; under such rules and regula- tions as the Secretary of State may prescribe, allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light and cost-of- living allowances to persons temporarily stationed abroad; printing and binding without regard to section 11 of the 1151 June 30, 1948 IS. J. Res. 117] [Public Law 843] International Labor Organization. 48 Stat. 1182 . 22U..C.. 271, 272. Acceptance for U. S. of amendment to con- stitution. Appropriation au- thorized. .inte, p. 309. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S.C. J§ 661-74. 60 Stat. 810. 5 U.S.. t§5a.

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