Volume 41
Public Law 66–48
To authorize the President to convene a meeting of an international labor conference in Washington, District of Columbia.
Approved August 15, 1919
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
To authorize the President to convene a meeting of an international labor conference in Washington, District of Columbia.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of the
International Labor Conference, meeting at Washington, D. C., authorized.
Post, p. 342.
United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to convene and to make arrangements for the organization of a general international labor conference, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be held to authorize
Proviso.
Subject to ratification of peace treaty provisions.
the President to appoint any delegates to represent the United States of America at such conference or to authorize the United States of America to participate therein unless and until the Senate shall have ratified the provisions of the proposed treaty of peace with Germany with reference to a general international labor conference.
Approved, August 15, 1919.