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Eisenhower: “I do not favor the enactment of Federal legislation with respect to the subject matter of the Convention (No. 101) and…”

On the recordMay 25, 1955
I do not favor the enactment of Federal legislation with respect to the subject matter of the Convention (No. 101) and corresponding Recommendation (No. 93) concerning holidays with pay in agriculture, the Recommendation (No. 94) concerning consultation and cooperation between employers and workers at the level of the undertaking, and the Recommendation (No. 98) concerning holidays with pay, so far as it relates to private employment.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Conventions and Recommendations Adopted at Geneva by the International Labor...

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