Excerpt from The International Seamen's Code: Note Addressed to the Governments of the States Members of the International Labour Organisation by the International Labour Office It is in order to facilitate the accomplishment of these two tasks that the present volume has been prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Report on progress made by the ILO in 1920 in the systematic preparation of a draft international labour code (maritime law) for seafarers - contains government attitudes expressed in replies to an ILO questionnaire, the report of the ILO Commission on an International Seaman's Code 1920, Debates and Decisions of the 1920 International Labour Conference, proposals of the ILO Joint Maritime Commission, the draft of a French Maritime Code (1913-1914), and a historical note on early Maritime Codes.