President. ladies. and gentlemen. the problem of Indentured labor. and particularly indentured labor with penal sanctions. in case of Infringement of agreement. is to many delegates. and also in my own opinion. at least of equal importance with the subject of forced labor. which has been under discussion at this conference. There exists a close relationship between these two problems and I am fully In agreement with the pronouncement made by the joint committee of the League of Nations Union and the British Antislavery and Aborigines Protection Society appearing in the appendix of the report on forced labor. This pronouncement reads as follows: "In our opinion the two classes of labor which today lead to the gravest abuses are forced labor and Indentured contract labor." You will therefore understand. Mr. President. that I was greatly disappointed when I learned from the report that the problem of indentured labor could not be discussed at this conference. and that no undertaking could be given as to the time when the international labor conference would deal with this problem.
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