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- 331. The original complaint of the Greek General Confederation of Labour was contained in a telegram dated 4 September 1964 addressed directly to the I.L.O. This was supplemented by a communication dated 15 September 1964. The texts of these two communications were transmitted to the Government for its observations by two letters dated respectively 9 and 30 September 1964. By a communication dated 23 September 1964 the Government furnished certain preliminary observations on the complaint and stated that full observations would be forwarded subsequently. By a communication dated 30 October 1964 the complainants submitted additional information in support of their complaint, which was transmitted to the Government for its observations. By a communication dated 6 November 1964 the Government forwarded the observations referred to in its letter dated 23 September 1964.
- 332. This communication, which is the Government's reply to the allegations made by the Greek General Confederation of Labour with reference to the new trade union legislation in Greece, was received by the Office on the same day as that on which the Committee met. The Committee, therefore, has not been able to examine it in detail. In view of the importance of the matter the Committee proposed to undertake at its next session an urgent examination of the new legislative provisions and of the allegations relating to the financing of trade union organisations in the light of the principles embodied in the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), ratified by Greece, and, in particular, the principles enunciated in Article 3 of that Convention, which provides that workers' and employers' organisations shall have the right to draw up their Constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes, and that the public authorities shall refrain from any interference which would restrict this right or impede the lawful exercise thereof. In the meantime the Committee trusts that, in putting the new system into effect, the Government will take care to ensure that the principles of the Convention referred to above are not infringed.
The Committee's recommendations
The Committee's recommendations
- Geneva, 12 November 1964. (Signed) Roberto AGO, Chairman.
