MAKING PUBLIC CONVENTION 87—CONCERNING FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE; CONVENTION 88—CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICE; CONVENTIO…

WHEREAS, the International Labour Conference
adopted from 1948 to 1951, the following Conventions:

(a) Convention 87—concerning Freedom of
Association and Protection of the Right to Organize;
(b) Convention 88—concerning the Organization of Employment Service;
(c) Convention 89—concerning Night “Work of Women Employed in Industry;
(d) Convention 90—concerning the Night Work of Young Persons Employed in
Industry;
(e) Convention 93—concerning Wages, Hours of Work on Board Ship and
Manning (Revised 1949);
(f) Convention 94—concerning Labour Clauses in Public Contracts;
(g) Convention 95—concerning the Protection of Wages
(h) Convention 98—concerning the Application of Principles of the Right
to Organize and to Bargain Collectively;
(i) Convention 99—concerning Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery in
Agriculture; and
(j) Convention 100—concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women
Workers for Work of Equal Value.

WHEREAS, Article 19 of the Constitution of the
International Labour Organization provides, among others, that such Conventions
need to be ratified by member States;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 140 adopted on May 21, 1953, did concur in
the ratification of the said Conventions in accordance with the Constitution of
the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally ratified the aforesaid Conventions and deposited for registration its
instrument of ratification on December 29, 1953 with the Director-General of
the International Labour Office;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Conventions,
copies of which are hereto attached, to be made public to the end that the same
and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the Tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary