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App. II., Annex XI Y.—con/.]
Q/) ill® fourth Committee noted a report submitted to it by the Supervisory Commission on the
question of publication ; the text of this report is given as an annex to the report of the Commission.
It should be noted that the suggested changes in the various items in the Budget estimates do not
involve any increase in the total.
The Fourth Committee also proposes that the Assembly should adopt the following resolution,
which has been drafted with a view to giving effect to the proposals made by the°Supervisory
Commission in its May report :—
The Assembly :
While appreciating the results of the sale of publications and approving the proposals
submitted to it by the Supervisory Commission and the Secretary-General relative to the
extension of these sales and a stricter supervision of the employment of the grants for
printing;
Decides to draw the attention of the Advisory Committees and the Conferences convened
by the League to the heavy expense entailed by the publication of their minutes and requests
them to consider whether the publication of their discussions would not frequently be better
effected by means of a detailed report giving as exactly as possible an account of their work ;
Decides that the minutes of Sub-Committees will in no case be published unless a formal
request, containing a statement of the reasons for such a course, is submitted to the Council
through the Secretary-General ;
Requests the Supervisory Commission to report to it again next year on the printing
expenses and to indicate the saving effected in consequence of this decision.
(h) In accordance with a proposal made by the Supervisory Commission, the Fourth Committee,
considering that the salaries of all officials of lower rank than tinder Secretary-General arc subject to'
an annual increment, and, moreover, that members of the Secretariat of higher rank than Chief of
Section are not entitled to share in the Provident Fund, proposes that the salary of the 'i reasurer of
the League should be on the following scale :—
40,000 francs, rising by annual increments of 1,000 francs to 45,000 francs.
(i) The Committee has been informed by the Supervisory Commission that, owing to an error
which occurred in the preparation of the Budget, the number of posts of Member of Section A in
the Information Section should be increased from 10 to 11, and the Members of Section B reduced
from 7 to G. This correction will not involve any change in the 1927 Budget.
(j) The Supervisory Commission informed the Commission that the 1926 Conference of the
International Labour Organisation was in session for a longer period than had been anticipated in
the Budget estimates, and that consequently the appropriation in the Budget was exceeded. No
transfer can, however, be made, as no saving can be effected on the only other item in the same
chapter.
After considering the question, the Committee has decided to propose that the Assembly authorise
the Governing Body, as an entirely exceptional measure and notwithstanding Article 29 of the
Financial Regulations, to sanction the transfer of funds from another chapter in the Budget.
The only other solution would have been to ask the Assembly to vote a supplementary credit for
1926 ; but this method would have been both unpractical and unnecessary, as savings can probably
be made on the items in Chapter II,
Y.—Report of the Salaries Adjustment Committee.
The Fourth Committee approved the following report submitted to it by the Supervisory
Commission :—
“The Commission have, as instructed by the Council and the Fourth Committee of the Assembly,
examined the report of the Salaries Adjustment Committee dated 18th September. They have also
gone carefully into the statistics referred to in that report, and considered the circumstances in
which those statistics were obtained.
“ The conclusion of the Commission is that, although there seems to have been a certain rise in
the cost of living since 1923, the tigures, as they stand, do not raise the general index number of
1923 by the full 10 per cent, which, according to the existing rules, is necessary to justify a rise in
salaries. The Commission is thus unable to make any recommendation affecting the Budget
of 1927.
“ This, however, does not close the matter. The criticisms of the Salaries Adjustment Committee
on the figures which were employed in the decision of 1923, and the claims which would arise if
those criticisms are justified, have led the Commission to a closer scrutiny of the whole statistical
basis and history of the present method of varying the salaries of the staff with reference to the cost
of living in Geneva. This scrutiny has forced the Commission to the conclusion that the statistical
features are in several respects unsatisfactory, and that in certain other respects the equity of the
present system requires re-examination. Without therefore advancing any opinion as to the practical
result of such an examination, the Commission requests the Assembly to authorise it, before next
year, to study the entire system and its application, and to submit the result of its study to the
Assembly of 1927. The adjustment of salaries from time to time must always be a task of delicacy
and difficulty, and, if it is to be maintained as a principle, it is essential that its basis should be
unassailable and that the staff should be thoroughly satisfied of its justice.”
The Fourth Committee’s Report would not be complete without mentioning the gratitude of its
members to their chairman, M. Titulesco, the distinguished delegate of Roumania, who has conducted
the Committee’s discussions with authority, tact and impartiality. A tribute must also be paid to
M. Stefan Osusky, the Chairman of the Supervisory Commission, whose clear and lucid explanations
have, time and again, served to illuminate the Committee’s discussions and guide its decisions.
(For text of Resolution adopted by the Assembly see page 18.)