SEPTEMBER 24 CONFERENCE ON MINE SAFETY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000100150008-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 19, 1956
• Content Type: DISP

AOMiSM Release 2001/07/28 : CI '100150008-4
nt of State, Washington
Authority that the UK representatives will attend the Conference as full par-
ticipants and not an observers. He added that it is nonetheless clear on an
sides that UK participation is unaccompanied bey' commitments of aq hints In
particular, he, said,, the UK waAd refrain from putting forward ansy concrete
proms of its am and no doubt refrain as weU from aesoci. ting itself with
proposals that the Conference would request the High Authority to
transmit to the W.W Council of Mi istera. The UK representative described the
UK role an one of "assisting and steering the Conference along usefatl lis ?
in discussion of a subject in which the UK highly interested.
2. zat ; of Ccenference
The Confer is row expected to be presided over jointly by Messrs. F%:ret
and Daum, Mematbers of the High Authority. preliminary talks are already underway
between the High Authority and the ILO an the organization of the Conferencat ee,
At the leptember 6 session of theme Council of Ministersp, it was decided
that national delegations to the Confer would consist of eight governmental
representatives* four labor representatives and four mar t representatives;
or a der number of delegates at the discretion of each Government but respecting
the above ratio of two-one-ones (According to the High Authority,, this is the
weighting used b,I' the ?L4 for national delegations.)
r S. 1956
the Conference bens discussion of technical questions.
The itasim has been informed ',- a member of the UK Delegation to the KISU
P
first meeting of the Confeerenc e, after which other UK experts viill be appointed
Fcw= CE MSFA
No. LUX D-0
4007966
September 19, 1956
Spsg oRmwools,Hasguea,Lwidon, aurg,#Paris,
September 24 Conference on 1 Safety
1221Sattc,*i to attend Cant`s
,r+..~rr.n~.....rrirrr
ice on aim safety, called at the decision of the C 1C Council
rs fc7.le ..ns the Marcinelle disaster in elgiun, opens in Lwwmbourg
pept,ad the invitation to take part. The four an delegation will
be homed b?,- Mr. A, X. Rake,, Under Secretar',y', Chief of the 5ai"ety and Health
ggv4sten Idinistry of Fuel and Power. The delegation is ached-led to attend the
Wift9*far Release 2001/07/28: CIA-R[ `F$ h 50008-4
State Dept. de, lassification & release instructions on file
 Apprbwed, f or Release 2001/07/28 , f 00100150001WO 2
x LUX D-i
From us M1e
According to a High Authority rinia . the Conference wia.
.
---
im ediateetly form a na sr of sob-ac ttiqqe that, will prepare the P'V0090410 to
be + ,eted by January 31, 1"& H r, tt 1, offlaial queeestion$ whether the
Ce ereence Will be able to **I*" the uubjeet- of mine safety euffie ly and
_ up with well the t-out paroposals in, such a short time.
f~ ernan Yi ee!em
Miring a onversatioo with a member of the Owman -assy In t4ambo rg oiho
wot# on C questions. he said that whereas the German Government haft a esse d
opposiat the September 6 C it meeting to agreeing to create an inter
national body for mine safety, Germ consent to have the qusstion di eeueaed at
the t 'eex a opening can September 24 wed almost tantamount to nG In
Hegers he said# the German _ vern
~'lOBit~.ta was eleF~r'.ly th~:t the national QoYBrJt~ip
and national legl alatioen should continue to be soverSIAM in the ehalea APA m%.
to esp ent ems" safety measures in the national mines, Not only was the legislation
p3, .e a .e to mine oafvky. in each elao entry very complex and eopio es (be said that
lgtan code numbers hundreds of pages),, which would mean that solely from
the ju rlstes'' p"A of the task o$' bringing such legislation Into h r r
or re .iliing present incompatibilities e4th a system of ir&eurnatin, p rol
be snormsous but the variety in the characteristics of the different coal
workings to the Ce nutity mad impossible the general appl icatics, of uit rm
safety measures. He conaluded that the Germans would have no objection to an
wasnf satiean that would be able to acs suggestions the varioaw Govez is
for improving safety conditions in the mines, but the German Goteern could not
a**"* that such stations or suggestions be binding upon it.
The German Embassy official said that in his opinion a4' international Or ow
eeht3esn would be extra iely useef4 on the other hand? as a sort of clearing
house for the +s~ f ;i onl tic>n on now developaeer s in the field of,alne
eatef y. A11 too AMij, he said, Is the coal. industry in one country MaMM of
mew a valuable deveicpo nts for improving safety in the coal basins of a
coutry. Re `earr ng o the Marcinefle disaster
he said that the
,
Gam. had arrived a the sedsnc with an instrument for testing the purity of the
air is mines that was completely w%lmom outside German r and zigK us fu3 be
erplo ed e1s46ere in the f mom .ty, An Interactional organisation sam,d thus
perhaps best serve the cause of mins safety by disseminating Information aboia
such now 4s"lopmentes, and leaving the actual application of safety measures to
the responsibility of the interested national authorities,
Be tteereaorth ~``.
W. uali.
United. States Representative
Approved For Release 2001/07/28 CIA-RDP78-02771 R000100150008-4