This issue comprises four stamps and commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the International Labour

Organisation. The stamps carry the emblem of the ILO in gold on two-toned backgrounds of bronze green,

maroon, sepia and indigo. Souvenir sheets will be priced 5/7d, and First Day Covers 7/-.

1969 - 50th Anniversary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Malawi is paying tribute to the International Labour Organisation, which has played a very important role in

the economic and social progress of Africa during its period of rapid transition to the modern world. A set of

four stamps in common design, in denominations of 4d, 9d, 1/6 and 3/- is being released on the 5th February

1969 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Organisation.

The International Labour Organisation is a specialised agency associated with the United Nations. It is an

intergovernmental organisation, but employer and worker representatives take part in its work along with

the representatives of governments. Today, with a membership of 118 countries, the I.L.O. carries forward

its work to improve labour conditions and raise living standards everywhere. Its motto: "Poverty anywhere

constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere."

To achieve this aim the following programmes are fostered:—

(1) Vocational training programmes, e.g. learning the skills that help to build a nation, apprentice training in

refrigeration and air conditioning plants.

(2) Vocational rehabilitation, e.g. teaching a blind man to trim the shaft of an umbrella in a factory for

disabled workers started by the I.L.O. in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Within a year, some 45 blind, deaf and

disabled men and women were making 12,000 umbrellas a month and further expansion is planned.

(3) Two residential colleges for secretarial training have been established in Kenya. Well over 200

students, both African and Asian, graduate from them each year.

(4) The I.L.O.'s International Centre for advanced Technical and Vocational training at Turin, Italy, has been

established to serve the whole developing work.

(5) Africans are numerous among the participants in the educational programmes of the International

Institute for Labour Studies in Geneva.

(6) Co-operative methods enable many of the advantages of large-scale organisation to be applied

to traditional productive activities, e.g. coffee conditioning and the existence of a national food

co-operative in Madagascar which is the country's principal exporter of bananas.

Stamp News Malawi Post Office Philatelic Bureau June 1969

Technical Details:

Date of Issue : 5th February, 1969

Withdrawn : 8th July, 1969

Designer : G. Drummond

Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd.

Process: Photogravure

Perforation: 14

Set : 60

Size :

Format : Horizontal : 4d, 9d, 1/6d, 3/-.

Colours : 4d. Gold and myrtle-green, 9d. Gold and chocolate, 1s6d. Gold and blackish brown,

3s gold and indigo.

Watermark : Malawi Cockerel (sideways on MS 328)

Souvenir Sheet Size : 127x89mm

Catalogue Listings : SG 324 - 327

FIRST DAY COVERS

ERRORS AND VARIETIES

4d - Partial Missing Gold leaf