About this stamp
On the Stamp
The emblem of the International Labour Organisation, two hands holding a spanner before a globe, beside a triangle joining Workers, Employers and Governments around the letters ILO, with the dates 1919-1969, on a 20 paise stamp.
Fifty Years of the ILO
India Post issued this stamp on 11 April 1969 for the 50th anniversary of the International Labour Organisation. The ILO was set up in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, on the belief that lasting peace needs social justice. India was among its founder members. It is unique among international bodies in that governments, employers and workers sit together in it as equals, the three sides of the triangle on the stamp, to agree on standards for wages, hours, safety and the rights of workers. Its 50th year was also the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi, who had written much on the dignity of labour, and in 1969 the ILO was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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