The Declaration of Philadelphia brought it back to life.

Phelan was the principal author of the Declaration of Philadelphia.

Its constitution, as amended, includes the Declaration of Philadelphia (1944) on the aims and purposes of the organisation.

Photograph of Phelan signing the Declaration of Philadelphia at the White House.

International Labour Organization, Declaration of Philadelphia (1944)

Declaration concerning the aims and purposes of the International Labour Organisation (Declaration of Philadelphia)

Declaration of Philadelphia 1944, reestablishing the ILO under the United Nations, and reaffirming the first principle that labour is not a commodity.

He was co-author of the declaration of Philadelphia of 1945 which set postwar goals for the ILO, and affirmed that economic and financial policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice.

The present constitution of the ILO comes from the Declaration of Philadelphia 1944, and under the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 1998 classified eight conventions as core.

In 1944, with acting Director Edward J. Phelan, he drafted the Declaration of Philadelphia which restated the ILO's aims and purposes, envisioning the ILO as the master economic agency among the specialised international bodies.

The Declaration of Philadelphia envisioned the ILO as the master agency among the specialized international bodies, placing the ILO "on the same plane as the UN as the economic counterpart of that world political body.

Moreover, Thomas Jefferson - the author of the American rebels' Declaration of Philadelphia - fled to Havana and eventually died in the Principality of Liechtenstein several years prior to 1809, while James Madison is in exile in Switzerland.

The Declaration of Philadelphia (10 May 1944) restated the traditional objectives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and then branched out in two new directions: the centrality of human rights to social policy, and the need for international economic planning.