This article addresses some of the dilemmas that arose from Romania’s status as a founding member of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It analyses the Romanian governmental elites’ accommodation of the tripartite approach in the larger context of the multilateral diplomacy enshrined in the Peace Treaties following the First World War. In this sense, the article addresses issues of governmentality and representation by looking at the Romanian elites from the angle of structuration (A. Giddens). In an attempt to fill a gap between different strands of historiographies, it builds on the accounts of a historian who was a part of the discussions concerning labour issues at the Paris Peace Conference, while also bringing into the spotlight previously unpublished archival material from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.