Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
WORLD MESSAGE
WARNS OF ARMS
fContinucd from First Pngc.1

to appoint a committee to
inquire into the strength of
the forces to be maintained
by the Allies and associated
powers on the western front
during the period of the
armistice.
The committee will be
composed of Marshal Foch,
General Tasker Bliss, Gen
eral Diaz, Winston Spencer
Churchill, the British min
lister of war, and M. Louch-
eur, French minister of re-
construction.
The military branch of
the council adjourned at
noon until 1890 o'clock to-
morrow morning. The coun-
Gil of the five great powers
continued in session after
the withdrawal of the spe-
cial military representa-
tives. Louis Klotz, the
French minister of finance,
and Louis Loucheur, the
French minister of recon-
struction, took part in the
deliberations.
The council took a re-
cess at 1880 o'clock until
three o'clock.
Paris, Jan. 24.-The question
OF whether the Panama Canal
hould be internationalized un-
der the league of nations would
depend entirely upon the atti-
tude of the United States gov
ernment, according to the belief
expressed tonight by Lord
Robert Cecil who has submitted
to the peace congress a draft
of the British view of the
structure OF the league. He
spoke at a conference of jour
ualists.
The second session of the Peace
Congress, to be held tomorrow, will,
like the first, be open TO the press:
The first subject on the order OF
business. as was announced yester-
day by the Supreme Council, will be
International legislation on labor.
Under instructions given at the first
session various national delegations
have been preparing written state
ments OF their views on the subject,
and it is understood that, under a
special order these will be received
by the congress and referred to a
committee, which will give careful
study to the various reports and en-
deavor to amalgamate them into a
general project to be recommended
u the congress for approval.
Views Crystallized
Americas views has been crystal
i'm many respects with those held by
the British delegates. 1t is believed
20 be based upon full recognition
of the principles of international
protection of labor by governme entail
agencies thus offsetting what is re-
garded as a dangerous tendency to-
ward class control of governments.
Date is being prepared to demon
strate a simultaneous movement in
this direction by tabor organizations
in the United States, England and
France, eliminating IN the adoption
oy the French Chamber of Deputies
of the report of the Berne confer
ence, held before the war, as ampli-
fed by the conference held at Leeds,
England, in 1916. These, in general,
look TO the relief of labor from in
ternationa! oapitalistic control, the
freedom to choose employment and
place OF lanor, guarantees of en-
ployment social insurance, the right
of organization and the enforcement
Of hygienI.. conditions at places OF
employment.
Labor Problems
OF interest to the southwestern
section of the United States, as we'll
as Mexico, $ the demand for free
dom to work in any country on
terms of equality with native labor.
Other provisions are said to relate
TO child and female labor, the pro-
hibition OF night work for minors;
a paste eight-hour day. and the pro-
hibition of international trade in
products made by minors. 1t is ex-
pected the American delegates will
present data to show the necessity
for international Standardization OF
sailors wages. as already required
by American law, If unfair and in
furious. Competition for the worlds
freight business is to be avoided, 1,
is understood and a spirit of mutual
cooperation is to govern as the best
guarantee of avoiding wars resulting
from such competition.
Lord Robert held that the Pan
anna Canal is not on the same basis
as some other waterways, since 1t is
the property of the United States
and must be for that country to say
how it shall be controlled.
Equal Rights For All
In speaking of the admission oi
neutrals into the league on the same
basis as other nations, Lord Robert
said he felt that there should be nc
classification but that all sovereign
Independent states should have
equal rights. In the general dis
cussion which followed this remark
he said it would be a disaster If ne
South American nations were in
GUIDED in the organization.
The question was raised as tC