The sun., 1919-10-27

standards to be recommended for inter-
national adoption"
Measures taken by the governments
against unemployment, according to the
report, are divided into two classes,
those for prevention and those for re-
lief Among preventive measures Is the
provision for public employment offices.
In the report on regulation of womep's
employment In industry, particular at
tention Is given to protection of mother
hood. No less than twenty-one nations
make some special regulation Of en-
ployment Of mothers before and after
childbirth.
Poland sends Five Women.
Most of the delegates to the conference
have already arrived in Washington.
In the delegations Poland IL sending
five women, Great Britain, France and
Czecho-Slovakia two each and Italy one.
all representing trades unions. Among
the prominent delegates are George N.
Barnes, member of the British War
Cabinet G. II. Stuart Burning, secre-
tary of the Postmen's Federation of
Great Britain; Charles w. Bowerman.
James Sexton, Tom Shaw, Alfred
Onions, Miss Mary Macarthur and Miss
Margaret Bonfeld. representing the
Trade Union Congress. and w. A. APP
pleton and Ivor II. Gwynne of the In
ternational Federation of Trade Unions.
A despatch from Berlin sal dthat four
Government representatives will be in
cluded In Germany's delegation. The
Hamburg Socialist, DR.. August Mueller,
formerly Minister of Economics and at
one time during the war In charge OF
food distribution, will head the delega-
ton. Privy Councillor of Commerce
Weiland will represent employers and
Herr Grassmann vice-president of the
General Commission of Trades Unions,
will represent the worlcmen, President
Legion OF that organization being unable
to make the trip.
The French delegation includes Leon
Jouhaux, president Of the French Gen.
eral Federation of Labor; M. Bide-
garray. general secretary of the National
Nine. Jeanne Bowler.
Dutch Delegation.
The delegation from the Netherlands
includes in DR.. w. H. Nolens, a member
OF the Second Chamber of the Neither
lands Parliament. and ]. G. van Thienen,
Inspector OF Labor. representing the Gov
eminent: Mr.. Vercade representing the
employers. and Mr.. oudergeest, president
of the Dutch Labor Federation and a
member of the Second Chamber of Par
Lament, representing labor.
Two women have been appointed by
the Netherlands Government as techni-
cal advisers to the Dutch Delegation
One is Mile. Suze Grooneweg, a suffra-
gist leader and member of the Second
Chamber Of the Netherlands Parliament
The other Is Henriette S. Kuyper.
Denmark sends twelve delegates. in
Guiding high Government officials, Di-
rector NJ. Vedel and NJ. Neumann of the
Labor Department.
Capital and labor are represented re-
spectively by NJ. Hauberg. president OF
the Central Federation OF Employers, and
c. F. Madsen, president of the Danish
Federation of Labor Unions. -Four
members of the Danish Parliament are
among the delegates-M. Bramsnaes and
NJ Hedebol, representing the Socialists
and NJ. Berendsen and Nine. Elna
Munich, both of the Radical party. Nine
Munich is the wife of the Danish Minis
ter OF Defence, p. Munich, and was the
first woman elected to the Danish Par
lament.
Spanish delegates are Viscount de
Eges, Adolfo Gonzales Posada, Alfonso
Sala, Francisco Largo Caballero, Joes
Gascon Marion Pedro Sangro Y Rod
de Olano, Fernando de Los Rios and
Luis Araguitain.
Louis Rosainz, who is one of Cuba's
delegates, takes the place of DR.. Enrique
Cartaya, who declined to be a delegate
on the ground of i'll health.