Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-10-31
ADMIT GERMANY
To NEW REGIME
IN LABOR WORLD.
Admission of Mexico
and inland to Confer
ence Also Sought.

, Washington, Oct. 30.-With only tho
French capital delegate opposing the
acton, the international labor confer
ence today decided to admit representa-
flVes OF Germany and Austria Immediate
~ upon their arrival here to full mem
bershlp IN the world labor organizati 81.
Louis Guerin, who cast the only mega
i've vote holding up to view the desola
ton wrought by the German military
machine In the invaded regions of his
country; declared that a distinction mast
be made between barbarian nations
that regard a treaty as ''scrap of
paper and allied peoples who had fought
tor the cause of freedom. He insisted
that Germany and Austria. with whom.
war. should not be admitted until the
close of the conference and maintained
that such was the view of the French
senate and of Leon Bourgeois, French
representative to the league of nations.
New Regime includes Germans.
Sharp opposition to this view was ex-
pressed by Leon Iouhaux. French labor
delegate, who said that the war was at
an end and that Germany must be ad-
mltted in the new regime
The Belgian governmental and labor
delegates asked to be recorded as voting
fayorab.y only because economic contii-
tIons forced them to do So" and Jules
Carrier, Belgian capital representative.
abstained from voting
Belgian Delegate Refrains.
Il cannot vote against the resolution
because of imperative economic reasons
which are clear to ALL" said Mr.. earlier.
and l will not vote for it because Ger
many has cruelty violated all it's ohfiga-
uons to Belgium and because the Ger
mans have Intentionally and daboHcally
wrecked all our industrial life during
the four. years of their occupation
An effort was made by e. III. Nolens,
Dutch government delegate. to strike
out of the resolution of adj ission the
words stating that the action was taken
in accordance with the decisions of the
allied and associated powers" but the
motion was lost
Mexico and Finland Proposed.
pr 4. FL. Elizal, government delegate
from Ecuador. asked why Mexico had
not been invited to the conference and
moved to admit that republic. while
Judge iohan Castberg, Norwegian gov
ernment representative, stated that Fin
land also be admitted. Both motions
We're deferred until tomorrow.
: IN opposing the participation of the
Germans in the conference, Mr.. Guerin
said that he left Paris with the assurance
that Germany and Austria were not to
be admitted to the international labor
organization until the end of the present
conference. This view, he said, had been
confirmed by Leon Bourgeois, and he
read from the journal of the French SEN
ate in confirmation of his position
French Split on Teutons.
The French capital delegate drew at
tentlon to the fact that the treaty is not
yet in effect and said that it was neees-
sary to draw line of demarcatiou be-
tween an enemy people who violated the
neutrality of Belgium and introduced
barbarous methods in warfare" and the
nations which respect international law.
Replying to his colleague Mr.. .Iou
haux asserted that it would be impossible
to impose the principles adopted by the
conference on Germany and Austria IN
deliberations