Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-08

possibility of economic action in the
background.
| The first meeting of the confer.
ence will take place in October, 1919
at Washington, to discuss the eight.
hour day or 48-hour week; proven,
ton of unemployment, extension
and application of the international
conventions adopted at Berne in
1906 prohibiting might work for wo.
men and the use of white phosphor.
us in the manufacture of matches
and employment of women and chill.
dren at night or in unhealthy work
of women before and after child.
birth, including maternity benefit
and of children as regards minimum
age.
Labor clauses; Nine principles OF
labor conditions were recognized on
the ground that "the we'll being
physical and moral, of the industrial
wage earners is of$upreme interna-
tional importance" With exceptions
necessitated by differences of eli
mate, habits and economic develop
ment they include: The guiding
principle that labor should not be
regarded merely as a commodity or
article of commerce; right of asso-
citation of employers and employees;
a wage adequate to maintain a rea-
sonable standard of life; the eight
hour day or 48-hour week; a weekly
rest of at least "a hours, which
should include Sunday wherever
practicable; abolition of child labor
and assurance of the continuation OF
the education and proper physical
development ST children; equal pay
for equal work as between men and
women; equitable treatment of all
workers lawfully resident therein in
GLIDING foreigners; and a system of
inspection in which women should
take part.
Security for France Assured.
Guarantees, Western Europe:
German territory to the west of the
Rhine, together with the bridge
heads, will be occupied by allied
and associated troops for IS years.
If the conditions are faithfully car
ried out by Germany, certain dis
tricts, including the bridgehead of
Cologne, will be evacuated at the
expiration of FIVE years; certain 9TH
er districts, including the bridge
head of Coblenz and the territories
nearest the Belgian frontier, will be
evacuated after 10 years, and tSe
remainder, including the bridgehead
of Mainz, will be evacuated after Is
years.
In case the interallied reparation
commission finds that Germany has
failed to observe the whole or part
of its obligations, either during the
occupation or after the Is years
have expired, the whole or part OF
the areas specified will be reoccu-
pied Immediately. If before the ex-
piration of the Is years Germany
complies with all the treaty under
takings, the occupying forces will
be withdrawn Immediately.
Eastern Europe: All German
troops at present in territories to
the east of the new frontier shall
return as soon as the allied and as
ISOLATED governments deem wise.
They are to abstain from all requi-
sitions and are in no way to inter
fere with measures for national de-
Tense taken by the government con-
cerned.
Regulation of Occupation.
All questions regarding occupa-
ton not provided for by the treaty
will be regulated by subsequent
convention or conventions which
will have similar force and effect.
Miscellaneous: Germany agrees
to recognize the full validity of the
treaties of peace and additional con-
ventions to be concluded by the
allied and associated powers with
the powers allied with Germany;
to agree to the decisions to be taken
as to the territories of Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, and
to recognize the new states in the
frontiers to be fixed for them.
Z Germany agrees not to put for
ward any pecuniary claim against
any allied or associated powers
signing the present treaty based on
events previous to the coming in
force of the treaty.
Germany accepts all DEGREES as to
German ships and goods made by
any allied or associated prize court.
The allies reserve the right to ex-
anime all decisions of German prize
courts. The present treaty, of
which the French and English texts
are both authentic, shall be ratified
and the dispositions of ratifcations
made in Paris as soon as possible.
The treaty is to become effective in
all respects for each power on the
date of deposition of its ratihca-