New Britain herald., 1919-02-12

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 Labor Recommendations Received
 Foremost on this secondary pro- gram are the recommendations of the committee on international labor leg islation. Samuel Gompers, the chair man, has been pushing work so that it is expected he will have a report ready for the conference as soon as 1t is ready to receive it.
 Opinions Directly Opposite.
 There have been difficulties in rec onciling the diverse views Of British and American labor interests, as each dTIn1 iY, conservative in others, in the opinion of some labor leaders. It is said that there is no coincidence between their plans. The British are radicals where Americans are cautious, while the Americans throw conservatism to the winds when considering matters on which the British are careful.
 Financial Question Important
 Meetings are going on today. as they have almost continuously during the last few days, between men who have come to Paris at the call of President Wilson and the premiers to deal with great financial problems arising out of the war. Every delega- uon admits the gravity of the prob lems presented and the absolute delegation admits the gravity of the problems presented and the absolute necessity for their settlement, if the world is to be saved from universal Bankruptcy. In no place is it regard ed as so evident that there must be the fullest and most cordial cooper 1 atiOn between the nations now rep resented at the conference as in the | effort to restore the ability of cur rency, reduce prices to a reasonable 1 level, get rid of supernuous issues of i H huctations of exchange and regulate l the rates Of interest on, and the l am mount of, bonds to be issued
 America Opposes Pool.
 Already initial steps have been talk 1 en to commit the peace conference to l the adoption of a great international 1 pooling system of debts, which shall l include all neutral nations, whether l they wish to or not. This will meet | with the most determined resistance l from the Am erican delegates who feel | that America did her full share In : aiding the Allies by furnishing troops l and almost unlimited supplies of 1 money and material. They are under stood to be quite willing to rid France of the nightmare of German power in | extending further credits to permit France to rehabilitate her industries l and enable her. and Belgium as we'll ! to hold her own in the worlds mark 1 cts, but they thoroughly appreciate the fact that it is beyond their power to commit their country to participa- ton in any monetary credit system with European powers. They also feel that some of these countries have been derelict in not imposing, as the United States and Great Britain did, I 1 +; pie during the war to meet at least in part, their obligations instead of upon reimbursement from lndemnitieS to be collected from the | enemy.
 Boycott Plan in Evidence.
 The revival of the spirit of the old Paris economic conference, which planned boycotts and after-the-war is sometimes in evi- 1ence during discussions. It made it's 1 appearance in the desire of one coun- try to impose discriminatory duties on enemy commerce. during the consid- aration of the plan to make all inter national waterways open for all na- liOns on even terms. This was re- 5arded as a violation of one of the IA points," but the commission deal ng with the subject is having some in passing thi point. How ever, the general acceptance of the principle of international control over such waterways, to the extent at east of prescribing rules which shall govern navigation and defining the riparian rights of abuttinG nations is to have paved the way for ultimate agreement in the commission upon a report which will probably be received with approval by the peace or it's legatee, the society 0f nations.
 pTRSHING INSISTS MAIL
 SER1rIGIN IS SATISFACTORY