The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-15

"The carrying out of MT. Hughes proposals" Gompers said, will mean Simply that instead of being engaged in labor for the advancement of de- struction, workers will be doing some thing that is constructive.
 Tt is more constructive job to destroy a battleship than to build one, and I believe that in actual numbers, more men will be employed after this program goes into effect-h it Is adopted by the nations-than are ern- ployed now.
 1t was said when work on nuni- lions, shipbuilding and the making of machines and devices intended for use In Warfare was reduced to minimum In Germany, that there would result B serious unemployment crisis, As a matter of fact there is not 5000 un- employed men in Germany today"
 Washington, Nov. 16-Annerica's epokesmen will take the lead suggest ing basis for settlement of Far East- ern questions just as they did in the matter of limiting the navies of the world. This positive assertion came today from an official high in the councils of the administration.
 Whether Secretary of State Hughes EIl hit straight from the shoulder on the delcate and more controversial Saturdays historic naval session, re- main to be seen. But there is an American program, denf1nite and con- erete, and 1t will be presented at the | The statesmen of Europe and Asia thre prepared for it. They are pre- pared for almost anything after the Shock of Saturday. They are also ap- The visitors from Tol<io have ther own program in the Far East. It, too, is said to be definite and concrete and they are far more anxious to get a peep at Americas proposals in the Orient than they were to get a look at the naval program.
 The splitting of the conference into two distinct parts-one dealing with limitation of naval armament and the other with Far Eastern question may result in the American program ed committee room doors. It Is ex- pected that this point will be de- fermined at todays second plennery session.
 Today's session promised to be al- most as important as was Saturdays. An opportunity is to be afforded the spokeSmen of all nations to voice offi- ciaHy their opinions concerning the tary of State Hughes, and to suggest such changes as they desire.
 It promises to be a field day for the orators Arthur J. Balfour, head of the British delegation, will proba- bly be the first spokesman. He will formally notify the conference that the drastic Hughes program is fun sdamentally acceptable to Great Bri- tain. He will. however. serve notice at the same time that his govern ment wants certain changes in it re- specting submarines, replacements of zap ital ships, and airplane carriers.
 It is expected that Japan will fol- tow Balfour and also announce her acceptance Fundamentally and in principle of Americas proposals, re- serving the right to barter over the details.
 It is understood that Japan was hardly ready to respond so quickly, and that she prepared to do so only when inbred that Balfour would voice Britain's acceptance There was a consultation between the states en and the experts from Tokio, re- sng in a decision that Japan could not afford to be placed in the posi- ton, even temporarily of hanging back"
 Spokesmen for France and Italy also will be given an opportunity to
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