The Connecticut labor news., 1921-10-28
Meeting Called by Gom- pers Decides Not to Stop Efforts w i t h Demonstration Arm istice Day and Appeal to Allied COnfereeS.

Washington, Oct 28.-At the con clusion of two-day session in this city the national disarmament advisory committe invited 10 con- vcnc by President Gompers formed known the general committee for limitation of armament. The organization will be directed by d boatd of governors of 2I mem bers and an executive committee of five. There will be a chairman, hons and an executive secretary: Offices will be opened in Washington at once.
 N4+-3AA&hip ep the board of gox= ernors will be so arranged as to make that body representative of all organized groups which favor limita- ton Ot armament
 The two-day conference, presided over by President Gompers, was re- markable for its unity of view point and for it's expression of determina ton to give force to Mir. Gompers' declaration for "the furthest limit of disarmament.
 purposes the conference said, i'll part;
 It is not our purpose to attempt to suggest definite proposals to end war. This heavy responsibility rests OF the appointed representatives of our own and other governments. /
 But We believe that few general principles are accepted as self-evi- dent by a great majority of our fel- low countrymen, and that 1t may be helpful to restatc them at this time.
 The United States alone and single handed cannot best serve the great cause of peace by disarming. Even if such solitary disarmament were possible to limited extent, it would not make for world peace. It would only lessen our power to stand for freedom and to protect democracy throughout the world. Disarmament can be made effective only by inter national agreement. There IS no other way.
 Great armies and navies are not the chief cause of war. Frightful as iS the burden they put upon the people of the earth great world war is infinitely worse. Great arma- ments are not the only means of de- struction. Terrible as will be the de vastation of the world by it's armies and navies, the poison gases and deadly chemical compounds now be- ing discovered in the secret labora- tories of many nations even those which may have a peace-time use, may annihilate civilization in the next war. Against such destruction no disarmament agreements can protect us
 "The limitations of armaments is good thing in itself. It will save the great nations of the world from threatened financial collapse It is a long step forward but 1t is not peace.
 The causes of war lie far deeper. The awful madness of war is rooted i'll economic necessities and greed, in paralyzing fear of unprovoked attack, in ancient wrongs not yet lighted.
 "The agcnda of the coming inter national conference give us reason to believe that together with the limita- ton of armaments some of the causes of war will be considered.
 1t IS in this hope and Tn support of our American representatives that we submit on behalf of ourselves and of the millions of men and women in the United States the following con- fession of faith:
 We pronounce to the world our deep and abiding faith in democracy and therefore in peace.
 we prOClalm 10 the world faltn that has not been dampened or smothercd by past official lassitude or diplomatic delay and evasion.
 eve demand an official policy which shall lead the nations of the world into the thinking of peace, the building for peace, the will to have peace.
 "We have just gone through a great war-a war without precedent. This we did for a great cause. We fought for the life of democracy, that it's institutions and it's spirit might be preserved.
 "We have assured to democracy the right to live and to function.
 "We have done more. We have ob liberated the last of the great unlim ited autocracieS.
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