New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-18
League Advised
l4alDorDen1anlds
Disarmament
French Federation Attitude
Is Manufacture of NUM-
lions Should BE Put I'm
der Government Control
Sunday Session Is Held
Committees Named to Re-
port ON Various Phases
of Problem in September

PARIS, July II (By The Associated
ress).-Leon Jouhaux, secretary of
the French Federation Of Labor, ad-
dressing the League of Nations Dis
armament Commission to-day, proposed
that the league covenant be amended to
provide mutual control of ornaments
and an international conference to
regulate traffic in arms.
Nj. Jouhaux said that labor wanted
direct action toward disarmament. Man
utacturers of arms, he declared, live on
war and naturally encourage it, and
some arrangement must be made to
control them or to make the manufac-
ture of arms a state monopoly.
NJ. Jouhaux said he feared the areu-
ments advanced in favor of caution in
dealing with the question would prove
obstacles in the way OF disarmament.
M, f. Hodacz, a Czecho-Slovakian
manufacturer, also spoke in favov Of
reduction Of ornaments, saying tina. in
dustry favored it. Manufacturers had
no reason to prefer the making of arms
to other articles, but the question pre-
sented some difficulties. The situation
IN new states exposed to reaction must
be taken into consideration, he de-
clared
Three Committees Named
The league commission worked all day
to-day to organize so as to comply with
the ardent injunction of Rene Vivfani.
chairman, to "put all energy to get the
work under way, so that we can be
sure to make a report to the Assembly
OF the League of Nations in September.
Results must be obtained"
Members of the commission accord
lngly withstood the muggy heat
through two long sessions on day
when League of Nations activities pen-
orally cease. A tangible result of the
days work was the appointment of
three subcommittee who will share
among themselves the work which will
Degln tomorrow with three sessions.
1hese sub-committees are as follows:
Flrst--On private manufacture of
arms, traffic in arms and munitions
and international control of traffic in
arms-General Giovanni Marietti, Italy:
Admiral Sir Somerset A. Cough Cal,
thorpe. Great Britain; M. Jouhaux.
France; M. Hodacz, Czecho- Slovakia;
Il: A. L: Fisher, Great Britain; Dr..
Rivas Vicuna, Chile. Albert Jansen.
Belgium, and Dem Jancovici, Rumania.
Second-On the right of investiga-
ton, mutual control of the exchange
OF information regarding ornaments
and the amendment of Article 8 of the
Covenant of the League of Nations
providing for mutual control, as pro-
posed by M. Jouhaux-M. Viviani.
HJalmar Branting, Sweden; M. Tat
suke, japan; Marshal Fayolle, France;
General lnagaki, Japan; M. Jancovici.
Rumania, and M. Langkjaer, Denmark.
Ihlrd-On the collection of statis-
tlcal information, including ornaments
budgets Of different countries-Sir
James Brqngate. India; M. Jansen,
Belgium; Professor Benin, Italy; M.
J. Oudegeest, Netherlands; Thomas
Findley, Canada; Marshal Fayolle.
France; the Marquis De Magaz, Spain:
Captain Penido, Brazil, and Senator
Carlo Schanzer, Italy.
To Report September
The subcommittee will report to
the full committee September l in
Geneva, whore the full committee will
sit to prepare its report for the league
assembly.
Members of the committee TODAY
expressed themselves as being we'll
satisfied with the way the work is TAX
ing shape. They expect to accomplish
results of great interest to the assem-
bly, and perhaps useful to the Wash
lngton conference.
NJ. Jouhaux referred to the speech
delivered by Mr.. Fisher, Great Britain,
yesterday, which he said he understood
to mean that the British delegate did
not desire naval disarmament to be
taken up. Mr.. Fisher, however. rec
tilted this by saying he did not at all
mean to postpone naval disarmament.
but that he had suggested this should
be considered separately from military
disarmament.
Senator Schanzer, of Italy, replying
to M. Jouhaux, insisted on the neces-
sity of proceeding cautiously. Special
conditions in different countries, she
said, must be considered, or otherwise
the objects in view likely would be
compromised, if not defeated.
All the speakers to-day again re-
ferred enthusiastically to President
Aarding's action in calling for a dis
armament conference in Washington.
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