The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-12-31


WASHINGTON-(FP) ~ Six hun
dred delegates from nine great ma
tional organizations of American wo-
men have closed their second confer
ence on the cause and cure of war
by delivering to President Coolidge
a series of resolutions aimed at mill
tarism and commercial Imperialism.
Another conference, summoned by the
Peoples Reconstruction League, rep
resenting labor and farmer organiza-
tiOns, has discussed American foreign
concessions with pitiless publicity
These two events in the national cap
ital, in the Opening week Of the SEES
sion of Congress have served notice
to the cou3try that resistance to i'm
perialism is active and militant.
Mrs. Carrie Chairman Gait, leading
the women's conference, undertook
, tn e women's conference, undertook
to show that America is not thinking
, merely of the problem of where to
= park the car" but is awake to the
dangers in aggressions toward the
Latin American and Asiatic peoples
= From a gathering that included lead
). ers of the League of Women Voters
f the General Federation of Women's
i Clubs, the Women's Trade Union
+ League and other elements widely di
o vergent in attitude on labor and socia
n problems, her committee drew resolu
e tons that urged:
q 1. Adherence to the world court o.
= some other machinery for peaceful
o. settlement of international disputes.
% 2 Ratification of the poison ga
! treaty now before the Senate.
# 3. Appointment by the President o
a. q commission 90 meet a similar com
h mission of the Filipino people to dis
cuss the time, manner and method o
n granting independence" to the Phil
"a ippine Islands.
= 4. Revision of the unequal treatie
/; with China on a basis of equalit!
- through direct American negotiation.
&C 5. Adjustment in Justice and coul
~ tesy" of all differences arising wit
- Japan, ana creation of public sent
ment in that direction.
=, g. Making of every effort by tn
N United States toward amicable adJus
- ment of disputes with Mexico. Sue
Cancellation to be based on the furth'
), study of the history of the Monr'
Doctrine and its application to Mex
can-American relations.
7. Cancellation of the war debt
and partial cancellation of the deb
" of foreign countries to America +
III relief supplies after the war.
A One of the most significant fe
lures of the women's conference w
oo the activity of the trade union W
~ men in pointing out the worklngcla
: basis of i.atin-American and Chine
protests against the arrogance OF Z
. foreign imperialist powers.
4 AT the concessions conference, /
ics Albert H. Putney, formerly Of t
e. State Department staff, now direct
70 of the school Of political science
nly American University, showed tn
nee Secretary Kellogg was wrong IN I
ing claim that Adolfe Diaz was lega
OF chosen president Nfl Nicaragua. ID
w. he said, was chosen by an illegal &C
the gress, to an office not legally vaca
ted His recognition by Kellogg, Putin
ads said. was in defiance of the fact II
de- the Conservatives whom he represel
Fps, are small minority. American C
cessions, legally sold to Nicaragua
$50 liberal government and duly paid !.
,ers but retained in possession OF the +
silly eign csllers, are the stake for VIII
to recognition was given.
ker RObt w. Dunn, summarizing
~ trend of American foreign mve
put ments, predicted a steady flow OF t
and money into Latin America and oil
) on backward regions, but slowing
Of of American investment in Euro
at Carleton Beals declared the Me
pigs can government is seeking, by It's
and land laws, to safeguard the sol
to regeneration of that country.
5 at government in Mexico would suit
) to Kellogg, he declared, that could
ling vive without the help Of Amen
to bayonets.
That the crisis in China is the
- of American democracy was the
sertion of Prof. Chas Hodges Of 7
Won York University. Imperialism a.
shown IN the attitude Of the to5f
, D n6v9efs i'll China, he said, as the =