THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

LABOR PROPOSALS. PLACED BEFORE THE CONFERENCE. Paris, Feb. 9. The Commissioner on International Labor Legislation has received from the American delegates a series of fundamental principles which should be included in the Peace Treaty. They declare that no person should be forced under a sovereignty under which he does not wish to live; that it should be recognised that the labor of. the human being is not a commodity or article of commerce; that the right of free association, free assemblage, free speech and free press should not be denied or abridged; that merchant seamen be guaranteed the right to leave their vessels when tiiey are safe in harbors and to refuse to ship commodities in the production of which children under sixteen years have been engaged. An eight hours' day is demanded, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, wages commensurate with a proper standard, of life, and equal pay for men and women for equal work.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Owing to the obstructive criticism in the French press it is alleged in American cu'cles here that the Peace Conference may remove to a neutral country. The Roumanian Committee has arranged matters respecting Bessarabia and Bukovina. ECONOMIC CONSIDERATION. DESIRE FOR CO-ORDINATION. Paris, Feb. 10. President Wilson's motion in the Supreme War Council was carried without discussion, there being a unanimous desire to co-ordinate all efforts in the economic sphere. The new representation on the Armistice Commission at Spa will in no way interfere with the High Command, but the work of the Supremo Council of Supply, it is believed, will he absorbed by the Economic Council.— Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. Paris, Feb. 10. M. Pichon, interviewed, said he did not believe in any resurrection in Germany from a military point of view. Militarism was not quite dead, and there were still forces, but they were being watcbed very closely.—Aus.-N.iS. Cable Assn. UKRAINIANS ACCEPT INVITATION | TO MARMORA. Received Feb. 11, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Feb. 9. The Ukrainians have accepted the Marmora invitation, but cannot be ready to attend by the 15th. Le Temps understands that the Entente is insisting that hostilities shall cease in all Russia, otherwise they will not confer with the Soviets. —Reuter.