AMERICAN CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1921, Page 5

AMERICAN CONGRESS.

PRESIDENT’S OPENING SPEECH. AT PEACE WITH NATIONS? By Telegraph.— Press. Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 8. 12.5 a.m. Washington, Dec. 6. President Harding, in his message to Congress, said: “It is very gratifying to have the privilege to come to Congress with the Republic at peace with all the nations of the world. It is equally gratifying to report that our country is not only free from every impending menace of war, but there are growing assurances of the permanency of peace, which we so deeply cherish. “For approximately ten years we have dwelt amid menaces of war, or as participants in war’s actualities. The inevitable aftermath, with its disordered conditions, has added to the difficulties of the Government. Our tasks would have been lees difficult if we had only ourselves to consider, but so much of the world is involved that no permanent readjustment can be effected without consideration of our inescapable relationship to world affairs in finance and trade.” Turning to the industrial situation, the President said the right of labor to organise was just as essential ’as the right of capital to organise. Labor, however, must be guided by regulations, just as corporations must answer to the law when the public welfare was con-

cerned. Jt should be possible to set judicial or quasi-judicial tribunals for the consideration and determination of all disputes which are a. menace to the public welfare. President Harding added that unemployment had grown encouragingly less. Recommending an .appropriation to supply the American Russian relief commission with ten million bushels of corn and a million bushels of seed ana grain, the President said: “We do not recognise the Russian Government or tolerate propaganda emanating therefrom, but we do not forget the traditions of Russian friendship.” Referring briefly to the Washington Conference, the President stated it was easy to believe that a world hope centred in this capital city, and a most gratifying world accomplishment was not improbable.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.