LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12569, 5 March 1919, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

REPUBLICAN SENATORS' PETITION,

LEAGUE ALLEGED TO BE A MENACE TO MONROE DOCTRINE. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CHARTER ADOPTED, By Telegraph—Pwss AiHociatlon—UopjrighJ. Australian ind N.Z. Cable AteociatJtm. (Received March 5, 0.55 a.m.V WASHINGTON. March 4. T'crty Republican Senators have signed a petition demandingl that the League of Nations be considered apart from the Treaty of Peace, and opposing the present draft of the League, because it endangered the Monroe Doctrine and the powers granted to Congress under the constitution of the United States. The petition may lie submitted to the Senate for adoption. Senator Lodge offered a resolution to the Semite rejecting the present draft of the League of Nations, and urging the Peace Conference to expedite the signing of the Peace Treaty. The resolution is based on the petition. THE POSITION OF THE LITTLE NATIONS. WARNING FROM MR LLOYD GEORGE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March. 5, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. Mr Lloyd George, at a "Welsh dinner, said the position of the little Nations at the Paris Conference was an outstanding feature, but it was necessary to caution them of this danger: Little Nations emulated the faults of great Empires. There was a tendency amongst little Nations to expand beyond the limits of their race and to annex territories not their own. This was a most fatal error. mIV! Ul.ipn INTERNATIONAL CHARTER OF LABOUR. s' ADOPTED BY LABOUR COMMITTEE AT PARIS. Australian and Jf.Z. Cablo Association. (Received March 5, 9°.15 a.m.) LONDON. March 4. Mr G. N. Barnes states that the International Labour Committee at Paris endorsed the British draft of the International Charter of Labour. It includes that there shall be no employment of children under fifteen, and that boys and girls between, fifteen and eighteen shall only be allowed to work six hours daily; that the hours of all workers must not exceed eight daily, or forty-eight weekly; that workers shall be allowed a continuous weekly rest of at least thirty-six hours between Saturday and Monday; that women must not bo employed at night, nor given homework after the regular day's work; that workers shall have the right of free combination and association in all countries; and that immigration shall not be prohibited, though the State shall have the right to restrict immigration temporarily in times of economic depression. l