state participating."

THE FIRST MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE

The first meeting of the conference will take place in October, 1919, at
Washington, to discuss the eight-hour day or 48-hour week; prevention of
unemployment; extension and application of the international conventions
adopted at Berne in 1906, prohibiting night work for women and use of
white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches; employment of women and
children at night or in unhealthy work, employment of women before and
after child birth; maternity benefits and employment of children as
regards to minimum age.

PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE THE CONFERENCE

Nine principles of labor conditions are recognized on the ground that
"the well-being, physical and moral of the industrial wage-earners is of
supreme international importance." Exceptions are necessitated by
differences of climate, habits, and economic development. They include
the guiding principle that labor should not be regarded merely as a
commodity or article of commerce; right of association of employers and
employees; a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life;
the eight-hour day or 48-hour week; a weekly rest of at least 24 hours,
which should include Sunday wherever practicable; abolition of child
labor, and assurance of the continuation of the education and proper
physical development of children; equal pay for equal work as between
men and women; equal treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein,
including foreigners; and a system of inspection in which women should
take part.

NO MORE SECRET TREATIES

All treaties of international engagements concluded after the
institution of the league will be registered with the secretariat and
published. The assembly may from time to time advise members to
reconsider treaties which have become inapplicable or involve danger of
peace. The covenant abrogates all obligations between members
inconsistent with its terms, but nothing in it shall affect the validity
of international engagement such as treaties of arbitration or regional
understandings like the Monroe Doctrine for securing the maintenance of
peace. This last clause is of special interest to the United States.

NEW BOUNDARIES OF GERMANY

After thus providing for the League of Nations, the treaty takes up the
provisions of special importance to the various belligerent nations. It
is well to notice the new boundaries of Germany. That nation cedes to
France, Alsace-