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| ee permanent 14 I. Resolution for presentation to the LF.T.U. Congress at The Hague, December roth to 15th, 1922. This Conference, composed of 111 international and national organizations representing 20 million men and women and organ- ized by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, welcomes moat warmly the declaration made by the Congress ot the International Federation of Trade Unions held in Rome in 1922 that “The Fight against Militarism and War and for World Peace, based upon the fratérnization of the peoples, is one of the principal tasks of the Trade Union Movement”; that “it is, above all, the i the International Trade Union Movement to combat the co.nuding of maintaining of alliances or agreements which might lead ta concerted military actions,” and to take united and inter- national measures to “counteract all wars which may threaten to break out in the future.” The organizations represented at this Con- ference desire to stand side by side with the workers in this effort, and welcome the initiative taken by the LF.T.U. in calling an Inter- national Congress at The Hague with the object of organizing co-operative international action for the attainment of these ends. This Conference notes with satisfaction that the I.F.T.U. gives its support to international efforts that are being made to secure control and reatriction of the manufacture of munitions and war ‘material of every kind. We ourselves go further, standing for total universal disarmament, national and international, and we appeal to the workers of the world to co-operate with us in this demand, ‘and in the campaign we are initiating at this Conference temercure the abolition of the present disastrous Peace Treaties @.. calling of a World Congress to achieve A NEW PEACE based on international justice, democracy, and goodwill. IV. _ This Conference views with the greatest apprehension the international dangers of any military occupation of the Ruhr, and urges upon the Reparations Conference, which is shortly to be hejd in Brussels, that the best way of settling the problem of international indebtedness due to the war would be to abandon at once buth indemnities and inter-Allied war debts, and make the restoration of all the devastated areas a matter for inter- national agreement. : ‘ 15 It heartily welcomes the suggestion advanced at the Assembly of the League of Nations (1922, Report of the 3rd Committee) that the whole question of reparations should be considered from an international standpoint, and urges the Reparations Conference to recommend to the Entente Powers that they should . Ro CY secure the good offices of the League of Nations in bringing - together all parties for the settlement of the whole question. Vv. (a) That mass demonstrations should be held, in co-opera- tion as far as possible with all other friendly organizations and individuals, such as religious bodies, workers by hand and brain, youth movement?, and the International Association of Former Soldiers. ; oe (6) That this ghould be accompanied by an intensive press campaign. : (c) That the question of a New Peace should be made a. ominent feature of all political and election work. . (d) That deputations should be sent to members of the Parlia- ment, governments, and political parties. . (ce) That newspapers might be induced to have a questiqnnaire "on the question of making completely new international agree- ments, such as was carried out by the French paper Le Matin. On Wednesday, 6th Det., 2 Reception was held at the Hotel Wittebrug, when Mevr. Ramondt-Hirschmann welcomed the delegates. On Thursday, 7th Dec., a public meeting was held at the Dier- entuin. Miss Addams in the chairs; speakers: Lord Parmoor, Mile Dejardin, Dr. Marie Lueders, Marcelle Capy, and M. Zueblin. On Friday, 8th Dec, a public meeting was held at the Dier- entuin. Miss Marshall in the chair; speakers: Dr. Alice Salomon, Mile Mélin, Prelat Giesswein, Mme Plaminkova. M. Paul Otlet. On Saturday, oth Dec. a public meeting was held at Ruyter- straat. Mevr. Kamondt Hirschmann in the chair ; speakers: M, Ruyssen, Fraulein Heymann, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Graf Kessler, Emily Hobhouse, and Dr. Elisabeth Kotten. GP, Hedgoos & Son. Priatecs, Newton Street, Kingsway, Loedon. W.C-4