Speech #660113538

But suppose in Washington. making their decrees international law. states they donot demand them. suppose they want the laborunion this in Annex 2: mns place. They call get as isuch as lie cats get by the leThe commission expresses the hope that as soon as it may be possible roand. but they call cut lIs� wages and tely cas take lis job. all agreement will be arrived at between the higlh contracting o they can leave hi to starve. they can eonllere Iy the millions. with a view to endowing the International Labor Conference under the auspices of the league of. nations with power to take. under conditions and our Governin t underthis istrtiient is to be powerless as to be determined. resolutions possessing the force of international law. against the demands of the Berne convention to protect its own So that the bald proposition is that a body of tnen. assembledi shores. a rigltt accorded to it by international law. That is the and Constituted as this body of men now lnteeting. slill have schemne. that is the plan. the right. as soon as it can be brought about by the confirmance A very great )art of Amnerican labor has for many years (_titof Part XIII. to pass their decrees .relating to labor in any tended that it must be protected againisttlie goods manufactltredi country and in any clime. and that those decrees when passed in other countries by cheap pauper labor. So it has deshall immediately and without delay become international"law. ianded a discrinlfiatory tariff. Many ities have contended that with the same force as national law. governing this world and that was not necessary. because of natural conditions. but to all of the nations thereof.