The Archive · 1929

Conflict with Existing Laws

Apr. 3, A conference of members of Pros ident Hoover's cabinet and officials of the Petroleum Institute of America, to discuss the proposed curtailment in the production crude oil in accordance with tha President's oil conservation pro-

The programme for the month begins on April 4 with a meeting of experts which will inquire into. the present crisis in the interzationat sugar industry, On April 8 the League's Permanent Economic Commission meets with a long agenda of which two of the most important items are those of official decision as to the advisability of international action under the auspices of the League overcome the crises in both the coat and the sugar industries.

The International Confereree for the Suppression of Counterfeiting beginning on the 9th will one deavour to launch an international convention on this subject. This will be followed on April 12, by a meeting of the League's Child Welfare Committee which amongst other things will draft an international convention on behalf of abandoned foreign children who are Drought up at the expense of the state in which they are found, The League's Preparatory Dis armament Cofimission meets April 15, when it is hoped that sufficient agreement can be reached. amongst the naval powers to permit of further progress later on ths whole question of disarmament, The programme for the month closes with a meeting on the 19th of the League's White Slave Commission which plats a further investigation of the status of white slaves and the international traffic in women gramme, met with difficulties to-day gre frien the Attorney General, Bin 0%, immoral William D. Mitchell, declared the Government will be unable officially to sanction combined action between the "government departments and

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