The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-10-03
WESTERN WORLD DEMOCRACY

PEVOLUTION in Europe has brought home to
~ the New World the need of inter American
solidarity against threats to our institutions from
European aggression. New World freedom must
plan for it's conservation. For more than a century
the United States has been maintaining the Mon
roe Doctrine, warning outside nations against
seizure of American land. That doctrine repre-
sents Il conviction that the people of the New
World have right to work out their own destiny,
free from the traditions and aggressions OF Euro
pean states
The Pan-Amercan Union at first an agency
primarily to promote better understanding, has OF
late years been developing legal procedures and
agencies for practical cooperation by Pan-Amer-
can countries. In it's recent conferences at Lima
and Panama, it endorsed the doctrine of Pan
American solidarity together with proposal for
Joint action for military defense. Naturally this
was the agency which was called together when
military aggression growing out of European
owned colonies with the more serious conquest by
penetration through trade necessities, became a
real menace to our New World democracy.
The major surplus commodities available for
foreign markets are much the same for the two
continents, which means dependence on European
or Asiatic markets. With the world in the grip
of a revolution, economic necessities provide the
openings for political propaganda and alliances.
No country can long withstand barriers block
ing trade markets. The whole financial structure
will collapse unless avenues of credit pro-
Vided.
The Havana conference provides for the i'm
mediate future by setting up an emergency COM
mittee authorized to establish provisional admin
iStration for any European possession in danger
of becoming strategic center for aggression and
an nter-American economic and financial conStl-
tuition committee in Washington.
Provisional administrators shall be temporary,
guaranteeing the independence of the country in
difficulties. The economic committee is to pro-
mote ways and means for economic cooperation
and higher standards of living in all countries.
These plans for cooperation for the defense
of Western democracy set up the agencies to pro-
mote the economic well-beng Of our hemisphere.
AS the League of Nations with its high hopes
fades, our New World Union adds function to its
vital machinery and we become in very real sense
the trustees of the ideal that all men may live at
peace under democratic institutions.
Immediate provisions should be made for re-
sponsbe representation Of technical groups with
experience and information essential for under
standing and Interpreting economic and social
problems and conditions. Labor is an essential one
of these technical groups
The only sound basis upon which we can build
up a Pan-Amercan economy free from tariff re-
StrctOnS is upon acceptance Of the best standards
Of work and pay for those who must buy the stead
lily increasing outputs Of farms, mines and fac
tories.
The American Federation of Labor urges that
there be great in establishing cooperation
upon democratic principles, lest imperialism or
tOtalitarianSm turn this cooperation into an
agency for domination.