The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
AustruIion Labor
Talks To America

Albert Monk, President, Australia
visited L. S. A. and Canada early this
year,: Workers of America, l am
happy to greet you in the name of the
Australian workers. Representatives of
Sc Australian Trade Unions and of
more than 100000 workers associated
gether in Melbourne to confer with
Labor Prime Minister John Curtin and
| his Ministers. We are meeting to clear
up many difficulties which attend the
! forging of a 100 per cent war effort.
AS result of this conference, that will
be attained.
The workers are determined, as in
| our Government, to let nothing stand
| in the way of a successful prosecution
of the war. | wish to emphasize that
this is conference. We are solving our
problems in a democratic way by free
discussion.
The Government has come to us and
stated frankly what it needs, and we
are cooperating in satisfying those
needs. That is the way of life of free
men, the way of life for which we,
together with yourselves, are deter
mined to ensure victory in this struggle.
The delegates to our conference are
extremely gratified to have received
encouraging messages of goodwill from
the American Federation of Labor and
the British Trades Union Congress. l
will read to you the message of reply
carried by the Conference.
'Ihat this Conference reciprocates
the messages of the British Trades
Union Congress, the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations, sends fraternal
greetings to the workers of all the
| United Nations, and pledges itself with
them to fight and work until victory is
attained by all countries resisting
| aggression"
Charles A. CrOfts, General Secre-
tary, Australasian Council of Trade
Unions-My American friends: l en-
dorse what our President has just told
you, and, like him, | can give the sin
cereSt good wishes of the Australian
people. The workers of this country,
| | assure you, stand with the workers
of your country in the defense of the
| freedoms we have both won. Our coun-
tries are fighting . the external
aggresSors, the NaZi dictators who have
enslaved their own workers and would
enslave also us if they could. We and
you are fighting for the Maintenance
of social justice and economic security
can count on you, as YOU can count
on us, not to cease either of these strug-
giles until complete victory is won.
| jim Healy. General Secretary Of the
| WaterSide Workers Federation of Aus
tralia Longshoremen and workers of
America, | bring you fraternal greet
ingS from the WaterSide Workers of
Australia, or longshoremen as | under
stand you call us in the States. | join
with comrades Monk, CrOfts and Nc
Kay in the greetings they have sent
you and in the sentiments they have
expressed, and for the determination
of the Australian workers to see this
thing through.
The greatest responsibility rests on
the warfwOrkerS of our two countries
We in Australia have done our utmost
to make Australia a supply base for
the armies of our two countries, and
we have done wonders. But, it is Amer
lean industrial production which is
vitally necessary to the winning of this
war. And that production is useless
as fast as your comrades in the rail
ways and on the ships can carry it.
The Pact recently signed between
Great Britain. the Soviet Union and
the United States requires that even
greater efforts be put forth by the
workers of the Allied Nations to en-
able us TO defeat the Fascist gangSterS
in 1912.