The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-09
LABOR NEWS
FROM BRITAIN
Proposal to Include L. S. Labor in
AnglO.SOviet Trades Union
Committee

been taken by the British Trades Union
Congress to strengthen fraternal rela-
tiOns with the American trade union
in doing with the trade unions of the
L. s. s. II.
Before the Russian trade union dele
CATION returned to Moscow the British
the suggestion that the American trade
union movement should be approached
with an invitation to join the Anglo
Soviet joint committee. Both Russian
trade unionists and the r. L. G. Cen
eral Council heartily approved this
suggestion.
Sir Walter Citrine accordingly en-
tered into direct communication with
William Green, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, suggesting
proposal to include representatives of
the organized labor movement of the
United States in the membership of the
AngloSov Trade Union Committee.
Sir Walter Citrine holds himself in
readiness to cross once more to the
United States to further this important
proposal.
to Britain had Il real value in
strengthening the ties between the
British and Russian workers. Every
opportunity was given to the Russian
delegates to see the magnitude of Brit
aims Industrial effort, and TO assess
the spirit of the British workers and
their keen sympathy with the Russian
people.
It is such Il tightening of the bonds
of friendship between the working peo-
pie of the United Nations that the
British n. L. G. has in view i'm propOS-
ing the inclusion Of the American trade
unions in this joint machinery of con
sultation and collaboration.
If the proposal natures according
to expectations il is probable that the
next meeting of the Joint Trade Union
Committee will be held i'm the United
States
1t is significant that the Russian
trade union leaders are rs enthusiastic
for the inclusion of the American trade
unions as the British II. L. G.
Swedish Officials i'm Britain
Considerable interest has been
aroused by the arrival i'm Britain OF
two representatives of the Swedish
trade union movement. They are Mr..
Gunnar Anderson, vice president of the
Swedish II. u. G. and Mr. Victor Anon,
assistant secretary of the Swedish II.
u. G. They are guests of the British
Trades Union Congress which is max
ing arrangements for them to make II
tour of the provinces, and to gather
impressions, much as the Russian dele
cation did, of the organization of Brit
iSh wartime industry.
They will have an opportunity, too,
of discussing the future of the Inter
national Trade Union Movement, 10
which the trade unions of Sweden have
been attached for many years aS af-
illiateS of the international Federation
of Trade Unions. One may recall the
fact that last Autumn George Gibson,
the vice president of the British r. l..
C., went to Sweden as fratcrnal dele
gate to their annual congress.
unite to create i'm the youth of today
ana tomorrow in intelligent apprccia-
ton of this thing we call democracy
and Il flaming loyalty TO all its pur-
poses. 1--WE must always capture the
next generation" That is one of the
FIRST things the dictatOrS set out to do.
Back of the guns and tanks and planes
and ships which they unloOScd upon
the world was II generation which they
had first indoctrinnted with their poi
SonouS id"ology. We who are the
guardians of democracy must destroy
utterly this barrier of complacency
which has almost been our doom,-and
we must kindle anew the flaming fires
of freedom in the hearts of men every
where.
Higolry, Indifference, SelfShnoSs,
Complaccncy-they are our deadlieSt
enemies. All of MS who love liberty
whether we serve i'm uniform. or out OF
it,-whelher we WELD gun, or tool, or
pcn.--Whether we work in shop, office,
store. church, school, or homr-muSt
strive together herr-and now-tu
break down these barricrS,-and over
come these cncmicS,-So that the world
of men and women of all the tomor-
rows may march triunphantly into he
greater and mightirr lands" of Free
dom and Justice and brotherhood and
possess them for all time To come!