The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-06-17
Labor News From Britdin

shopping facilities at these times Of the
day and make fair ALLEGATION OF
goods I'm short supply. In some fac
tories women workers place their or
ders for household goods in box pro-
vided for them at the retail shop, and
collect their supplies on convenient
day. And in many factories arrange
ments are made for parcels to be left
and then taken home when work is
over.
Shop and factory working hours are
often staggered to avoid overlapping
amongst women doing their shopping,
and in some factories priority cards
are issued to their workers which,
with the cooperation Of retailers en-
able them to do their shopping with
minimum of difficulty. A pleasing
feature of the report Is, indeed, the
cooperation in the wartime spirit OF
mutual helpfulness between factory
mana gements, retail traders, Chambers
of Commerce, officers Of the Food Con
troll, and the welfare officers Of the
Ministry of Labor. A very real diff
culty has been overcome by such CO.
operation.
Postwar Relief Proposals
The Agenda of the Labor Party's
Annual Conference will shortly be cir
culated to the Trade Unions and local
Party organizations who will instruct
their delegates to the assembly which
opens in London at Whitsuntide. In
terest attaches to series of special
resolutions to be submitted to the Con-
ference by the National Executive of
the Party. One Of these Resolutions
: calls for the setting up, as soon as con-
ditiOns permit, of a State Medical
. Service, nationally planned, regiOnally
administered and paid for out of pub
lie funds.
| A significant resolution from the Ma
tonal Executive deals with the problem
of postwar relief in Europe. 1t recog-
niZes the tragic urgency of the needs
of the occupied lands, and recalls
, Government declarations that arrange
mentS will be made in advance for the
speedy entry of food and other sup
plies necessary for rehabilitation into
f any part of the ''enslaved area" when
: this part has been wholly cleared of
German forces, and has genuinely re-
gained it's freedom. Reference is made
, to the fact that Il substantial amount
of food has gone into North Africa in
. the wake of the liberating armies
< Note is also taken of the fact that
preparatory work has been done to as.
5 certain the prime need of the Occupied
$ Countries, and to store food supplies in
readiness for the coming opportunity
l to provide relief.
4 But the significant part of this resO
4 luton directs the attention of the Con
e ference to the %xholesale, and bruta
y pillage of occupied lands" carried out
by the Germans, and to GOerings re
s cent statement that Germans will be
j fed even if all the peoples of those
y lands have to starve. Recognizing that
" in consequence "Germanys needs vii
probably be much less acute in most
respects than those of her victims the
conference is asked by its NatiOna
5 Executive to declare that in the distri
button of food to meet urgent need:
}. where supplies are short 1.-The people:
J. of the occupied and plundered lands
should have first claim" but thai
secondly, in accordance with Govern
;. :. ment pledges, lin the interests of earl!
4 victory and of future peace, and il
| loyalty to the standards of civilization
and humanity which the United Ma
: tions are defending against NaZi ant
5 Fascist barbariSm," supplies should b'
made available for the relief of enem!
= peoples, if necessary, as well as of th'
> peoples of the occupied lands; and tha
n efforts should be made to get neutra
J, Governments to take their part in th'
organization and provision OF relief.
!. On purely political questions of do
: nestle Importance the question of th'
u electoral truce" between the parties
under which by-electiOnS are not con
r tested by official Party candidates
takes precedence on the Conference
: Agenda. 1t will clearly provide one o
the outstanding debates of the Con
: ference.
|. A number of resolutions appear ii
. support of the Beveridge Report. There
), are, too, series of resolutions eX
pressing profound Indignation with th'
Nazi campaign of determination of th'
8 Jews and calling for practical actor
b by the United Nations. A number o
reports prepared by subcommittee o
!. the Pary's National Executive on vari
D. Gus aspects of postwar reconstruction
y will come before the Conference.
, Reconstruction questions are alS'
, brought into the forefront by resoll
}. tiOns on the Agenda, dealing particu
larly with questions of industrial re
Mobilization, housing and town plan
) ming, coordination of transport as
l. public service and reorganization o
the system OF local government Th
l. Party's postwar policy for the African
: and Pacific Colonies is also formulate,
in a comprehensive report filling 2
!. pages of print.