The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
POSTWAR GOALS FOR ALL
UNION MEMBERS

AS set forth by the Textile Worker
Union of America at its convention
in May
THIS is WAR
This is war-and labor is in it. |
is war in which humiliation is thu
alternative of victory. Labor recog
nizes the fact that if the United Ma
lions lose the war, whole peoples ant
whole PHILOSOPHERS will perish
Labor also is not unaware of the
implications of victory We mus
win the peace no less than uncondi
tional surrender, lest the century Of
the common man be bitter mockery
and cruel jibe. We must win the
peace We must win it now. The
road ahead is rough and tortuous, but
the goal guides us toward a better
world We believe it our duty to our
country and our union to trace out
the broad pattern of the world of to-
morrow.
We urge the immediate extension
of all necessary relief to the suffer
ing peoples of war-stricken countries.
Food, clothing, shelter, medical serv-
ices and financial credit for recon
struction are needed now They
should be given now, with due care
being exercised so that the help die
tated by a democratic conscience may
not aid the foes of democracy
ho,. OF ha of tho
peace table. The treaty of Versailles,
after World War l, was a mean and
petty treaty, a vicious instrument of
destruction, in very large part be-
cause it's goals were those of the i'm
perialist, not of the worker. This
time it must be different if any diff
ferent sort of peace is to be achieved.
Labor must make its voice heard.
Those who do the worlds work have
every right to help build the peace
full world in which to do that work.
Only the direct representation of the
labor movements of the world at the
peace-conference table will make this
possible.
LEND FOR PEACE
When peace is made, this country
develop an international organization
for the perpetuation of the peace.
This organization must be democrat
ically controlled and must be instru-
mented with machinery for the medi-
alton and arbitration of international
disputes. By this means must the de-
mocracies halt future aggression at
the only point where dynamic aggres
sion can be halted, before it gains
impetus. No nation can any longer
isolate itself from the other nations of
the world.
The nations of the world must ar
rive at international agreements to
eliminate unreasonable tariff barriers
and monopoly control of raw materi |
ais. International banking, currency |
and investment arrangements must |
be promoted and the resources of the |
whole world must be developed to |
permit each people to make it's own
greatest economic, social and political
gains 1t will be necessary, as we see
it, to set up international banks so
that, through loans to backward ma
lions and to countries whose econo-
mics are disrupted by the war, social
and industrial development may pro-
ceed Only by extending the indus
of retarded nations will it
be possible, we believe, to raise the
living standards of the people of the
world.
Loans for industrial developments,
however, must not be made without
the cardinal proviso that minimum
standards be observed in wages, hours
and working conditions, and that the
rights of workers to bargain collec-