The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11
Labor News From Britdin
lual rights and responsibilities.
ReDreseutatiOn Direct Way

representation Of women shop stewards
on the Unions District Committees in
the same ratio as applies to men. The
women will also be entitled to direct
representation at the Unions Annual
Conference, known as the meeting of
the National Committee But there a
novel and ingenious arrangement has
been made by which the woman dele
gates to the Unions annual meeting
will be enabled definitely to represent
the views Of the woman members in
the most direct and immediate way.
An annual conference is to be held,
delegates to which will be the woman
representatives of the women shop
stewards serving on the Unions Dis
trct Committees. 1t is stipulated that
each annual conference Of the women
will consist of fewer than 26 or more
than 50 women delegates. AS they will
| all be active members of the District
| Committees, and all of them shop
stewards too, they will have direct re-
latiOns with the women operatives in
the engineering shops. This conference
ought to be most useful and inter
esting fixture in the Trade Union year
1t is an innovation which fulfills the
intention of the Union officers to give
adequate representation to the new
women members in the governance of
the Union.
In so far as the initial arrangements
go, women with the same qualitica
tiOnS that men members have will be
eligible to hold any branch office, to
serve as shop stewards and to act as
delegates to Union meetings. The
Union proposes, too, as a matter of
policy, to secure as speedily as possible
an assimilation of women's wage rates
in the industry with the mems rates ::
equal pay for equal work, a principle
which is already embodied in Union
agreements governing the employment
of women trainees in the engineering
industry.
Anglo American Trade Union Unity
! Arrangements have now been com
pleted for the inaugural meetings of
the new AnglO-American Trade Union
Committee The British delegation
constituting one-half of this committee
will be going to the United States in
mid-January. The meetings are Sched-
uled to take place in Miami, Florida.
Most of the five British representa-
tiveS are well known across the Allan
tic, as they have paid previous visits
there, generally as British TUG. dele
gates to the American Federation of
Labor Conventions, as well as on other
occasions.
Sir Walter Citrine, for example, has
crossed the American Continent Sev
eral times from coast to coast. 1t is
largely due to his initiative and per-
sistence that the new Anglo-American
Trade Union Committee has been
brought into existence. One Of his col
leagues in the delegation is Frank
WOlStencrOft, who was President of
the British Trades Union Congress
last year and vino is the principal adj
miniStrative officer, as general Secre-
tary, of one of the alrgest Unions of
carftSmen in Britain. the Amalga-
mated Society of WOOdwOrkerS which
has maintained for very many years a
companion organization in the United
States and Canada.
With these two leaders of the dele
cation are three other prominent mem
bers of the T.U.C. Andrew Conley
head of the TailOrs and Garment
Workers Union was in the United
States in 1885 when the American
Federation of Labor Convention met
in Atlantic City New Jersey.
Expression Or International Solidarity
He told me that he looked forward
to making contact once more with
President DubinSky of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers, and
hopes to discuss with them measures
for bringing about a greater degree of
international trade union unity. He
reminded me that the workers in the
garment making and related trades in
the United States have, since war be
gan given practical expression to their
feeling of international SOlidar rity. In
saying this Mr.. Conley was only EN-
phasizing a point which Charles Jar
man, the General Secretary of the
Seamen's Union, impressed upon he
on Christmas day.
Charles came over to my house and
in course of conversation referred in
very appreciative terms to a fine ges-
ture made by the employers and trade
unionists in the fur industry in U.S.A.
who have sent about thousand fur
lined waiStcOatS for distribution among
the merchant Seamen on Russian con
vOy work. British trade unioniStS build
a great deal upon this spirit of solid
arity in the United States, as a guar
antee of success in the work of the
AnglO-American Trade Union Commit
tee.
The two other members of the
British delegation will be John March
bank, who has been for a decade Gen
eral Secretary of the great railway
mems Union, and Henry N. Harrison
one of the National Officers of the big
general labor union, the NATIONAL
Union of General and Municipal
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