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reserves from which the contine
peoples can be fed.
The international Federation

reserves from WHICH tIlt cOIlTlIltItdi
peoples can he fed.
The international Federation
The General Council is also report
ing to Congress on the measures that
the International Federation of Trade
Unions as q worldwide organization.
Connected with this task of reorgan-
iZatiOn of international Trade Union
machinery, is the question of re-estab-
| fishing the Trade Unions in territories
freed from enemy occupation. The Gen
eral Council announces its intention Ia
approach the Allied Governments at
an appropriate time in order to ensure
that facilities will be provided for
again bringing the working classes to-
gether in bona fide trade union organ
iZationS in every country where Trade
| Unionism was smaShed by the Nazi-
Fascist tyranny.
The General Council emphasizes in
its report the Importance of the work
of the international Labor Office, with
which it maintains intimate contacts
Support is given in the report to the
LILO. recommendation that Govern
mentS should draw up, within the
framework of their postwar recon
StructiOn planning programs for the
development of the economic life of
their countries. Emphasis is laid in
discussion of this subject on the nee
eSSity of designing measures of inter
national financial cooperation, 50 that
parallel national policies for the eX-
pansion of employment may be pur-
sued.
Two important aspects of interna-
tiOnal Trade Union policy will be
brought to the attention of the Con
greSs. One of them is the renewal of
the effort to establish the standard 40,
hour working week throughout the
world when the war ends. Migration is
another post war objective dealt with
and approval is given to the policy of
Governments designed to encourage
migration after the war. Reference is
made to the policy of the British Gov
ernment in planning to provide facil.
tiles to demObiliZed soldiers who may
wish to try new openings in the coun-
tries of the British Commonwealth in
connection with which the Government
| is also considering arrangements for
the transfer of social insurance con
tributiOnS of migrants, and the main
| tenance of their insurance rights when
they go overseas
Service To Working Class Movement
| Trade Union interest i'm this matter
is the inspiration of another proposal
relating to the training of trade union
lists for service TO the working class
Movement With the help of dividends
now coming to the TUG. from the
national daily newspaper in which it
has substantial interest, an Educa-
tional Trust has been formed. One of
! its purposes is to provide scholarships
and burSareS to enable trade union
| lists of slender means to go through n
university or college for further edu-
cation, and to provide travel scholar
ships to enable students to study prob,
| PlllS vi NoihllS NliiSS
countries overseas.
Dealing with matters of more imme
date domestic concern, the General
Council devOteS Il lengthy section of
it's report to problems of war and post
war organization in which the Trade
Unions are involved. One of them is
the problem of the geographical distri-
button of industry.
Since war began the General COun,
Gil, in the interests of the workers, has
been trying to counteract the inevit-
able tendency towards the Over-cOncen,
tratiOn of the munitions trades in GER
tain areas. 1t is recognized to be prob
ably natural process, because parent
plants tend to gather their subsidiary
and satellite plants around them.
But from the workers standpoint il
| is, in the General Councils view. the
worst thing that can happen; and ii
has developed to such AN extent that
there are now districts where lodging
premium and where productive and
| transport resources are strained to
breaking point.
The General Council therefore wei
comes the establishment by the Gov
ernment of Joint Departmental Com
mittee to deal with the location of in
dustry 1t has one difficult function to
| fill, in bringing about the transfer of
plants that are not really essential to
the war effort from cOngested areas
| to districts where there are easier
labor conditions.
Five days are to be devoted by
Congress to the discussion of such
matters as these, and the time will
0hviauSly not he wasted