The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-25
AFL WAR RELIEF CONFERENCE WEIGHS
POST-WA MEASURES

MARKING the end of a period of outstanding
UA achievement in the field of war relief work
the annual conference OF the officers and reglona
directors of the Labor League for Human Rights
official relief arm of the AFI, is now in progress
at the Hotel Hollanden in Cleveland. (Nlay 18th tC
27th)
According TO Abraham Bluesten, executive
director of the League, this conference will give
officers and regional directors of the League the
opportunity to survey and analyze Their expert
ences of the past year. both in regard to the Ma
tional War Fund and Red Cross campaigns, and
in connection with the League program OF work
ing to increase labors participation in the field OF
community welfare activity
KEYNOTE speaker during the weeks sessions
will be Matthew Woll, president of the League,
who will address the delegates and guests of the
conference during the afternoon OF May 24th, at
panel devoted to.a general reYeN OF the League
work. That same evening, MfsWoll will be one
of the main speakers at a session of the National
Conference of Social Work. which is holding its
seventy-frst annual conference in Cleveland at
the same time. In his address, Mr.. VOL will pre-
sent labor's point of view on the need for social
responsibility on the part OF all elements IN the
community in the postwar world.
The League conference has been planned so
that separate panels will be devoted to subjects
of special interest and Importance to the dele
gates, in connection with their work for the com
ing year Special emphasis will be placed, for in
stance on tie problem of community services and
their importance to the individual trade unionsts ;
and on organized labor's relationships with the
National War Fund and the Red Cross. Another
discussion will center on the use of publicity, both
as an aid to the progress of the Leagues war re-
lief campaigns and as a means of influencing the
general public's attitude towards organized labor
Other subjects to which special panels will bel
devoted during the conference include labor's own
war relief program abroad, which covers aid eX-
tended in the name Of the American Federation of
Labor to the workers of Britain China, andI
Russia; labors war service; and servicemen's re-
habilitation and community planning.
In announcing the conference, Mr. BlueSteinI
said: Nov that the European war has enteredI
its third and final stage, the work of the Labor
League for Human Rights has taken on a two
fold character. On the one hand, we are CON
tinung with our wartime emergency task of rails
ing relief funds that will contribute to the moralel
of our servcemen, and extend badly needed aid toI
our allies abroad. On the other hand, we are
now for the changes that will have to
take place in our work as as victory has been
won. We are laying the foundations, at this
Cleveland conference, for the aid which the Amer
lean Federation of Labor will extend to the free
workers of the liberated countries of Europe; we
are laying the foundations, too for increased la
bor participation in the kind of community plan
ming which can make the American city a
healthier and happier place for all in the postwar
world"