The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-07

Philadelphia.-An new international
charter of social rights, based on the
Four Freedoms and designed to en-
courage lifting of social and labor
standards in all countries, will be pre-
sented for consideration of the Inter
national Labor Organization at its
conference which is to open here
April 20
The new charter will be offered for
possible incorporation in any general
peace treaty and in any new or re-
vised national constitutions which
may be adopted after the war. 1t will
be a notwithstanding "social con-
tract" recommended for adoption to
the forty countries which will be
represented by their governments, in
dustries and labor organizations at
Philadelphia.
Other proposals contained in the
LILO report to be presented to the con-
ference as part of "a vigorous pro-
gram of action in the social field deal
with extending and improving collec-
tive bargaining in all countries and
with streamlining the machinery and
procedures of the International Labor
Organization so that it may discharge
more effectively it's widening respon-
sibilities.
Among the proposals is one that
the LILO be made an instrument
through which national and interna-
tional public policy would be scrutin-
lied from the point of view of it's So
cial desirability.
All the proposals are designed as
part of a program of international
collaboration for the economic reinte-
grafton of the world after the war as
essential to an enduring peace.
Declaring that experience has full
ly demonstrated the truth" of the
statement in the Hos constitution
that lasting peace can be established
only if it is based on social justice, y
the proposed international charter of
social rights declares:
"The conference affirms that all hu-
man beings, irrespective of race,
creed or sex, have the right to pursue
both their material well-being and
their spiritual development in condi-
tions of freedom and dignity, of eco
nomic security and equal opportunity,
that the attainment of conditions in
which this shall be possible must con-
stitute the central aim Of national and
international policy, and that all
measures, in particular those of an
economic and financial character,
must be judged in this light and ac-
cepted only in so far as they may be
held to promote and not to hinder the
achievement of this fundamental OBJ
jective."
The proposed charter goes on to de-
clare that "it is accordingly respon-
sibility of the international Labor Or
ganization to scrutinize all interna-
tional economic and financial meas
ures in the light of this fundamental
objective, and that in discharging the
tasks entrusted to it the international
Labor Organization may consider all
relevant economic and financial fac
tors and include in it's decisions anG
recommendations any provis on s
which it considers appropriate"
The report proposes that the char.
ter or "social m t e" take the
form of "a declaration of the aims ant
purposes of the International Labor
Organization and of the principles
which should inspire the policy of it:
members"
Heading list of questions included
among those to which the LILO shoult
give attention is "the maintenance o1
full employment and raising of stand
ards of living"
''The days in which the state coult
consider that it's duties were dis
charged if it provided some minimum
income for the unemployed through
insurance or otherwise have gone for
ever" the report states.
"Men and women will no longer tol
crate an organization of society unde
which those who are willing and anx
ious to work are obliged to forfei
their self-respect by remaining idl
through the critical years during
which we must rebuild our shattere
civilization.