The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-14
!. COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

| Nazi officials have been heard on the
air complaining that the terms of un-
conditional Surren der pronounced
months ago by the Allies are unreason-
able and too severe. Such cruelty, they
insist, is inhuman and can never be
agreed to by self-respecting Germans.
These self-respecting Germans are
| familiar to the world. They advocate
force and the only thing they respect
is force. It's now coming right at them,
and they're squirming, crying for sym
pathy.
Demanding mercy when they at long
last see defeat staring them in the face
and Allied troops on German soil will
not wipe from our memories the Ger
mans wanton destruction of every
thing and everyone that crossed their
path.
Nothing can make us forget their
determination to destroy as they ad-
vanced. Nothing should diminish our
duty of assuring the world that never
again will this master race of super
men be able to conquer anything.
Relief supplies of every description
from cigarettes to surgical instru-
ments. are covered in the AFL's 1914
war relief program for the workers of
the United Nations, according to Abra-
ham Bluestein, executive director of
the Labor League for Human Rights,
official relief arm of the AFL.
Labor's own war relief program,
jointly sponsored by AFL and CIO
through the war relief societies of the
National War Fund, includes such pro-
iects as feeding famine victims in
India, establishing vocational schools,
child welfare centers and workers rest
houses in China, supplying medical
equipment for the workers of Pales-
tine, both Jewish and Arab, and main
tanning merchant seamen's homes in
Britain for sailors of all the United
Nations. Bulk shipments of warm
clothing for the women of Russia were
an item in this past winters program
and additional shipments are planned
during the rest of 1914.
These projects through which aid
goes to the workers of the United Ma
tions, have been in existence for more
than = years. A typical project, well
fare center i'm one of the smaller indus
trial cities of China, served more than
10000 workers i'm its first 3 months of
existence, and the rest of labOr's re-
lief program has proved to be an
equally important contribution to the
health and morale of our allies, Blue
stein said.
In broadcast to the workers of
Latin America, President William |
Green of the American Federation of |
Labor emphasized some truths that |
need saying again and again. Our
first interest" he said, rs to estab- |
ish and maintain international peace
There can be no security for workers
in any land as long as wars are per
mitted to occur. The postwar pro-
gram of the AFL recognizes the fact |
that war is the great destroyer and the
most serious enemy to the aspirations
IF mankind.
international peace can only be
attained by international cooperation
among the nations of goodwill In the
United States and in other lands this
ruth is now accepted.
"The causes of war are not only |
political but economic in character.
Poverty and hunger are the whips that
lrve people to war despite the best
resolutions i'm the world. And labor
,ealizes now more clearly than ever
utes danger to prosperity every
where