Montana labor news., 1945-03-01
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LONDoN-FP)-scores of G. Is,
fighting on European battlefronts far
from home, watched from the galleries
while their union brothers from the U.
S. and all the four corners of the world
planned the international labor Organiza-
ton that will carry on their war into a
peoples peace.
The soldiers and sailors managed to
get here for the World Trade Union con-
ference, using their burroughs, ~wangling
passes from their commanding officers,
passing by the ushers who demanded
their nonresident press tickets, filling
the galleries with khaki and navy blue.
The CLIO delegation got a real welcome
from the Yank unionists in uniform,
who Outnumbered the British soldiers
in the ranks of the conference specta-
tors. G. I. ~unionists not only watched
the daily sessions but a constant stream
Of servicemen flowed in and out of the
Mount Royal hotel paying respects to
the CLIO delegates, who carried on bull
sessions with them in off hours.
Among the G. I. conference visitors
were Sgt. Elliott Wax Of Los Angeles,
who worked for the international Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's union
and the Los Angeles CLIO council before
induction and is now with an ordnance
outfit; Sgt. Matthew Chavez of Brooklyn,
N. Y, Arnalgamated Clothing Worker;
Staff s Les Goldman of New York,
Local % United office and Professional
Workers; Sgt. Guy Trosper of the Holly
wood ScreenWriters Guild (unaffiliated)
who is still screenwriting for the Army;
CPO Jess Barnes of the Navy, of Linden,
N. j., who worked for the Oil Workers
organizing committee.
In the conference halls Albert J. Fltl-
gerald of United Electrical Radio and
Machine workers took time out to talk
UE shop with TlSgt. Fritz Jennings, for
mer union member and husband OF
American Newspaper Guildswoman Joan
Worcott of Philadelphia, and Corp. Paul
Lee OF the Army Air Force, formerly
president of UE Local 1877, Jamaica, N.
Y. Lee, stationed near London as a
photographer, came in especially to see
the CLIO delegates performing on the
worldwide stage.
Master Sgt. M. c. Dozak OF Milwaukee
spent his furlough at the conference
and enjoyed it. He wasn't previously a
union a but now he thinks he'll be
one when he's a civilian again. Seaman
Bennett Davies of New Jersey, a mem
Der Of National Maritime Union, brought
the greetings of other seagoing heroes to
President Joseph Curran here.
Duke Gurbst, aviation machinists
mate SIC of the Navy, former New YORK
CLIO member and son of an Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers union
(AFL) organizer in Winnipeg, got a spe-
cial leave to tell delegates of his scheme
for a new international veterans organ
ization to break the control Of the
American Legion. It would buy excess
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postwar shipping space to carry vaca-
tioning workers and veterans to other
nations. where they would be shown
around by foreign labor unions, creating
international good will to prevent fu-
ture wars.
Constantly seen in the galleries was
Staff Sgt. Barney zukas, formerly inter-
national representative Of State, County
and Municipal Workers in Los Angeles
and now a weather man at a Mustang
fighter base in eastern England, who has
a. 21-month-old son back home whom he
has never seen. Zukas said before leaV-
ing London to return to his duties: 1t
was the best furlough I've had since
landing in England. It's a huge h1t
seeing union representatives forging
world labor unity"
While in England, Curran and Presl-
dent S. H. Dalrymple of United Rupoer
Workers talked to some 10 officers and
men in a G. I. forum near London.
reported intense interest from the
G. is who piled them with questions
such as: vii there be jobs for all IN
the U. S. after the war? Do you think
so million jobs are possible? What about
the soldier returning to his job and the
man who took his job after Pearl Har-
bor?"
These boys are on their toes Curran
said. "They know a great deal and they
are thinking about the world ahead"
Dalrymple and CUrran assured them U.
unions would do as much as possible
to realize full employment, good work.
ing conditions and an economy OF
abundance for returned soldiers and civ
-anAnn- H. .I-nr