The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-01-05
Green Opposes Carving
Up OF Poland, Urges u. S.
To Veto Churchill's Plan
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New York City.-Hope that Ameri-
ca will say "no" to those who seek
to carve up Poland's territory was ex-
pressed by AFL President William
Green at meeting here of the Amer
ican Labor Conference on Interna-
tional Affairs.
The statement brought resounding
applause from the audience of more
than thousand at the Hotel Commo-
dore, who also cheered when he add
ed:
II know you share with a feeling
of apprehension over what has hap
pened in the last few days. In wag-
ing this war we have been inspired
by noble ideals and high purposes.
Surely we are not going to engage
now in invading the territorial rights
of men and women living in countries
which have fought and suffered so
much"
Calling on Americans to remember
the lessons of history, Mr.. Green de-
clared that the portioning of territory,
whenever and wherever it has oc-
Cured, "has sown the seeds of an
other war" 1t seems inconceivable
that America should lend herself to
such policies now, he said.
This portion of Mr.. Green's talk was
an extemporaneous addition to his
prepared address but it reflected the
feeling of distrust and disgust with
power politics which permeated the
three sessions of the conference.
Appropriately enough, the meeting
was on the subject of Labor and the
Future Peace" and the resolution, pro-
duced at the morning session dealing
with Dumbarton Oaks, voiced the
groups reluctance to accept the find
ings made there as any more than a
step toward an adequate organization
for the maintenance of world peace.
1t stressed that "after a period of
transition" all nations and not just
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the organization; asked that the AS
sembly, composed of all states, "be
given more important functions as the
basis of the whole international or
ganization;" proposed that Excessive
dominance" given to four or at most
five great powers in the Security
Council be eased and that, instead of
unanimity to act against an aggres-
sor nation, two-thirds majority be
substituted.
| Still further, the resolution sug-
gested that the Security Council
should have continuing policy for
the reduction Of ornaments and that
the peace organization as whole
should set up "a system of interna-
tional trusteeship" for colonies of
Axis countries and inundated areas.
In his prepared talk, Mr.. Green
gave four major reasons why the AFL
has refused to participate in the So
called world labor conference called
by the British Trades Union Congress.
These reasons were:
| Such conference should be call
ed by the established international or
ganization, the International Fedora
tion of Trade Unions, after consulta-
tion with it's affiliated bodies and not
by a single member of the group, the
| BTUC.
2-The conference cannot promote
international unity because the pro-
miscous invitation issued by the
BTUC to dual labor groups will only
cause intensification of labor disunity
within nations such as the United
States and Canada.
3-The AFL cannot participate in
a conference where government-fos-
tered and government-domin un-
ions, which follow totalitarian philos-
ophies, are represented.
labor representatives from neu-
tral countries still under Axis domi-
nation have been invited, yet they can
not speak for their constituents.
/ "The American Federation of Labor
favors the holding Of a world confer
ence of labor convened under proper
auspices at an appropriate time," Mr..
Green concluded. "This conference
must be made up of the representa-
tives of free, democratic trade unions,
organized and administered by the
workers themselves and free from
governmental domination and con-
troll"