The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-12-27
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

A bright future for the Internation-
al Labor Organization in cooperation
with the United Nations Organization
| is seen by Edward J. Phelan, Inter
national Labor Office acting director.
His opinion goes far to allay appre-
hension that the activities of the In
ternational Labor Organization would
be curtailed or hampered by coordina-
tion with the UNO.
There is no reason to fear that the
United Nation Organizations power
to coordinate the activities of the var
ious specialized intergovernmental
agencies will be employed to restrict
the activities Of the international La
Dor Organization, Phelan said at Mont.
treal lLO headquarters following his
return from the recent ILO confer
ence in Paris.
On the contrary, he. said, the estab-
'lishment of the Economic and Social
Council of the United Nations would
reinforce the lilo "for it will pro-
vide the means to secure the appli-'
cation of those international measures,
in the economic and financial fields
without which the HOS efforts in
the field of international social policy
must frequently fail"
The lilo, Phalen emphasized, would
welcome the coordination Of its ac1
tivities with those Of the United Ma
tions and those of the other function
al International agencies.
'The ILO today is ready to negoti
ate with the United Nations, and |
have every hope that when the nego-
tiations take place the results will
be satisfactory" he declared.
CAS- l said in a speech to the Paris
he added, Peace, produc-
lion and social justice are the three
pillars on which the future of the
world must be built. To them cores
pond the appropriate international in
first, the security machin-
Try of the United Nations, second, the
machinery Of the United
Nations, comprising the Economic and
Social Council and the group of spec
allied economic agencies. dealing with
trade, finance, food and
griculture, ETC., which it will be its
function to coordinate, and
bird, the machinery of the Interna-
ional Labor Organization, whose. task
/ is to promote social justice in full |
with other international
gencies which will be its natural
lies in this task"
Phelan called the Paris Conference
me of the most notable Of the ~ that
ave been held since the LILO was
in, 1919. He pointed out
hat 4s countries participated, the
argest number to-. attend confer
nee since the 1897 session in Geneva.
Notable, too, he said, was the fact
hat the delegates and advisers totaled
20, compared with $50 at the Phila-
lelphia conference in 1914, and 352
It the last prewar conference in Cen
wa. Id, l.
This wide representation was not
he only reason for optimism for. the
uture Of the lilo, he said. s J, :
important statements, he explain Il
d, were made, at Paris in behalf Of Il
he United State, British, French, and
'ther governments, pledging their
vholehearted support for the organ
zation. There are many reasons for i
that, this support will con
inue There is. the fact that the fLO,
With its tripartite coIhpositidns sof
management and labor
representatives, is the inevitable in
reflection Of the whole
development Of social progress SO far
IS labor and allied social problems
re concerned j. !. q. ..,,.-. T.