Montana labor news., 1945-03-29
WORLD LABOR CHIEFS
OUTLINE PROGRAM
TO GOVERNMENTS

III UUVENIVlflLIVI
LONDON - 0FP) - Program of the
World Trade Union Conference, includ-
ING It's demand for "a share in deter
mining all questions of the peace and
postwar settlement" was placed before
high officials of their various govern
ments by the leaders Of the labor con
ference February %.
CIO Delegate Sidney Hillman, Soviet
Delegate VASTLY Kuznetsov, British Del
egate Walter Citrine, Chinese Delegate
Gnu Hsueh-fan and French Delegate
Louis Saillant lunched at the British
foreign office with Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and the ambassadors of
their countries. Actual content of the
discussion was not revealed but it is
known that the unionists arranged the
talks in order to present their govern
ments with their request for inclusion
at the san Francisco meeting Of the
United Nations April 25.
The combinations committee Of the
conference adjourned February %. The
13-man administrative committee re-
convened in Paris March l to complete
the drafting Of a provisional constitu-
ton for the new world labor %organiza-
ton which the conference resolved to set
up. The Paris sessions will be attended
bv Hillman, John Abt, Michael ROSS and
Martin Kvne for the CLIO. The admins
trative committee will meet again in
Washington April 10 and will then pro-
coed to San Francisco with Philip Muir
raw and Hiuman as the CLIO representa-
tives.
Leaving the last meeting Of the con
tinuations committee, Hillman said .
I'm overjoyed at what has happened
here. These sessions have exceeded my
fondest hopes for complete unanimitJ
and harmony. U. S. unionists will b'
happy at the fruits of these historic
sessions"
In call to all peoples the continual
tons committee proclaimed organize
labors aims and program, lighting 3
path to a prosperous, peaceful worlc
through the dark war clouds now blan-
keting the globe.
our deliberations enable us to de-
clare that the trade union movement
are resolved to work with all hke-mind'
ed people to achieve complete and un'
compromising victory over the fascis
powers" the call said. I'm the east fina
victory against Japan is also assured BY
the countries warning against her. The.
will prosecute the offensive until uncon
ditional surrender is wrested from her al
well as Germany.
organized labor with so great a par
in winning the war can not leave u
others-however well%-intentioned ~ sol
responsibility for making the peace. Tn
peace will be good and enduring only !
it reflects the deep resolve Of free PEG
pies, their interests, desires and needs
The call fully Endorsed the decisions o
the Crimea conference on Germany ant
it's plans for promoting representativ
Governments in liberated lands, demand
ed a break in relations with Franc
Spain and Argentina and urged an en'
to the system of colonies and dependen
cies. It also reasserted the unanimou
intention of the conference to create
new world union federation includin
all unions of free countries on an equa
basis regardless Of race, creed or pc
litical faith.
Observers here believe that Saillant
brilliant leader Of the French resistanc
movement, will probably be named t
head the temporary secretariat Of tn
interim organization pending the secon
world labor conference, which meets j
Paris in September to ratify the consti
tuition Of the new organization. It
also expected that Saillant will be con
tinued in office after that, ending at
tempts to retain walter Schevenels a
secretary Of the new world organization
Schevenels is now secretary of the In
te~rnational Federation Of Trade Union
and is widely distrlsted by the Frenc
and other unionists, who suspect him &
having elaborated with the Vichy gov
eminent during the Nazi occupation.
In the one-week session of the con
limitations committee which followed ad
journment Of the conference, every i'm
mediate pitfall was c~ircumvented. Fl
forts by British delegates to delay worl
labor's assuming an active role in inter
national affairs have been forestalled b
the two specific meetings which have al
ready been scheduled-the administrator
committee meeting in April and the sec
ond conference in September.
Although a new world labor organiza
ton has still not been technically set VI
it will be very much alive and vocal O
labor's needs when it is most neede'
The rFTU will be quietly laid to rest {
relegated to a function commensurai
with its actual powers within the fa
broader scope Of a new world labor O
sanitation. Absence Of the AFL W;
regarded among the combinations con
mittee members as the sole flaw in II
progress to date. However, most men
bers felt that the program and actor
of the new organization will persuac
ALL leaders sooner or later that the
interests lie with the rest Of world labo