The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-08
Labor Sp0kesmen At international Meet


now gathered in Richmond for the
Moral Re-Armament Assembly in
A Ade national trade union leader,
S.Adustrialists, educators and MEM
bers of Parliament. In the party
from Great Britain which flew over
last weekend were officials of the
Mineworkers' Union, coal face
workers, James Haworth, Member
of Parliament of Liverpool and
Treasurer of the National Union
of Railway Clerks, and Harry Wick
ham, Labor Party organizer for 81
Parliamentary constit u n e s..
Among the workers in the French
delegation is a c. G. T. official and
Madame Laure, head of the Wo-
mems Resistance in France during
the war years and leader of 3,000,-
600 organized French women work
ers.
Duncan Davidson, Trade Union
official from Fords Works, Eng
land, gave a keynote for industry
when he said, "Moral Re-Armament
is solving problems in industry
without creating new ones in their
place"
The conference was called by
American leaders to plan show to
bring this answering ideology to
bear on present-day problems, at
home and abroad, while time re-
mains"
The leaders from abroad are
giving first-hand evidence of:
/. Record production in the coal
mines of Britain.
2. The growth of a democratic
[ leology for Germany.
~ 8. Teamwork between the demo-
cratic elements in European Parlia-
ments.
A. "A philosophy to unite the
workers of the world on a basis of
teamwork instead of class war.
James Haworth, British M. p,
and vice-president of the National
Union of Railway Clerks, said,
"When | was asked to come to
America | had many important en-
gagements. | decided that in the
the world today nothing is more
important than the work of Moral
Re-Armament. This is the fight
being waged for a new world. So
here | am. | am a leader of large
trade union of 10000 members. Be-
cause of the crisis in Britain
through which we have been pass
ing, and because of the austerity
our people have suffered, there is
a new response in the political and
industrial world. | think we are
getting a response in the way the
British people are putting their
backs into their work today which
is largely due to the teachings of
the Moral Re-Armament movement
throughout Great Britain.
"All my political life when some
thing goes wrong | have said we
must pass law against it.. But
through MIRA | have realized that
if any lasting change is to be
about it has to start with
" he, and that l can never hope to
be responsible for any change in
the world if | have not changed
myself. Here is the difference be-
tween Moral Re-Armament and
everything else. 1t solves problems
in a real way. 1t is lasting solu-
ton because our hearts are chang
ed. We live differently. Our homes
are different. Our industries are
different. Our countries become diff
ferent. That is the secret of new
world. The real issue of the pres
ent time is shall God or material
ism rule the world?' That is the
choice. The world must choose
quickly for the future of civiliza-
tion is at stake"
The Assembly twice gave a
standing ovation to Nine. Laure,
who for five years had been lead
er in the Secret Army of the French
underground movement, had been
grilled by the Gestapo and seen
her children tortured. She cited one
example of high courage when she
had led hundreds of silent, steel
wiled women in a march for food
on the Marseilles prefecture.
"Then liberation came," she said.
"An immense hope was in our
hearts because every type of per-
son had marched together. The
same faith had burned in us-to
get rid Of the enemy from our soil.
Then came divisions and the end
~, all hopes, as political parties di-
IWided and vitiated all we we had
wanted for the people"
Nine. Laure told Of attending
the World Assembly for Moral Re-
Armament at Caux, Switzerland,
where she met German delegates,
and of the painful struggle to get
rid of the deep hatred in her heart.
"At Caux saw the birth of a new
renaissance in my heart. | made
peace with the Germans. 1t isn't
easy to try to build together"
The growth of Moral Re-Arma-
ment in France has given "tremen-
dous hope to see what could hap
pen to resolder again what had
been split after the resistance"