The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-15
EcA Union Men
To Have Policy
Making Duties

Washington (LPA)- Economic
Cooperation Administrator Pau
Hoffman's statement last week that
organized labor will play a vital
policy making role in the develop
ment of the European recovery pro.
gram was based upon a memo sub
mitted to him by Clinton S. Colder
and Bert Jewell, co-chiefs of ECA's
labor division.
Hoffman's acceptance of the
trade unionists' recommendations
distinguishes his statement from
the usual "labor will be consult
ed' handout, about which union
men have become justifiably scep-
tical.
The official ECA statement says
that Golden and Jewell will assist
Hoffman in the formulation of pol
icy, in selecting competent labor
advisors to ECA Country mis-
sions," in maintaining liason be-
tween ECA and the American labor
movement, and in solving "econom-
ic, social, technical and other prob
lens affecting the European work
ers and their trade unions"
American union men sent to Eu-
rope as members of ECA missions
will have plenty to do. Among their
responsibilities are establishing
and maintaining contacts with nom
Communist European trade union
leaders and channeling pertinent
information obtained from these
trade union leaders, together with
their own advice" to ECA head
quarters in Washington and Paris.
"Non-Communist labor groups in
the participating countries consti-
tute a well organized and influ-
entail democratic political, social
and spiritual force in each such
Hoffman's statement as
sertS.
The Jewell-Golden memo upon
which the official policy declaration
was based not only outlined the
functions which the ECA labor
division is to have, but set forth
the philosophy from which ECA's
relations with European labor must
spring.
Labor is not just another COM
modify to be mobilized and trans
ported. The concept of workers as
people must constantly be kept be-
fore the entire ECA agency. If the
man-power' concept of labor were
alone maintained and pursued as
,he ruling concept, the program OF
ECA can and may fall" the labor
,pokesmen explained to their col
leagues in the Marshall plan agen-
~.
Commenting upon the import
ance of organizations OF workers
n Europe they said: "A labor or
yanization may be regarded mar
rowly as collective bargaining
init performing an important but
periodical function within an in
lustry, or within the framework
If nations economy. Or labor
may be regarded
as a peoples organization
workers, hand and brain,
,ut mainly citizens, tax payers,
consumers, and self-con-
,cious advocates of democracy, and
defenders of democratic procedures
,nd civil rights"
In their recommendations Jewell
md Golden stressed the Importance
If labor participation in ECA
at all levels, with the
,nion men given the right to help
make policy, as we'll as do liason
work and reporting jobs.
Last week, a statement issued
,y the Labor Committee of the
Natl Planning Association closely
,aralleled the Jewell Golden sug-
yestions. A number of important
AFL, CIO and railroad brother
rood officials are members of the
lPA committee.
One of their proposals is that
he labor movement itself estab-
ish foreign service reserve"
Zach major federation should des-
gnate 15 to 20 of it's members who
ire Especially qualified for inter
rational service" They would be
,iven special training for ECA mis-
iions and be granted leave of alb
ence from their union jobs to serve
,verseas, if the NPA ideas meet
With general union approval.
New York (LPA)--Bert M.
Jewell and Clinton S. Golden,
labor advisors to Economic
Cooperation Admins traitor
Paul Hoffman sailed for Eu-
rope on the Queen Mary last
week. The AFL and CIO rep
resentatives in the Marshall
Plan administration will ad-
dress several important con-
ferences of European trade
unionists.
Their first stop will be Oslo,
Norway, for the World Trans
port Congress, sponsored by
the Int'l Federation of Trans
port Workers, of which Jewell
was an executive board men,
ber prior to his taking the
ECA most