The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Tocticul Defeat Of Politburo

For the thrty-frst successive year the l. L. 0. held
its annual conference and acted upon most difficult and
lengthy agenda Labor problems the world over have be-
come basic social and economic issues The h. o. is the only
in the League Of Nations that has continued func
ton in peace and has now taken It's place in the
United Nations This agency shares with all other inter-
national agencies the difficulties of dealing with people whose
detectives alien to democracy
After the First World War; the IT, S. S. r. mem
ber of the L. O. but found difficulties growing out
of the edfintOn of employers and workers which con-
cted with Communist Interpretation of these terms How
when Communist Party policy changed from coaDora
tion to dominaton the IT, S. S. r. withdrew and initiated
plans to bore within in all national labor movements
and the F. f. IT, At the request fother national centers
reaffiliated with the F. I. u when the Sovets laid
siege that organization demanding membership Return
of the American Federation of Labor assured rejection of
Communist proposals.
Then the Communists began to plot to destroy both
the L. O. and the l. F. T. u. They succeeded in substtut
ing the W. F. t. U. for the l. F. T. u under conditions
which gave Communists opportunity to dominate but they
did not succeed in scrapplng the l. L. ..
At the San Francisco conference three years ago at
which the Charter of the United Nations drafted the
Communists made efforts to replace the l. L. O. with the
give the W. f. r. u. advisory status to the L. o. under
conditions that practically inegated the two organiza-
tons
Although the l. L. O's constitution had been amended
conform the Charter of the United Nations which pro-
vdes an advisory relationship for nongoVenmenta organ
zatons there need for labor to ask such advisory
status because each national delegation included parcpa
ing representatives of labor An advisory international labor
relationship might nufy the effectiveness of direct nation
al representatives functonng as integral parts of the L.
to ntegrate the W. f. r. u into the L. 0. with minimum
of discrimination Everything except voting right to be
available.
Since the W. f. T. u. is controlled by the Communists,
this would facilitate Poitburo participation without
sbiy. The recently adjourned international Labor Con-
ference decided this confused issue by rayng advisory
relationship for the w. f. T. u. but comforting the
status ON both the Iner-American Confederation of Work
and the Christian Trade Unions The dangers from this
relationship disappear the number who share increase
The second gain for free trade unions in the L. O. is
the removal Of all Communists from office, including
Vncente ombardo Toedano the agent of Moscow in Latin
American labor centers oledano lost office and influence
organization. Although he is no longer the Governing
Body of the l. L. o. he remains the Executive Board of
the w. f. T. u.
The San Francisco conference of the l.. O. adopted
a constructive convention the right of workers and
poyers to organize and to conduct their affairs without in
reference and with due respect to the laws of their
tries This convention would also guarantee the principle of
Collective bargaining.
These outstanding gains for free trade unions in
all lands Our United States labor delegate elected to the
Governing Body with the approving vote of all excepting
the Communists. The drectorgeneral of the L. l.. o.
is a citizen Of the United States