The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Golden And Jewell Tell
European Workers Of
us Labor Part In ECA

Oslo, Norway (LPA)-Cfinton 5.
Golden and Bert NJ. Jewell, veteran
American trade union leaders and
labor advisors to Economic Coop
Grafton Administrator Paul Hoff-
man. addressed the Ihtl Transport
this week. They assured the rep
resentatives of 100000 trade
4 llnionists that American labor's
SAarticipation in ECA assures the
Ptorkers of Europe the opportunity
wAimprove their standard of liv-
70 thru the European recovery
ing hram.
pryysAcell, who represented AFL and
;,so Ss ID brotherhoods on the execu-
ram g%aSerd of ITF prior to his ap-
ivy oot to the Marshall plan
pol,r. ,a,, tos 4 the rS eyess that:
aksr arl;n tJbn Golden and ] were Sc
>,o.toa hty the three great union
eeuns 15f the US, totaling 15,O0O,-
OO01ndmbers, for appointment as
labor advisors to ECA. We are the
visible levidence of the support and
cooperation of all the American
trade Unions in this great joint ef-
fort for world peace"
He read the delegates Admins
traitor Hoffman's statement which
assures American labor spokesmen
a policy-making role in ECA, and
which recognizes the Importance
of European unions in the Marshall
plan program.
Jewell added: "Above all else, we
are not here to ask you to consider
any change in your government or
labor union policy. That is strictly
your business"
Clinton Golden, formerly assist
ant to CIO President Philip Muir
ray in the United Steelworkers,
said:
"The fate of Western democracy,
perhaps of the whole world, de-
pends upon what we as trade union
lists do in the next five years.
"You have heard about the So
called conflict in the American la
Dor movement between the ALL
and the CIO. | assure you that while
there may be perfectly legitimate
and understandable differences OF
opinion as to relations or affilia-
tions with world labor organlza-
tions. there is at the same time
almost completely unanimous sup
port for the Marshall plan and its
impIementation thru ECA."
Golden cited AFL and ClO par
ticipation in the drafting Of the
Hartman report upon which BCA
is based, and their joint efforts
now in ECA as evidence Of this
agreement.
81 have functioned," he added,
ain the service of the US govern
ment before, and | can assure you
that our American labor organlza-
tions have never had the oppor-
tunity for such full participation
in the formulation of policies and
decisions as that made possible by
Paul Hoffman, Administrators OF
ECA"
The American spokesmen volc-
ed agreement with the recent state
ment of ITF General Secretary j..
III. Oldenbroek that:
Properly planned, the western
European countries ought to be
able, while maintaining and
STRENGTHENING the democratic in
stitutions which we regard as
condition for satisfactory develop
ment, TO expand their economic ac-
tivities on very great scale, and
thereby bring about a speedy re-
covery and general Improvement
in the standard of living of the
common people"
They told the representatives of
transport workers from 81 coun-
tries that the US wants their adj
vice, and the participation of Euro
pean workers as equal partners in.
a joint effort to improve the llv-
ing standards of all people.
One of the first items on the
agenda of the lTF will be a pro-
posal by Harry Lundeberg, presi-
dent Of the Seafarers lnt'l Union
AFL TO boycott all ships Of Pana-
manian registry. Lundeberg char