The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27

OOU members OI LHe WdfHlDR WHtCii
they issued to every trade union in
the country, declaring:
Communist agitation and infl-
tration threaten the European
Recovery Program"
The latest and most significant
action has been taken by the ex-
ecutive committee Of the 100000
coal miners of Britain, whose pres
ident, Mr.. Will Lawther, is also
chairman Of the Trades Union Con-
gress. They endorsed the TUG dir
ective, and sent similar instructions
to all their local miners lodges
throughout the country. Even more
significant was the executive COM
mittee's official criticism and re-
buke Of their own general secre-
tary, Mr.. Arthur Horner, who is
also Britain's No. / Communist
party trade union official, for re-
cent statements he made, and par
ticularly his support of the French
miners strike.
Labor Divided on Issue
Ten executive committees Of ma
tional trade unions with a total
membership Of 100000 have en-
dorsed the TUG directive. In direct
contrast they have been opposed
throughout Britain by the local and
area trades unions and trades coun-
ellis who have daily contact with
the mass Of workers in the factor
les and have been passing resolu-
tions against the TUG on this is
sue. This is causing serious con-
cern.
The leaders of British labor have
raised a battleline in the country.
The question going through the
minds of the workers is: as it the
right battleline to fight on?" The
workers of every nation are asking
themselves the same question: as
the clash really between Commun-
ism and anti-Communism ?" Actual
experience has shown the Socialist
parties and trade unions of Europe
that although the workers can be
made aware of the danger, they
cannot be inspired and united on
an anti-Communist program.
This | have learned from talks
have had recently with Socialists
in France, Germany, Holland, Bel
gium, Italy, Scandinavia, Switzer-
land and other European countries.
The warning of the TUG is cor
rect, but their method of denun-
citation is no real answer to a prob
lem which is at root theological
and so demands an theological
solution.
Uniting Force Rising
At this critical moment in the
history of world labor, when past
and present PHILOSOPHERS are prov
ing unequal to the task, new
force is rising across the world to
meet the need of the hour. 1t is
the dynamic ideology of moral re-
armament, which in two short
years has swept westward and
eastward across Europe from Caux
in Switzerland, to turn the think
ing Of the statesman and the or
dinary man from despair to hope.
Millions of workers throughout the
world have followed its advance in
their newspapers and over their
radios.
| have seen here in Britain over
100000 workers from the factories
and coal mines gripped by the
revolutionary change in peoples
lives and motives. Until now the
main barrier to a truly classless
and just society has been the fail
lre to change human nature. After
seeing and hearing the ideology of
MIRA presented in "The Good
Road" stage revue which recently
toured western Germany with gov
eminent backing, an official from
4 Balkan embassy declared: "This
Is a new dimension that we have
never seen or found"
Six thousand workers, union
branch officials and shop stewards;
100 delegates to the Trades Union
Congress; IL members of the TUG |
General Council, including Mr..
Will Lawther, chairman, and the
ice chairman, Miss Florence Han
ock, and the entire executive
,oards of 9 national trade unions,
AVE been among the $4,000 people
Who have packed out His Majesty's
Theater, London, during the last
weeks to see "The Good Road"
Workers theological Training
Because of this the workers in
l major industrial centers and :;
oal fields have started theological
courses. For example, in
he densely populated Midlands
lrea, Birmingham has been the
enter for the training courses and
hop stewards of IA trade unions
rom % factories employing over
O0,000 workers have attended,
18th coal miners from that region.
The primary aim of these train |
lg courses is:
To rouse, fire and equip the
'orkers of the world with an ideo- |
'gy adequate to unite world labor
nd remake society. I