ILO Should United Nations Body _ QUEBEC — General agreement that the International ' Labor Organization must co-operate fully with the new United: Nations organization, but that it. must at.the same \dare British Postwar Plan + India To Be Inadequate - = ‘By JOSEPH SEAROBEN a ay British Viceroy in India, Field. Marshal Archibald Wavell. is meeting this Mon- Sol Simla with leaders;of the All-India National Congress and the Moslem League. otfain world attentiom is focused on India, re Committee have .just ased from almost thrée. jail and where the Srovernment' has just pie proposal . which jo show good faith in Indian independence. 7 rid. attention upon In- ‘ | all “colonial problems ygown. in recent weeks. dn is the fact that the Japan inevitably raises nef 12 of -whether the wo have fought the war TH he war on their own ‘oing to share in the s @ reason is that the Sov- posed this issue. of iigiependence yery sharp- a4 San Francisco confer+ ssefhatever the actual hele of the Soviet Union igo against Japan, there iWeaking the fact that she fably play quite a dir- n all Asiatic develop- edai. that means colonial. de NbSSsF a ; rest TesSURE- : 28 freason for the, interest. f ll°of which is “peflectéd Ast British proposals— tllssure of very varying A@* the United States. “HE -- progressive “opinion favored the~ indépend- > colonial peoples: “And sited=States -throws- oe j to Sa various” ee peer “ening up of the British, ‘nd* Dutch ~ empires, i wish to penetrate, for *|° American goods and i vement “of American IMB jositions. ~~ 27/9 ile , there is a new stages ie “inside of India itself.+ me 15 issue of Amer- out, very important i been taking place in Il-India National Con- ' the Moslem League. [Bh Congress has~ been ‘moralized by British — with thousands of still in jail = ‘the Congress ;ntered the Kisan Sab- ‘euver, although it is that. ‘| will recall, where eight leaders of the Congress has (the Peasant Unions) and the All India Confederation of Labor. Both these organizations have grown during the war despite in- vier difficulties with red-baiting. Both of them are taking a real lead among the Indian people in fighting against’ the menace of Japan and the overlordship of British power. Added: to this has been the growth of: the Indian Communist Party ~(despite re- pressions which are: also grow- ing). And then there is a very healthy growth and -desire for unity inside the Moslem League. So the latest British plan is not merely a Tory electoral man- The latest plan is the British answer to the new strength and unity among the Indian people. It is the British answer to the Soviet position, as expressed at San Francisco. It is the British at- tempt to offset the pressure of the United States. What does the plan really of- fer? -The CGolonial Office still .| statids by the Cripps proposals of March, 1942. These proposals were a purely constitutional ap- proach to India’s problems. They ofter dominion status if, and when the main groupings of the Indian people get together, while behind the: scenes the British power operates.to keep the In- dian peoples apart. And, as you the. Cripps plan re- tains the system of the Indian princes, with their special treaty relations to Britain and with their .completely undemocratic control of about 90 million people. Well, this plan still stands. In the meanwhile, the Viceroy is prepared to revise his Executive Council, the ruling body in In- dia, to include representatives of the main Indian organizations. They would have all the posts, except for the Viceroy and the defense minister. And these men would be chosen from lists drawn up by the conference at Simla this Monday. Frontier tribal affairs (a. foukhy subject in itself) would lie with the defense min- A British High Commis- sioner w ould be sent to India, as though it were a dominion. ; And India would send _ diplomatic missions abroad: ister pe As you can see, this is.again a proposal of form; it does not ieuch at all on the substance of basic and. political and economic questions. Bight prominent -Congress members, including Jawaharla; Nehru and Maulana Azad have been released, but thousands® are still kept in jail in a completely arbitrary way. Furthermore, ‘it turns out that the revised Exec- utive Council would be made up equally of Moslems. and ‘caste Hindus.” This latter point has aroused sharp criticism.from the Congress, which objects to the jection of religious distinctions among Hindus. As Ghandi point- ed-out last week, the Congress is a political organization, speaking for Hindus (caste and otherwise) as well as Moslems. This. little provision of “caste Hindus” is a characteristic’ Tory technicality which exposes the ‘small-minded- ness and the trickiness of the offer. The Simla conference ‘itsélf will show whether the’ interim plan will prove atceptable to the Congress and thd League. But certainly, the basic issues in In- dia remain untouched, and the deadlock is far from solved. WAND STUDIG “Anything With a Camera” 8 E. Hastings St. PAc. 7644 VANCOUVER, B.C. “MOVING-TRANSFER’”’ <5 ASH BROTHERS CARTAGE 2239 CAMBIE — FA. 0469 #O Pension For 00 a Month Sion Plans c Miess and Accident fies all other forms of Insurance LOWTHER _e with ENTIAL of LONDON 5:0 Eyes. 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Vicente Lombardo Tole- dano, president of the Confedera- tion of Latin American Workers, asserted that the report did not Bridges Applies For Citizenship SAN FRANCISCO—President Harry Bridges of the Interna- tional and Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Unions (CIO) this week filed .a preliminary application for American citizen- ship. This was made possible by the-action of the U.S. Supreme Court last week in dismissing deportation proceedings against the union leader. Commenting on ed out that the deportation. pro ceedings were a cloak “fu: re- action to attack the rights- of workers to organize into trade unions and to speak out and collectively act against undé2mo- cratic forms and fascist policies.” These rights were “upheld and strengthened” by the court, he said. time retain its independent: character, governing, the court decision, Bridges point- was reached among give Saticient attention to the need for developing the less in- dustrialized countries as a means of securing high levels of em- ployment throughout‘the world. Henri Fuss, Belgian govern- ment delegate, stressed that the problems of labor cannot be dis- cussed except in relation to gen- eral .economic problems. The United Nations Economie and So- cial Council should express its views on labor proposals from the standpoint of their effect on the general economic situation, he said, and the ILO should be ‘free to express its views on gen- eral economic’ questions from the viewpoint of their effect on labor. Delegates from France, Bel- gium and Mexico expressed their regret at the absence of the So- viet Union from the ILO. The USSR withdrew from the ILO when it was expelled from the League of Nations in 1939 during its war with Finland. The gov- erning body is expected: to con- sider favorably an application for admission from the Italian government, and to refer it to the Paris meeting for action. Among the labor delegates at the meetings are Leon Jouhaux, general secretary of the French General Confederation of Labor,’ J. Hallsworth, general secretary of the British National Union of Distributive and: Allied Workers, R. J. 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