WFTU Can Aid Women In Fight For Equality NEW: -YORK——The plan Trade Unions is a “very encouraging’ to form,a World Federation of implementation of the peoples’ desire for international cooperation, Jessie Street, a member of Australia’s Amalga- mated Ironworkers and Muni- tions Workers Union, stated in an interview this week. Mrs. Street came to the U.S. as -an assistant delegate to the United Nations Conference, where she was the only woman member in the Australian delegation. The WFTU is important, she ‘said, because “only by organiz- ing on an international scale can the workers of one country learn about the workers in other coun- tries and plan to improve their joint conditions.” Such an organ- ization can also play an import- ant part in the fight for equality for women workers, she stated. EAM Protest Premier’s Insult LONDON — Greek Premier Petros Voulgaris, in a heated outburst recently told an EAM (National Liberation Front) delegation that, “you call this government fascist, well, Tham a fascist,” the Greek news agency fZaritpress reported here. The outburst took place on Aug. 7, when the delegation, consisting of EAM leaders Partsalidis, Thanassakos, and. Krykos, had been advised ‘by the police to deal directly with the Premier after the latter had banned an EAM mass meeting in the Athens Stadium. Voulgaris, who had agreed to see the delegation, was reported to have refused to discuss why facilities should be granted for monarcho-fascist; meetings, but not for the resistance group. When pressed, he lost his temper and had the delegation turned out. Describing the Premier as a “satrap who out-Nazis even the quisling premiers,’ the EAM central committee called upon the Greek people to protest 2gainst the insult. Pender Auditorium @ | wtrs. Street believes that the war has proved beyond-a doubt that “efficiency depends on the indi- vidual, not on sex.’”? Women dele- gates succeeded in incorporating the principle of sex equality in the United Nations Charter, she said, and the WFTU can see that this principle is enforced in each country. . The discrimination against wo- men workers, which is a “men- ace to the living standard of all workers,” is realized only to a very slight extent, Mrs. Street asserted. She was critical of the fact that many trade unions pass resolutions condemning discrim- ination on racial or religious grounds but without any refer- ence to sex discrimination. The trade union movement, she said, is just beginning to recognize the great danger of permitting women to be treated as a source of cheap labor. Mrs. Street expressed the hope that the delegations to the Paris world labor conference in Sep- tember will include San adequate number of women.’ The labor movement has seen the need for organizing women, she said, and must now also recognize the need of giving them full representa- tion. The effort of women to retain their jobs now that the war is ever is part of the fight for full employment, she said. Under the United Nations Charter all na- tions are pledged to a policy of full employment, she pointed out, and “with the enormous demand for consumers goods, houses and social services in every country there should be no difficulty on the part of any nation in fulfill- ing this pledge. ” GENERAL EISENHOWER -Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe Eisenhower Scores Red Bogey MOSCOW, USSR — Generai “Tke” Eisenhower at a press con- ference here blasted anti- Unit- ed Nations elements who are still attempting to raise the Red Bogey cry by telling press cor- respondents that he was willing at any time to give the American Congress evidence of the splen- did cooperation he had received from the Soviet Government and its military leaders. Eisenhower also told of the warm friendship that had sprung up between himself and Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Zhu- kov, said the former Supreme Commander of the Western Al- lies, had given him a clear in- sight into Red Army strategy. Hisenhower has mentioned on many occasions the need of con- tinued unity and cooperation between the United States and Soviet Union. 63 West Cordova Street EE EE A, HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS HANDMADE JOHNSON’S BOOTS Phone MA. 7612 Meet Your Friends at the By Greek of the Greek resentative here. Following the April 7 withdrawal of recogni- tion of the FGMU, the Greek government recognized the Pan- Hellenic _ Federation of Greek Seamen, set up in 1937 by the Metaxas dictatorship, and ap-=- pointed Pan-Hellenic officials to represent Greek seamen abroad. Pan-Hellenic, he stated, func- tioned in Greece after the Ger- man occupation in 1941. The FGMU, with a member- ship of 5,000-6,000 constitutes 98 percent of all Greek seamen abroad, Pitharoulis said, while Pan-Hellenie is composed of sea- men engaged almost exclusively in coastwise shipping. The FGMU was founded abroad in} 1943 following the prior forma- tion of the Union of Greek Sea- men in Great Britain, the Greek Radio Officers Union, the Greek Marine Officers Union and the Greek Engineers Union when the seamen refused to join organiza- tions set up under the Metaxas rule. The four unions were of- ficially recognized in 1942 as was the FMGU when it was founded. The Greek seamen’s leader re- ported that a meeting of more than a thousand seamen in Pir- aeus on Aug. 5 approved the fol- lowing program for shipping re- construction: (1) Ships be bought with insurance compensations; i (2) More liberty ships be secured and be jointly managed by gov- ernment, seamen and shipown- ers; (3) Alien seamen be replac- ed while unemployment lasts; (4) unemployment bonuses and pensions be increased and be paid to the families of absent seamen; (5) abrogation of the Maritime Policy Seame NEW YORK—-Sharp criticism of the maritin government and of its efforts to's: Federation of Greek Maritime Unions by withdr: recognition was made by Emmanuel Pitharoulis, FG Pan-Hellenic wage agr July 14, by which sak reduced from $185 t. month; (6) Establishn seamen’s. hiring pool; pensation for casuaj Assistance to the pens The meeting dem2 respect of trade unior: the cessation of perse: Greek seamen and the F'GMU Middle East ‘Nicolas Karayannis—aj British authorities on 1944, and since hande the Greek government - interned him without ¢ also demanded the ces interference by ‘the ar age office with the hini men. ~ The Bee voted thanks to the Int Transport Workers E the British Trades U gress and the British Union of Seamen for th ance to the FGMU. that the present Gree ment had proved itse to meet the problems Greek seamen and j people -in general, th also” demanded that # government be repla representative one. 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