Meany Rebuked At Conference
WFTU Constitution Is Approved

end of.the war the problems of re conversion and full employment are to the
ll over the Continent workers are demonstrationg for continued full employ-
idequate rates of pay.

izil Fascist Chieftain Sends

tructions From Exile —

* JANIERO — Almost
pers in this city pub-
yaid advertisements an
manifesto sent from
ortugal, by the exiled
*eftain Plinio Salgado,
<itieal directives to his
for Brazil’s present
“campaign. Indicating
of the fascist Integ-
vival, Salgado names
‘presentative in Brazil
 Padilha, a high offic-
_Bank of Brazil.
nifesto affirms the ob-
£ Integralism as ‘‘to
politipally to sais
‘ritual principles.” Sal-
‘ommends to his sup-
shat they vote in the
ng presidential elec-
the candidate who
2s the basic points in
egralista
nions and popular~ or-
ns have sttrongly de-j
the renewal of Integra-
vities and have called
e€ government to act
the revival of Brazilian
charging that it has
en to sabotage peace
ional reconstruction.

program

sation was caused in
Pinion by: the publica-
a Berlin dispatch re-
the participation of the
} political police in an
nt -with the German

for the purpose of
“communism” and
tts “dangerous to the

state.” Maj. Felinto Muller, who
was police chief at the time and
who is one of the leading pro-
ponents of corporativism in
Brazil, denied participation ‘in
an interview with O. Globo.

In Brazil’s Independence Day
celebration, 40,000 workers -par-
aded through the streets of this
city with signs and banners de-
manding trade union ‘freedom
and the calling of a constitu-
tional assembly to frame a new
constitution. ‘The demonstration
was held under the auspices of
the Labor- Unity Movement
(MUT), Brazil’s new trade un-

‘ion counter. In a speech on the

same occasion President Getulio
Vargas praised the Brazilian.
Expeditionary Force, which
fought in Italy, and added:

“Today the Brazilian people
have a political mentality quite
different from that of the old
days.” He said that the people
‘will not lack guarantees of
electoral -liberties.’”? Meanwhile,
Vargas has granted amnesty to
all aecused of crimes of expres-
sing opinions against the Presi-
dent or the regime. Under the
terms of the amnesty, Gilberto
Fireyre, noted sociologist who
was recently indicted by state
authorities in Pernambuco for
attacks on the regime in 1944,
will not be prosecuted.

Urge EconomicPlanning

Same Basis As USSR

BLACKPOOL—In one of the most forthright speeches
of his career, Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the
British Trades Union Congress, delivered a vigorous reply
to the argument against AFL participation in the World

“Federation of Trade Unions ad-

vanced by George Meany, AFL
fraternal delegate ta the 77th
TUC convention here. The TUC
convention voted general ap-
proval of the WFTU draft sta-
tutes, with a number of recom-
mendations for amendments.

“Tt must be understood in
the U.S. that the TUC be-
lieves in international trade
union unity” Citrine said amid
loud applause. “We have no
strictures to make against the
CIO,” he declared. “We find
the same sincerity of pur-
pose in our own ranks.” Deal-
ing with the AFL attitude to-
ward Secviet trade unions, Cit-
rine stated: “We have known
since 1917 that there were no
private employers in the
USSR. The Russian unions
must therefore necessarily dif-
fey somewhat in structure.
They have different kinds of
problems to deal with. I, don’t
think any of us have the right
to charge that the Soviet
unions. do not look after the
rights of their members.

‘J think it would be excel-
lent if the British government
would plan economically and
socially as does: the USSR. I
don’t think there are no mis-
takes made in Russia, but no-
body can say it isn’t a good
thing to plan these days. It
would be a good thing if Brit-
ish uniens ° were taken into
confidence on the highest gov-
ernment levels as are the Rus-
siaon unions.” :

After stating that the London
world labor conference last Feb-
ruary was “the most representa-
tive I have ever attended in my
life,’ Citrine charged that the
AFL was “trifling” in comp-
plaining that the International
Federation of Trade Unions did

Railroad Brotherhood Will
have Delegates At Paris Parley

WASHINGTON — _ Repres-
entatives of four major railroad
brotherhoods will attend the

Paris convention of the World
Federation of Trade Unions, it
was announced -here ~ recently.
The four brotherhoods’ desig-
nated two officials to represent
them. at the Paris convention.
They were instructed *o con-
cern . themselves _ particularly

with the charge that the WFTU
is controlled by Soviet
leaders.

Martin Miller, legislative rep-
resentative, will attend for the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train-
men and Jonas .McBride, vice-
president of the Brotherhood of
Lekomotive Firemen and En-

/— PACIFIC ADVOCATE

labor

gineers, will represent his own
union and the Order of Railway
Conductors and the Dispatchers
and Signalmen. Meanwhile, AFL
local bodies throughout the
country are preparing to name
unofficial observers to ‘the Paris
convention. The first of these
named is Nick Lazaris of the
AFL Hotelsand Restaurant Em-
ployees Local 237 of Pittsburgh.
Others are expected to be named
in the next week.

The CIO delegation to the
Paris convention will be headed
by Sidney Hillman, president,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
and will include: president John
Green, Industrial Union of

Marine and Shipbuilding Work-
ers; president Emil Rieve, Tex-

tile Workers; president Joseph
Curran, National Maritime Un-
jon; vice-president Allan Hay-

secretary - treasurer
James B. Carey; general coun-
sel Lee Pressman; director of
organization John Brophy; pub-
licity director Len DeCaux;
president Albert Fitzgerald),
United Electrical Worekrs; leg-
islative representative Tom
Burns, United Rubber Workers;
attorney John Abt, ACW; pub-
licity director Vincent Sweeney,
United Steelworkers; and Mi-
chael Ross, director of interna-
tional affairs.

wood;

not call the conference, pointing
out that the AFL made it clear
that it would not have partici-
pated even if the IFTU had call-

‘ed the conference.

Citrines’ remarks ‘were occa-
sioned by Meany’s speech here
recently in which he reiterated
that the AFL’s refusal to par-
ticipate in the WFTU was based
on “the inclusion of representa-
tives of the CIO and of the
pseudo-trade unions of Rusia.”
Meany’s statement was greeted
with cries of “shame” and
“tommyrot’? from the delegates.
Ebby Edwards, chairman of the
conference, had to appeal to the
delegates sense of fair play and
the rights of free speech in
order to allow Meany to con-
tinue.

Meanwhile the TUC general

fcouncil issued an addition to its

report on the WEFTU, which was
adopted in full by the confer-
ence. “After considering the re-
ports of meetings of the IFTU
general council and of trade sec-
retariats,’” the report said, “the
TUC general council has decid-
ed that its representatives at the
Paris conference should support
the following proposals with a
view to assisting the effective,
early establishment of the
WETU.”

The conference, which was at-
tended by 754 delegates repre-
senting 6,576,000 members, was

addressed by Labor Minister
George Isaacs, former ~ TUC
chairman, who paid tribute to

the role of the WFTU and the
International Labor Organiza-

tion. Isaacs. welcomed the spirit,

of TUC resolutions on manpow-
er which called on the govern-
ment to “vigorously accelerate”
demobilization and to relax la-
bor controls as soon as possible,
while retaining a guaranteed
weekly wage.

The conference was addressed
by Prime Minister Clement Att-
lee, Labor party chairman Har-
cld Laski, Leon Jouhaux, gen-
eval secretary of the French
General Confederation of Labor
and Mikhail Tarasov, secretary
of the All-Union Central Coun-
cil of Trade Unions of the USSR.
Roth the latter emphasized the
importance of the WFTU.

After hailing the British elec-
tion results, Jouhaux said: “TI
have the hope and _ conviction
that despite the bastard elec-
toral system our government has
given us, the French electors
will take the same road as the
English.” Tarasov, who formally
protested Meany’s speech to the
TUC general council, said: “The
hopes of workers throughout
the world lie in the formation
of the WFTU. We will never
ellow the enemies of democracy
and unity of the working class
to gather their forces once more
to plunge the workers into a
new war.”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1945.

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