stands one of the J ‘ohito. = sign at entrance to imperial palace grounds in apanese guards still on duty )mintang Retains '-Fascist Control - YORK—Appointments announced by the Kuo- # party, which holds the monopoly of political pow- Fna’s Central Government, indicate tightened con- = labor and give a clue to the way the ruling party -naintain and streng- 'ontrol despite present = s for a more repre- ¥ zovernment. The ap- show that while lib- 'eology is being used, a anti-United Nations “1 the party are streng- paeir hold. The most -feature-is the over- *, predominance given — C. Clique, which has -eground contacts with puppets throughout 'General Stillwell and ‘or Gauss were in merican policy regard- , group. as the chief : block to unity and nese military effici- 2 made it clear that its was inimical to the eon of the war. Even agazine and the New tnes, which editorially = Chinese . government, y denounced it at the resent head of the all- organization board of mintang, with authority personnel appointments, Cs leader, Chen Li-fu, = Minister of Education 4)onsible for the “thought regulations passed for S students in America. s the step which caused professors in 1948 to ae petition that no further Chinese students be admitted to their university until the rules were rescinded. The head of the newly re-established “Farmer-Labor Movement Committee” of the party is Ku Chang-kang, Minis- ter of Social Affairs in the Chi- nese government. Ku was form- -erly a follower of China’s arch- and later adhered to the C.C. He was in Germany and is a great admirer of the Nazi “La- bor Front” which he has tried to |, quisling, Wang Ching-wei, trained copy in China. So long as he is in charge of labor affairs in both the ruling party and the government, there appears to be no chance of any official view that the chief function of is to control the higher change in the present trade unions workers on behalf of authorities, nor of the present labor law, which provides for government appointment of all union secretaries. Instead, Ku is likely to make He has control more vigorous. always been unwilling to entrust the organization of workers. even to the government controlled Chi- nese Association of Labor under Chu Hsueh-fan, preferring a more stringent type of regimentation by special secret police trainees. He has been bitterly opposed to the Chinese Industrial Cooper- atives. “IC ADVOCATE—PAGE 9 Hits ized workers of the world. the French General Confedera- tion of Labor as General Secre- tary of the Conference, and election of seven Federation presidents, the Conference heard Vasili Kuznetsov of the USSR deliver a powerful address in which he stated, “The strength and power of the new organ- ization will be exceedingly great. The international labor movement has various means at its disposal to compel the gov- ernments and the employers to reckon with it. What has to be done now is to employ those means effectively.” Kuznetzov said that the draft constitution” reflects the lessons Y learned in the last decade—the need for unity of the _ entire working class. A highly import- ant feature of the draft is the democratic character of the WFTU. All the needs of the into consideration. The draft provides that the trade union movement in each country must have autonomy. It is not the task of the WETU to interfere in the internal activities of na- tional organizations, but to help them.” INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Serving notice that the World ;Federation of Trade Unions in- tends to become an_ effective organization immediately upon SIR WALTER CITRINE British Delegate its establishment, Sidney Hill- man, head:of the CIO delegation, proposed that the new federa- tion appoint a commission to broad working masses are taken. “visit Germany and investigate economic and- social conditions in all zones.” Speaking on be- half of the administrative com- mittee, Hillman also proposed to the world labor conference here that the WFTU seek represen- tation in an “advisory capacity” on the Allied Control Commis- sion. fil .5. Big Business Asks WFTU Representation Full Application Of Potsdam Terms Only Guarantee For World Peace By ANTHONY JENKINSON PARIS—Representatives of over seventy-five million workers throughout the world were present at the opening of the World Federation of Trade Paris last week, as world labor met to grapple with many questions facing the organ- Unions Conference in After unanimous election of Louis Sallient delegate from “We recognize that only through the full application of the Potsdam decision will Ger- many not again threaten the freedom of peace-loving peoples,” Hillman said. “In the United States zone we know that Am- erican big business is effectively represented in the high bodies. We cannot look with confidence that they will carry out the Potsdam decision.”’ Adding that “all this applies equally to Japan,’ Hillman re- vealed that the WETU will try to send a similar investigating commission to Japan. “Nazism and Japanese imperialism must be completely eradicated,” he said. “We will have to look to German labor if that country is ever going to join the family of democratic nations.” Another strong plea for labor participation in international af- fairs was made by Mikhail Tara- sov of the USSR, who declared that it is “the inalienable right” of the WFTU to have advisory representation in the general as- sembly and the Economic and Social Council of the United Na- tions organization. Tarasov also ealled upon the WFTU to de- mand ‘severance of diplomatic relations with Spain and Argen- tina and aid to democracy in Greece. . Giusseppe Di -Vittorio, Com- munist leader of the Italian Gen- eral Confederation of Labor, told the conference today that the unity of all progressive forces in his country was illus- trated by its conference delega- tion, which includes Commun- ists, Socialists and trade union- ists of other ‘parties. COLONIAL PEOPLES S. A. Dange of the All-India Trades Union Congress, who is coming forward as the leading spokesman here of the colonial peoples, urged that the WFTU demand freedom for Burma, India, Indo-China and the Neth- erlands Indies ‘from British, French and Dutch rule. Charg- ing that “the people who demand freedom today are being shot down,” he proposed that’ the WETU form a commission to study the colonial problem. Earlier, the conference wound up a two-day heated debate on the draft constitution of the WFTU. A final draft will now be drawn up by a constitution committee, to be elected tomor- row. Debate ended with a spec- tacular clash between Sir Walter Citrine, genera] secretary of the British Trades Union ‘Congress, and Louis Saillant, secretary of the French General Confedera- tion of Labor and of the con- ference. In his speech, Saillant urged the immediate establishment of a permanent world labor organ- ization in order “‘not to confuse the workers with indecision.” Citrine had previously urged that the WFTU be set up on a temporary, provisional basis, and threatened that the TUC might remain outside, saying: “TUC acceptance of the consti- tution depends on the satisfac- tory outcome of negotiations with the International Federa- SIDNEY HILLMAN Leader of CIO Delegation tion of Trade Unions and trade secretariats. We cannot be bludgeoned into joining an org- anization by a majority vote.” Declaring that ‘fan interval of time is necessary before an org- anization can become an accomp- lished fact,’ Citrine said: “You cannot establish an organization by passing resolutions. You re- quire a staff and premises. It is necessary to have negotiations beween the new organization and the IFTU and trade secretariats to see how their staffs can best be used.” Citrine also criticized Dange for saying that the AITUC is joining the WFTU to speed In- dian freedom and__ socialism. “Once we get immersed in poli- ties,’”? Citrine said, “the organ- ization will split because the is- sues are wide.” He stressed that the WTFU must remain a trade union and not a political organ- ization. He further stated that the executive committee must have power to alter the rules of the constitution. Pointing out that WETU dues are one penny per member per year, apparently in reply to the demands for smaller dues by India and other nations where earnings are extremely Continued on Page 12 See WFEFTU SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1945 Se LUE ee enarser ree pela