ally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, denouncing the vicious. Peron regime.

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Peron has

By TIM BUCK. .°*

@ Minister Mackenzie King’s sud-
Edeparture for Europe is being
throughout the labor move-
2e need for action on the acute
| problems of unemployment,
pgislation to guarantee union
ind coliective bargaining rights,
fand other urgent problems, is
Eg that it is felt the Prime Min-
Bild have felt morally bound to
started upon them before leav-
untry.’ Because of that, Labor’s
pwill be supported by all pro-
B eople.
fer aspect of the Prime Minis-
ied. departure which calls for an
@ritical attitude is the fact, im-
he terms of Mr. Attlee’s “short
fivitation to Mr. King and other
wealth prime ministers, that the
in for the forthcoming discus-
(London is to be found in new
of British foreign policy. That
it is a cause for concern to all
as that Mr. King, in his state-
ithe House of Commons as to
Bf his trip, refrained rather ob-
irom giving an assurance that
#ontinue to support the Yalta and
| agreements in letter and spirit.
Lot even re-affirm the broad prin-
tat he himself enunciated at

conference of Commonwealth
Tinisters, upon. which relation-
‘hin the Commonwealth and be-
se Commonwealth countries and
= of the world should be based.
eother hand he did make vague
ets to the effect that decisions to
< during the coming months may
te what sort of world we are
live in—for all the world as
B:he principle agreements and de-
sion the question of the peace
at, particularly in Europe, had
=. already arrived at.
tt Prime Minister King should
= phasized in his statement to the
-£ Commons is that Canada stands
y the agreements arrived at be-
che late President RooSevelt,

Hse) doi!

iport United Nations’ Unity

Churchill and- Stalin at Yalta, and be-
tween President Truman, Attlee and
Stalin at Potsdam, and by the principle
of basing the maintenance of world
peace upon great power unity as re-
affirmed at San.Francisco. ‘The much
publicized. and grossly misrepresented
conflict in the conference of foréign min-
isters at London has been, in fact, a con-
flict between the efforts of the Soviet
delegation led by Molotov to abide and
be guided by Yalta and Potsdam agree-
ments in the letter and spirit and the
persistent efforts of the British and U.S.
delegations led by Bevin and Byrnes to
re-establish old policies, spheres of int-
erest and “‘diplomatic procedure.”’

It is almost as though, as L. S. B.
Shapiro, a foreign correspondent in Paris,
suggests, the British and American gov-
ernments, having developed the atomic
bomb and hoping to keep the secret to
themselves, ,were now seeking to revise
previous agreements and relationships,
particularly as they concern the settle-
ment of postwar questions, in the be-
lief that the terribly destructive atomic
bomb has changed the balance of: mili-
tary power. The suggestion is not fan-
tastic. The openly provocative anti-
Soviet attitude displayed, the insistence
that the governments of countries bord-
ering the Soviet Union in Europe must
be satisfactory to the United States and
British governments while “‘the United
States alone will make final decisions
about Japan,’’ these and half a dozen
similar examples reflect a dangerous
trend in the changing attitude of the
British and United States governments
towards the principles upon which the
future peace settlement is to be based.

Mr. King intimates that he will par-
ticipate in settlement of all questions in
which Canada has an interest. Canada
has an interest, above all, in helping to
make peace secure. Mr. King must be
pressed to support the principles upon
which the historic unity of the United
Nations in the struggle against fascism
was based. Any support to the efforts
now being made to disrupt that unity
would be a betrayal of Canada.

Union Body Represents
,000 Organized Workers

Commence Building

Permanent

Federation

By ANTHONY JENKINSON

PARIS — The world labor conference voted unanim-

ously that its administrative

committee should investigate

a charge by Greek trade unions that they are being prevented
by their government from sending delegates to the confer-
ence. The resolution was proposed by CIO delegate Josep

Curran.

The charge was made in a
cable addressed to the- confer-
ence credentials committee. A.
F. Papworth of Britain, who re-
cently visited Greece on behalf
of the British Trades Union
Congress, seconded the motion,
which was also supported by the
Cyprus delegation. A _ similar
charge by Transvaal unions was
also referred to.the administrat-
ive committee. The committee
will also consider an application
from Nick Lazaris, an observer
from the AFL Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Pitts-
burgh. local, to be given the floor
to present the views of the AFL

Committee for Participation in a
World Trade Union Federation.

In other important actions, the
conference accepted the report of
its ceredentials committee and
elected a constitution committee
—the key body of the confer-
ence. On behalf of the bureau of
management, CIO delegation

AFL Observers
At Paris Parley

PARIS. — Nick Lazaris and
Charles Collins, observers at the
world labor congress here for
AFL Hotel and Restaurant Em-
ployees Pittsburgh local and the
Negro Labor Victory Commit-
tee respectively, were not giver
the floor at the conference owing
to the executive bureau’s appar-

ent reluctance to antagonize the
leadership of the AFL. Numer-
ous renewed pleas to the AFL
to participate in the new World
Federation of Trade Unions were
made by conference delegates
and CIO spokesmen reaffirmed
their hope that the AFL would
joint the new federation.

Lazaris sought the conference
floor to present the views of the
AFL Committee for Participa-
tion in a World Trade Union
Federation. Instead, the observ-
ers distributed the resolution
favoring AFL participation ad-
opted at the conference of AFL
leaders in Cleveland last July
where the AFL committe was
formed. They also distributed
copies of the pamphlet entitled
“The AFL and One World of
Labor’ written by Courtenay
Ward, chairm&n of the commit-
tee favoring participation, who
attended the February world la-
bor conference in London as an
observer.

head Sidney Hillman-~ proposed
16 candidates for the constitu-
tion committee after the confer-
ence decided, despite pressure
from the small countries for en-
largement, to confine it to that
number. The committee, as pro-
posed by Hillman and _ later
elected by the conference, in-
cludes:

Hillman, Sir Walter Citrine of
Britain, Vasil Kuznetsov of the
USSR, Benoit Frachon of
France, Chu Hseuh-Fan of China,
G. Anderson of Sweden, M. But-

ler of New Zealand for his.

country and Australia jointly.
W. J. De Vries of South Africa,
Giusseppe Di Vittorio of Italy,
Ingvald Gangen of Norway, Ev-
zan -Erban of Czecheslovakia,
Vicente Lombardo Toledano of
Mexico for Latin America, Kazi-
mir Musinek of Poland, Walter
Schevenels of the International
Federation of Trade Unions, J.
H. Oldenbroek for international
trade secretariats and either S.
A. Dange or A. K. Mukerjji of
India, to be settled between
themselves.

With several delegations still
absent, the credentials commit-
tee report reveals that the con-
ference represents 65,845,000
workers. The final figure will be
well over 75,000,000. The report
lists the representative of the
North China trade unions, Eng
Fa, as a member of the delega-
tion of the Chinese Association
of Labor, which is paying affili-
ation fees for 800,000 members.
Wong Fa, whose representation
is the result of an agreement be-
tween CAL chairman Chu
Hsueh-fan arid Communist Gen.
Chou En,lai, is reported to have
left Calcutta enroute to Paris
by air.

Further evidence that the con-
ference will reach a compromise
on the constitution. was: given at
a press conference today by
Kuznetsov who, after saying “we
feel strongly that the WFTU
should be set up immediately,’’
added: “Secretariats should be
given time to decide whether to
join the WFTU. We feel they
should affiliate, but their decis-
ion must be voluntary.”

He also stated that if the
secretariats affiliate to the
WFTU; the Soviet trade unions
in the respective trades will
probably join the secretariats.
He said that the WFTU should
be primarily a trade union or-
ganization but “sometimes it is
difficult to draw a line between
polities and economics.” The
Soviet unions support Paris for
the headquarters of the WFTU,
Kuznetsov added, and will back
a WFTU colonial commission if
it is set up.

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