' Of fo we # Bridges says Hy Potofsky is. Murray’s choice to succeed him as CIO head PHILIP MURRAY WALTER REUTHER JACOB POTOFSKY aaa Bloc vote saves Britis _ TUC leadership from tising rank-file One of the most revealing remarks made at the British Trades Union protest BLACKPOOL, Congress Con- = ad Yention here this month came from secretary Arthur,Deakin of the Transport and Genera! i he wording of resolutions, but to “reac or ip ; dvised delegates not to study t of 3 Scaa ae ie the aes of a delegete from the Association of Engineering anc hipbuildine Draughtsmen, “Votes on major issues seem to be decided not on principle, but 8 H : : : Whether they are in line with aspect of Communist policy, Pective of their merits.” Ma- Y Of the TUC general council members Were determined at all baces to record—at least on paper > He uncritical support of the or- Banizeq British trade union move- Ment for government policies des- Pite increasing restiveness among © Workers, th, Ting to their advantage was Bones that the council had a tough the rightwing stronghold ur ‘big unions—Deakin’s Trans- tt Workers, the Municipal and ;teral Workers Union, the Na- ®nal Union of Mineworkers and b {Union Shop Assistants Distri- Mtive and Allied Workers. F wialthough the National Union of ti ‘Neworkers At its recent conven- en went on record in support of theroved Anglo-Soviet relations, Vv ° NUM delegation to the TLO Sie) against a resolution calling hie improved east-west trade and ay Power peace talks. On the hee of the TUC meeting, the th ers’ president, Sir William Law- “T, told his delegation that since at their convention they had voted aaah aan o Sirens , US. speculators Make killing: in Japanese honds T ' NEW YORK Borne Spectacular rise of Japanese Yor, 2ment bonds on the New the k market is attributed here to Loy tomise made by the Yoshida Yernment to honor these debts treaty “Onclusion of.the Japanese ege fore Pearl Harbor, the Japan- mjecvetAment floated some $68 Mann bond issues in the American tket. These were distributed by the! Street banking houses, with the Usual fat commissions. When inet Came and with it a pre- bonus fall in the prices of these S, small investors were forced Unload at a big loss. 1 the weeks preceding signing .1© Japanese treaty with heavy RLY irres Jorit: 0 by of te by speculators the prices hese bonds more than doubled. Voting bloc of 2,600,000 votes | a resolution in general terms sup- porting the government they could not support any resolution here which criticized the government. In the case of the 681,780-strong Amalgamated Engineering Union there was often very fierce debate within the delegation on how it should vote. It finally voted against a resolution calling for an end to the cold war and general disarmament, although at the last. AEU convention a resolution in favor of big power negotiations was adopted. The 381,658-strong National Un- ion of Railwaymen refused to move from its stand for peace and against German rearmament. The Electrical Trades Union, with 187,869 members, f oug ht hard throughout. the convention on foreign policy and wages against the general council’s line. The line was revealed by TUC Alfred Roberts who, in his opening speech, called for stepped up pre- parations for war with the Soviet Union and still greater sacrifices by British workers to sustain the heavy armaments | program. Al- though this viewpoint was adopted in the convention’s foreign policy resolution, within the limits of the brief debate allowed some opposi- tion points were heard on the floor. Assistant secretary Jack Grahl of the Firé Brigades Union charged that the wording of the foreign resolution “is the same as the ae has been ‘peddling for the he 30 years.” Referring to the resolu- tion’s charge that the USSR has e past 34 years, Grahl ask- Maret we forgotten about tte ler, Mussolini and fascist Japan? Grahl reminded delegates that the USSR had lost two million people in the war of et apes and seven million in the Cees world war. He celUga hi oO - suggest that they now want ie) is not only madness, but a - madness of warmongers. The TUC must bring this madness to an end.” f Unanimously adopted by AG Oy delegates was a2 resolution as a3 the British government oy draw recognition from rane become a “wellspring” of danger ie i d by the in. This was unoppose y Pae leaders who regarded it as a kind of safety valve for the widespread uneasiness over Brit- ain’s foreign policy. On the vital’ issue of wages, prices and profits only five speakers were allowed. The delegates un- animously passed a resolution ask- ing the government to reconsider its attitude toward subsidies, more effective control of prices and prof- its and removal of sales tax on household necessities: In the name of loyalty to the government, the delegates turned down a motion which charged nothing h been done to restrain profits and’ affirm- ed that wage increases at the ex- pense of profits are justified. President Harry Biid NOGALES, Ariz. ges of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union has pre- dicted that CIO president elected at the forthcoming then resign after successor. Bridges made his p fore thé 47th Philip Murray will be re- CIO convenion and will appointing Jacob Potofsky as his rediction in an address be- convention of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers held last week at Nogales, Arizona. Credentials showed 260 delegates in attendance committee reports at the convention. ‘‘Murray’s successor has already been selected— and it ain't Walter Reuther,”’ Reuther is so. mad about this up a battle that will wreck going to ‘run in November. Then he’ll Potofsky, president of: the Workers of America, as his successor.” said Bridges. ‘‘Walter that he’s going to put ‘the CIO. Murray is in the election at the CIO convention resign and appoint Jacob Amalgamated Clothing CULL et Peta nT ne Tn nT aD Can anfi-Socialisis fight for Socialism, — asks TUC delegate During debate at the Trades‘ Union Congress convention here on a proposal for increased labor representation on boards direct- ing nationalized industries, a delegate from the Scottish paint- ers union disclosed that only 44 out of 350 board members in pac age industries have any trade union ties. Analyzing, the composition of 131 recent appointées by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, che said 63 were company directors, 23 were knights, nine were lords and three held high-ranking mili-_ tary titles. “How can we serious- ly expect anti-Socialists in these positions to fight for Socialism?” he demanded. e ais TE of Famous Danish writer goes fo live in GDR : BERLIN The world-famous Danish writer, Martin Andersen Nexo, has arrived in Warnemuende, German Demo- cratic Republic, with his family, where he intends to take up resi- dence. Nexo and his family will live in Radebuel near Dresden. . Blackjack democracy ; r Shown in the act of blackjacking a2 women picket, this Amter- < The woman is a member of Mine- Mill’s local 890 at Bayard, New Mexico, whose members at New Jersey Zinc Company’s Empire Division’ have been on strike for 11 months. Another woman picket, mother of five children, was run oversby a truck crashing a picket line. ican police officer is still free. U.S. had Korea resolution to UN prepared — ~NEW YORK The U,S. State Department had a “skeleton résolution” for the UN to pass, justifying the war in Kor- ea, long ‘before thejdate of the outbreak of the Korean war. This: was revealed when recent proceed- ings of the Senate appropriations: sub-committee were ‘Made public. The proceedings dealt with the. questioning, at a closed session on June 5, of John -D.. Hickerson,. assistant | secretary. of’ state for- United Nations affairs, on the state. department’s requést for more. funds, reports the New York Daily: Worker. Explaining to Senator Homer- Ferguson (Rep., Mich.) who com- plained of the lack of preparation. by the state department for the Korean war, Hickerson in- sisted that the state department had made preparations and had actually prepared a “skelton resol- ution” long before June 25, 1950. * This “skeleton resolution”, he said, was used-as the basis for the resolution which the United States submitted to the IUN Security Council on June 25, “We knew that we were going to take it to the United Nations. “We knew in gen- eral what we were going to say - +. We had a skeleton resolution here first.” : This revelation by Hickerson is: convincing evidence that the U.S. government prepared the agegres- sion in Korea long before June 25 last year and bears out the contention that John Foster Dulles, U.S. special adviser, approved the decision to launch the war on his visit to Korea only a few days be- fore outbreak of hostilities, Brifain alarmed by German trade LONDON “The Germans are making a formidable trade drive, They are driving British goods out of the Furopean market and challenging them in the Empire market,” The London. Daily Express complains, reflecting British concern Over West German competition, The Daily Telégraph comments editorially that “the menace of German competition is no less real or widespread than that of Japan- ese.” The paper writes of the “sharp contrast between the stag- nation” of West Germany’s export trade, which is disclosed in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE — Economic Commission for Europe. SEPTEMBER 21, 1951 — PAGE 3.