union, demanding: ‘mediate release of all pol- ers in India. smation of a national goy- elected by the free vote se peoples of India. wanting of full dominion 2 the proposed new goy- EP TGWU resolution states: self-government, which it recog- nizes are vitally bound up with the defeat of the Nazi-fascist powers. To accomplish this, India’s fullest cooperation is essential. The Gon- ress therefore urges the British government to remove all possible barriers now impeding a full and frank discussion that will lead to the resumtion of friendiv discus- sions with representatives of the Indian people, with a view to reaching rapid and satisfactory settlement of all outstanding ques- tions.” India RE population is being de- ‘lized and people are dy- starvation,” said a cable Mayor of Calcutta’s, In- feest city, to President € and Prime Minister 1 at Quebec last week. fa’S mayor, Syed Badrud- dressed his appeal to the jers in Quebec at the cli- a steadily-deteriorating tiation in India. ppeal to you in the name ; fine humanity to arrange Mjiediate shipment of food eesins from America, Austra- # other countries” read the vation Grips Caleutta Calcutta appeal, as reported by the Associated Press from New Delhi. Thousands of people, said the dis- patch, have been flocking to the In- dian cities from the countryside, hoping that food supplies would be better organized in the cities. But recent reports have indicated that the governmental authorities are placing great obstacles in the way of food distribution. Speculation is rife, and the Peo- ple’s Food Committees. which the Indian Communist pariy and the trade unions have been organizing, are not getting enough help from the British administration. Latin America }N AMERICA wants a sec- ‘Pad front on the European et immediately not because * demands it, but because out war means starvation peoples.” Vicente Lom- Woledano, president of the fration of Latin American = , last week told d AFL delegates to the ion for Solidarity with the Republican Refugees, in Mexico City. 9 prolong the war, Tole- mtiinued: “Some want to USSR bleed to death in ‘dictate a minority peace. world’s future cannot be a the hands of this min- His War is a war of peo- ' for the interests of one § cial group.” sizing the danger of the ie dictatorship, Tcledano i that Ramirez might soon dations with the Axis, but that such action would be TAN labor this week wel- ied the 242 cents per pound 2 increase granted by the als Reserve Corporation as (the most important events 2 inauguration of the good Bi policy.” The increase has emerked by MRC for im- mit of the working and liy- tdifions of MSBolivia’s tin nlatement issued here, the Station of Bolivian Work- fTB) expressed its “thanks Klin D_ Roosevelt, to the ) Reserve Corporation, to AFL, CTAL and all other SfEanizations which inter- 1 the price negotiations.” “ment further urged the £ €evernment and CSTB tatives to work out plans distribution of funds de- »2m the increase.” ‘© of government restric- © €STB pointed out, the sans of Taising wages is to # the tin price and set aside id amount for the workers. ‘gmider Commission, which ag of “the reactionary at- \dano Urges Second Front merely “a maneuver to save its own fascism which, in reality, is an extension of the Franco dic- tatorship to the Americas.” Tole- dano urged the US delegates to spread the facts about the Argen- tine dictatorship, and called on the American governments “not to make Chamberlain’s mistake.” Fidel Velazques, president of the Confederation of Mexican Workers {CTM), joined with Toledano in Stressing the need for continental labor unity. Both received assur- ances that US labor was eager to cooperate. “Tell US labor that Latin Amer- ican workers want unity to build a better democracy, and favor in- creasing production to speed the victory of the United WNations,” Velazquez said. US delegates included Philip Connelly, president of the Cali- fornia CIO, Helen Wheeler of the AFL Hotel Workers and repre- sentatives of the National Maritime union and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. i Neighbor’ Policy Weleomed came to Bolivia to investigate working and living conditions, confirmed the terrible state of our workers,” the statement con- tinued. “The commission played a most important part in obtaining the increase.” ast month the CSTB warned that because of un- bearable living conditions “the Bolivian miner cannot continue working without imperiling his very existence.” Liberal circles here view the new agreement as an effective antidote to Axis propaganda against the United States. If it becomes a precedent to be followed in other Latin American countries, they Say, it will be the most effective Single measure to create a real rapprochement between the peo- ples, and not merely the govern- ments, of North and South Am- erica. Efforts of the Patino tin interests to prevent the granting of the increase were reported by Allied Labor News in July. Sim- ilar actions have been followed by the Hochschild and Aramayo in- terests. In all cases they argued against the increase on the grounds that it would jeopardize the inde- pendence of Bolivia. However, they are willing to accept an in- crease for themselves, British Trades Union Con gress Meets Allied Labor Unity Urged By Garry Allighan LONDON. Sa disagreement between the British and Soviet delegates to the third meeting of the Anglo-Soviet trade union committee, held in Moscow last July, arose over the issue of “an immediate second front on the European continent” and over the Soviet dele- gation’s proposal “that the committee should be extended to embrace the trade unions of North and South America,” the general council of the British Trades Union Congress reveals in its report to the annual TUC convention, scheduled to open in Southport this coming week. Criticism of the TUC general council for its stand on international labor unity will be forthcoming at the convention from a number of Britain’s most powerful unions. The following resolution, proposed by Bryn Roberts, secretary of the National Union of Pub- lic Employees—who visited the U.S. last year as fraternal delegate to the AFL conven- tion—has the support of the miners, engineers and railwaymen. “The TUC believes that the continued absence of effective collaboration between the Allied trade union movements will have tragic consequences for the workers and is of the opinion that despite old prejudices and past failures, new and energetic efforts should be made to institute such collaboration. The Congress accordingly requests the general council again to take the initiative by inviting representatives of the Soviet trade unions, AFL, CIO, Railroad Brotherhoods, CTAL, Dominions’ labor movements, trade union groups of the occupied countries and from any other bonafide trade union movement to attend an international conference for the Purpose of creating the necessary machinery to enable effective collaboration: 1. To further the war effort. 2. To determine the attitude of international labor in the anticipated peace settlement. 3. To decide labor’s international policy respecting postwar social and economic issues.” e eSNG the course of recent international labor unity negotiations, the TUC general council’s report states: ‘Early this year a meeting was held in the U.S. with a view to ‘setting up an Anglo- American trade union committee representative of American labor as a whole. Despite all efforts we were unable to obtain any measure of agreement on this question of repre- sentation among the American trade union organizations themselves, and we accordingly formed a joint TUC-AFL committee. The TUC general council did not believe, when accepting the original proposal of the AFL for formation of an Anglo-American trade union committee (in July 1942) that our request for inclusion of the CIO and Railroad Brotherhoods would be refused. The request was made repeatedly by letter and cable and it came as a shock to the TUC to learn that the AFL had decided not invite other labor bodies. “The AFL reply stated that it was ready to discuss peace with the CIO but that only recently, after pressure had been brought to bear on the CIO, had it been possible to secure agreement for opening unity negotiations. The exact membership of the CIO is unknown, and the AFL estimated the CIO membership to be no more than two and a quarter million. The CIO was described as a ‘breakaway organization, and it was stated that if the CIO had been told by the TUC that it was its duty to get back into the AFL, this would have helped the AFL to bring about resumption of peace negotiations. The AFL said that it had never expeeted to be asked to include representatives of the CIO in the joint committee with the TUC. Regarding the Railroad Brotherhoods, the AFL as- serted that their combined membersihp is no more than 340,000 — compared with the membership of 1,100,000 in AFL railroad unions. “To sum up, it is the opinion of the general council that the only practical course open to the TUC is to continue its collaboration with the AFL, through the joint committee, pending establishment of a better relationship between American organizations which, it is hoped, will ultimately permit the collaboration we originally set out to achieve.’ Turning to the July meeting of the Anglo-Soviet trade union committee, the report States: “At the first session Sir Walter Citrine gave a detailed description of the attempts to induce the AFL to participate in an Anglo-Soviet-American trade union committee. The reasons underlying the decision of the TUC general council to accept the AFL’s proposal for the formation of an Anglo-American trade union committee, and subsequent efforts to widen the body to include the CIO and Brotherhoods, were fully explained. At the June 29 session a draft resolution was agreed upon, expressing regret at the failure of the AFL to support the proposals and recording the committee’s determination to pursue ~ its efforts to secure collaboration with American trade unions. 6 HIS BES questions of the Soviet delegates gave evidence, first, of their perplexity that strikes could still occur and, second, their anxiety that a second front should be established in Europe. Replying to the first point, the British delegation stressed that working time lost was less than one hour per worker per year, and that all stoppages were discountenanced by the trade unions which were making every effort to settle dis- putes expeditiously. Regarding the second front, the delegation felt that it ought not to become involved in an issue essentially one for the decision of the highest military authorities of the United Nations.” Referring to the “draft declaration presented by the Soviet delegation for publication,” the TUC report says: “Apart from minor amendments, the two principal matters which the British delegation felt unable to accept were: “A declaration that the creation of a second front on the European continent was im- perative this year, and the Soviet proposal to extend the committee to embrace the trade unions of North and South America and the occupied countries. “At meetings on July 21 and 22, discussions were resumed on the second front. The Soviet delegation pressed very hard for inclusion of a statement to thte effect that a second front must be organized on the European continent this year. The British dele- gation made certain amendments which, while expressing the desire for a second front, did not go beyond expressing the hope that this would take place during the present year. As agreement was not reached on the two major points—the second front and ex-. tension of the committee—it was decided that the proposed declaration should not. be published until the matter had been considered by the TUC general council.”