INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 22

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• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
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• Publication Date: June 6, 1950
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of Trade Unions concentrated on a 'eview of trade union "peace
activity" in the Western countries and on measures for strengthen-
ing and expanding such activity. .3oviet representatives emphasized
that the WFTU's principal task in chase areas is to support the
Soviet peace policy by oprosing the manufacture and shipment of arms
and by collecting signatures for tie Peace Partisans declaration
against the use of atcmic weapons. Other important WFTU tasks "in
the defense of peace" were defined as: (a) formation and strengthen-
ing of peace committees in workshops and factories; (b) promoting
labor support for the Second World Peace Congress to be held in Rome
this fall; and (c) launching a public campaign to defend the UN
Charter against "Anglo-US imperialist actions".
Especial stress was laid upon the "moral and financial support"
which the 17FTU trade union internationals (TUIs) will be expected to
supply increasingly to dockers, seamen and railway workers opposing
the US arms program. It was made Blear that, in the struggle against
the arms program, opposition to French shipments to Vietnam would be
regarded as of enual importance with the campaign against US ship-
ments to Western Europe. To strengthen "working class unity" in the
effort to defeat the arms prograrly the Soviet delegates recommended:
(a) establishment of ties with individual unions in countries where
the national labor organizations are no longer affiliated with WFTU;
(b) the admission of new unions, particularly from colonial areas
which may be consignees for the arms shipments; (c) broadened "unity
of action" with non-Communist labor; and (d) greater use of the radio,
press, and information bulletins.
The Budapest conference decisions indicate that Soviet leaders,
recognizing that overt sabotage tactics have so far failed to disrupt
arms shipments, are attempting to increase mass support for their
campaign against Western defense preparations. Future Communist
efforts in this campaign will probably stress mass "peace" demonstra-
tions in Western cities and the organization of strikes against the
production and processing of armaments for the North Atlantic Treaty
n~ t ions .
cooperation in European labor still unachieved.
Progress towards closer association between the Socialist and Christ-
ian trade unions of Western Europe has been retarded by the failure
of the Free Trade Union Confederation (ICFTU) and the Christian labor
international (CISC) to agree on terms. In place of direct affilia-
tion of the national Christian labor federations with the ICFTU, the
Christian international has offered "collaboration" between the two
internationals, leaving both intact but permitting consultation on
s of common interest. The French and Belgian Catholic labor
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federations, which originally favored direct affiliation, have recent-
ly accepted the view of the CISC majority which is not prepared to
liouidate the Christian international (with an estimated membership of
3-1/2 million workers) as the price of admission into the ICFTU. Last
week the ICFTU refused the Christian international's offer emphasizing
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orgeni itions. A major factor in the ICFTUas refusal appears to
have been its desire to encourage minority elements in the French
Catholic unions which. hope eventually to reverse the vote against
direct affiliation with NEW.
Some progress towards resolving the differences between the
two Western labor Internationale may be achieved during current
and future sessions of the ILO and the OEEC, in which both the
Catholic and Socialist trade unions participate. Although a
modus yivendl will not be easily achieved, since deep-rooted antag-
onl.sms smell divide the two groups of European unions, nevertheless
their common antipathy to Communism and interest in European re-
covery'will continue to pull them together. Moreover, it is likely
that the early inclusion in ICFTU of the new, heavily Catholic,
Italian labor confederation (CI5L) will be a potent force in pro-
moting such cooperation, since the Italians strongly support the
US concept of "non-denominational" unions still largely unfamiliar
to European workers.
Outlook or current i E In contrast to the quiet
efflcTQh errat on of some o 1ttechnical committees such as
those on transport, coal and tin ber, the ECE at Its current se sion
will as in the past serve largely as a forum for economic and
ideological polemics. The Soviet bloc will exploit familiar propa-
ganda themes such as the baleful effects of the Marshall plan,
trade discrimination against Eastern Europe, unemployment and the
plight of small western European farmers. However the western
members are in a good position to tax the USSR with the deadlock
in the trade and agricultural committees where Soviet obstructionism
and refusal to furnish economic data have brought work to a virtual
standstill. The past record and future program of the various ECE
committees will be reviewed and the commission will probably up-
hold Executive Secretary Myrdal's intention to suspend further
meetings of the trade and agricultural committees until prospects
for accomplishing something useful are improved. Myrdal's suggestion
to extend full ECE membership to non-UN members however,while sup-
ported by the US'R will be opposed by the US9 UK and probably France
and may be rejecter. East-West trade will be a major subject of
controversy and it is likely that the surprisingly quick Soviet re-
sponse to Myrdal's suggestion for a European grain agreement was
made more with an eye to propaganda than in the serious expectation
of exchanging Soviet grain for desired western manufactures.
Yugoslav Proposal for 1 to,I.cc,
shelvec?? espite considerable interest a
conaress__ Z.ikeJy to be
he UNESCO conference
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in a Yugoslav proposal for a congress on intellectual cooperation,
it is not likely that the opera: ti.ng portions of the resolution
will reach the conference floor.. Supported by the UK and France,
the US believes that the proposal should be buried in the Program
and Budget Commission which has the task of fusing all proposals
on the subject of peace into an overall resolution combining the
best features of each. Althoug initially the US delegation had
thought some political advantage might be gained from support of
such a. congress, convened expressly to "combat war psychosis" and
to counter the belief in inevitable war between nations with d.if--
ferent social systems, the State Department feels the congress
would give rise to impractical -,.)roposals and anti-western propa-
ganda, generating more heat than light and duplicating the work of
UNESCO., Ambassador Allen in Belgrade, on the other hand, while
not contending that the congress would materia'ly change the world
situation, believes US oppositio-on might be misunderstood. He
states that many "people of good will" in strategic political po-
sitions in Europe and Asia beli'!ve the capitalist system inevitably
forces the US toward imperialists exploitation and wars of expansion
and feels we must convince thes. people of our desire for peace
before they will join, with us enthusiastically in opposing agresn-
sion.. US coldness toward the YY-tgoslav proposal, he asserts, will
confirm the suspicions of many that we are afraid "peace might
break out."
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