Summit County Labor News

AFL Boycott of
World Labor
Parley Hit

Regret at the absence of the AFL from the London World Trade Union Conference and approval of the world labor unity shown at the conference were expressed by three different AFL sources.

In Cleveland Editor A. J. Davey, Jr., of the Cleveland Citizen, said in his weekly radio broadcast that the AFL executive council "missed the boat" when it decided to boycott the conference.

Davey compared the council's attitude to "a man who sits far back in a comfortable seat and shouts how he would lick either of the fighters who are doing the fighting in the ring" and concluded that the council's position "just doesn't make sense."

Before the conference began the Cleveland AFL adopted a resolution asking the executive council to reverse its stand and send an observer to the London conference.

In Hartford, Conn., the Central Labor Union adopted a resolution praising the decisions of the London conference and urging the AFL executive council to reconsider the questions of affiliating with the new world labor organization to be set up.

"The vast number of the rank and file of the AFL have indorsed and supported the World Trade Union Con-

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ference, recognizing the need for an international organization in which every national organization of labor is represented," the resolution said.

In New York City President Jay Rubin of the New York Hotel Trades Council commented: "The history making decisions of the Big Three at the Crimea conference were lauded internationally in all free lands as pointing the way to victory and democracy.

In a like fashion, the results of the unprecedented World Trade Union Conference at London help pave the way for international labor unity and bring labor into closer participation in shaping the world to come.

"All individuals and all groups in the American labor movement who have the interests of labor close at heart should hail with enthusiasm the decisions of the London conference and all forward-looking elements within the AFL should strive to bring the great AFL into this international house of labor."