ity of the workers to itlerism! As the war = its decisive phase, Sgunity which will help H; and increase labor's speace. eof movements are de- jaitaneusly. These in- ntension of the Anglo- fde Union Committee slabor organizations of m States, Canada, Latin pnd other United Na- Stablishment of con- / world scale between | the same industry, ‘€ proposal made by er of the Amalgam- Beering Union of Bri- sanvening of a world Rugh which labor can mfor war and post-war srception of the Amer- son of Labor, all im- s centers in the Amer- Eidy on record for af h the Anglo-Soviet ss Committee. mat session in Havana, jation of Latin Amer- = Executive approved ® the proposal placed a number of national ) apply for affiliation @2l0-Soviet Committee. »-ades and Labor Con- §ida and the Canadian Labor, at their recent evoted in favor of af : U.S... the CIO and axe Railroad Brother- \ ready on record for jabstacle is the Exec- = of the AFL, where © Hutcheson - Dubinsky gate. Isadore Nagler, adelegate to the Brit- tion Congress, aroused etish as well as Amer- f his slanderous attack piet trade unions. #- Citrine, outgoing Gtary of the TUC, es- ther obstacle to the 3 the Ansgio-Soviet jien he insisted upon je AFL Executive | € voice of American 435 to recognize the =the CIO for affilia- ‘strong sentiment in nm the AFL, as shown for world unity of a ‘aportant state feder- ores of union locals. ‘on came to a head jort Congress, where ‘d to permit the fra- wade union delegates gler’s slander, and by Sax averted the fight As Allied Labor Unity fer a firm second front resolution. However, a_ significant Swing away from the conservative lead- ership of the general craft unions afid towards the more progressive industrial unions, such as the miners, engineers and railroadmen, took place at the convention. This shift is expected to sveaken the influences of those forces like Citrine who have contrived to block world unity. The proposal to establish di- rect contact between unions in the same field, first made by Tanner with respect to steel and metal unions, has also been made for other fields, such as marine and mining. The first important response to this proposal has come from the convention of the United Flectri- cal, Radio and Machine Workers. Tt voted to exchange accredited delegates with the Amalgamated Engineering Union of Britain and with the Metal Workers Union of the Soviet Union, and to urge the other metal working unions in the CIO to join with them in this move. The Trade Union Congress voted for the TUC Executive proposal for convening of a world labor conference to achieve unity of aim and action among the labor move- ments of the various nations. The Confederation of Matin American Workers. with some 4,000,000 members, is already on record for a world conference. At its Hayana executive meeting, the CTAL formally proposed to its brother labor centers in North America, Britain and the Soviet Union that such a conference be sealled. The recent Australian Trade Union Congress, besides voting at its last session for direct af- filiation to the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee, also went on record for a world con- ference, With the Soviet, British, Latin American, Canadian and Austra- lian labor movements already on record in favor of organized world labor unity, and with the CIO and Railroad Brotherhoods supporting this position, the AFI. Executive Council remains the main obstacle. But it can no longer serve as a successful obstacle, in view of the increasing power of the movement for unity. The Woll-Hutcheson combination, which is anti-United Nations and anti-Soviet, and which does not represent the real posi- tion of the overwhelming majority of the American workers, will be circumvented. That American labor is begin- ning to move much more rapidly in the direction of world unity is further evidenced by recent speeches of Philip Murray and Sid- ney Hillman, CIO leaders, who Stressed the imperative necessity for world labor unity te speed up victory and assure greater partici- pation of labor in the peace. Britain , president of the ag Amalgamated En- len, this week hailed of the United Elec- and Machine Work- its recent convention to seek ties with the | Soviet Metal Work- iction is in line with of our recent AEU » establish contacts miet and American Tanner said in an t Allied Labor News. time the AEU presi- ilso president of the i of the International rs) Federation, ex- Satisfaction that the ready received ac- m the Marine and Workers (CIO) and Equipment Workers invitation to send Hails UERMWA Action delegates {to Britain to “get to know the British war effort at first hand and exchange yiews for the future. Under the signature of its sec- retary, Lincoln Evans, the British section of the IMWF sent invita- tions to the following U.S. unions besides the TUMSW and UFEW: International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers; International Broth- erhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship- builders and Helpers; Pattern Makers League; International Molders and Foundry Workers: and Sheet Metal Workers Inter- national Association—all AFL: to the United Automobile Workers, United Electrical, Radio and Ma- chine Workers; and United Steel Workers—all ClO—and the Inter- national Association of Machinists independent. The British section of the IMWE includes 24 unions with a member- ship of 1,0765,500. Sustice Marchins With Red Army By llya Ehrenburg - THESE solemn moments one feels the urge for concentr looking back. September 1941 _ . (Kiev’s main street). Every day accompaniment of drum-beating, hundreds of commentators. Russian women with set faces and feverish dry ing Red Army men. Women with Trains with Ukrainian wheat are bound for Germany. Hitler is shouting: “The Red Army no longer exists.” Hitler together with Musso- lini being photographed amid the ruins of Smolensk. The autumn wind swinging the bodies of hanged miners. Ber- lin chuckling busily: “We are short of commandants and police.” They thought the game was won. And even the New York Times wrote: With the loss of the Donabas organized resistance on the part of the Russians becomes almost in- conceivable. Ce) HAT is taking place to- t day is not merely one of the battles; it is truly the expulsion of the enemy. For the first time we feel the be- ginning of the end. For two years the Germans discussed the importance of the Don- bas. Military observers, con- descendingly speaking of the “incomprehensible subborn- ness of the Russians,” went out to prove that having lost the Donbas the Soviet Union could not resist for long. “A Country Without Coal” was the heading over a National- zeitung editorial in Decem- ber 1942: We were well aware of what the loss of the Donbas meant to us. We did not close our eyes to our wounds. We withstood what seemed im- possible to endure. We lost the coal of the Donbas ore, the grain of the Ukraine, the Kuban and the Don, the | plants and factories of Dnie- propetrovsk, Kharkov, Vor- onezh and Stalingrad, the oil of Maikop. We lost very much indeed. a eee Red Army has now regained the ~ Donbas. This is not merely a regian, not really a matter of somany square kilometers; it is the solar plexus of the Soviet Union; it is the love of the youthful, proud, new Rus- sia. We have the right to cele- brate the liberation of the Donbas, but even the Don- bas is now merely a chapter. Something more significant is now taking place—the ex- pulsion of the enemy. For three days the “Konotop di- rection” has been figuring in the communiques, and Kono- top is already in the rear. We know what Baghmach means - . . Kiev is waiting. In the night Kiev already hears the distant rumbling—freedom is coming. We know that the enemy is not yet finished. The Fritz, ousted from the Donbas, will fight at Zaporozhye; the Fritz that survived Konotop will bare his teeth at Bakhmach. We do not underestimate the enemy's strength. He has not yet lost his powerful equip- ment. He may still throw his reserves into the battle. The irreparable has hap- pened —the enemy has lost not only territory, he has lost faith in victory. i ie IS not easy for the Red Army to forge ahead. In these days of victory I would like to remind once more that there is something in this war which distinguishes. it from other wars. This war is being waged not only by a people’s reason, not only by their strong attachment for their native land, but by their outraged conscience as well. Justice and Russia are march- ing hand in hand, inspired by one thing. The advancing Red Army again beholds the black deeds of the invaders—the charred ruins of cities, the deserted bodies of tortured people. The Germans will answér for everything—with this feeling the army of justice is march- ing west. There was one Red Army battalion formed mainly of natives of the Kursk region. The commanders and men were eagerly waiting for news from their kith and kin. And the terrible news came. Nineteen relatives of the men were shot by the Germans. Many of them had their fam- ilies deported to Germany; 32 of them had their homes burned. And this is just one battalion. What can hold ation of his thoughts and for - German columns are marching over Kresschatilk the Berlin radio announces the capture of cities to the blowing of trumpets, Hitler’s barking, the howling of eyes, are looking on at the retreat- infants are straggling eastward, a German “victory”! back such a battalion in its advance west? ND there is the great sense of conscience among the people. Seeing such grief and such crimes, the men of Siberia, the Urals, and the Caucasus are march- ing forward as heralds of jus- tice. Germany is a-quiver; the sword of justice is being flashed before her eyes. The Fritzes are dismayed. A German officer, Siegfried Mantzke, taken prisoner, de- clares: “There is no more sense in continuing the war.” Yes, there was sense in the war for them when they were out to plunder. Now the war has lost sense for them. But it is full of meaning for us— it will teach them never to fight again. We will knock out of them the desire to go after other people’s wealth every quarter of a century. They will learn the price of a-pound of lard and a ton of oil. i TWO months the Red Army offensive has changed the world climate. Hitler’s henchmen have lost heart. Rome has fallen. The Magyars, who only recently ran amuk amid the ruins of Voronezh now dream of de- claring Budapest an “open city.” A purifying storm is raging over tortured Europe. Our victory has filled the hearts of the enslaved peoples with fresh streneth. Unruly France has raised her head. In twe months our soldiers have accomplished a great deal — they have struck a crushing blow at- Germany. All the peoples of the world will join us in saying: “It is time to put an end to the war! Let us save Europe while its slaves are able to stand on their feet, while they are still alive.” And the Red Army, proud of marching in the vanguard of mankind, continues its ad- vanee. Ahead is the Dnieper; ahead is life.