ustice, Not Revenge Is Policy

The Trades Union Con

wards Germany in a resolution,
“An era of brutal ageressi
rights of citizenship and every

'} ing to an end, and the dawn of a

; pnew day of freedom and oppor-
itunity is breaking.

| HOMAGE

men and women in all the oc-
7 cupied countries who were stead-
@fast and wunconquerable

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“This Congress pledges the
millions of organized workers
it represents to strive to make
the coming years of recon-

struction and resettlement
worthy of the effort and sacri-
fice by which this liberty has
been achieved

“Congress pays homage to the

in the
day of defeat, and in whom the

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ress at Blackpool this year expressed its postwar policy to-
carried by an overwhelming majority, which stated:
On and cruel violence, in which the common elementary

canon of human conduct were violated and denied, is com-

spirit of resistance burned ever |
more fiercely as their deliverance |
grew nearer.
“The Trade Union and Labor
Moyement will hold in lasting
honor those who suffered agonies
of mind and body in enemy pris-
ens and concentration camps,

|those who maintained in exile,

? their faith in ultimate victory,

and those who gave their lives

7,2 unceasing guerrilla warfare,
| that their nation should have a
* rebirth of freedom.

LOYALTY TO IDEALS
“The debt, which. the free peo-

‘ple-owe to them can be repaid

_only by loyalty and constant

Service to the ideals to which
they gave their full measure of
devotion.

“This Congress affirms its
view that the German people
cannot be absolved of all respon-
sibility for the crimes committed
during this war. For Germany,
and not less Japan, military de-

feat and surrender must mean

retribution and atonement.
RETRIBUTION

“War criminals of every
Tank and status must bear the
full penality of their crimes.
Restitution must be made to.
the peoples upon whom Ger-
many, without rule or restraint,
has waged war with calculated
and pitiless determination.
Stolen property of every de-
seription, including trade union
funds and buildings which
were confiscated by the Nazi
dictatorship, will haye to be
restored.

“Countries which have been
plundered and exploited: to serve
Germany’s aim of conquest and
domination have just claim to re-
paration which must be paid to
the full and cannot be paid im
money alone. :

“Nor can the German people

be allowed to believe that they.

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can escape all the burden of re-

pairing and reviving the life of

the countries which have been

ravaged and despoiled, or that
the cost of re-establishing our
own trade and industry, and re-
building our cities and villages
destroyed by German air attacks
or long-range bombardment, will
fall heavily upon them. These
obligations will inyolye claims
upon the German economy which
must be met.

JUSTICE MUST BE NONE

“This Congress does not adyvo-
eate a punitive peace nor any
kind of settlement which will
perpetuate the hatred and an-
tagonism which haye torn the
world asunder.

“But justice must be done, in
no spirit of revenge, but with a
firm resolve to lay down such
political and economic conditions
and terms of settlement as will
provide a strong foundation for
the future peace of the nations,
and afford the fullest possible
guarantees that order and law
will be maintained throughout
the world by the complete dis-
armament of Germany, by the
control of German industries that
can be converted to war purposes,
and the creation by the Allied
Powers of an organization of
peace-loving nations, armed with
power to enforce peace.

SOLEMN PLEDGE

“To the attainment of these
aims this Congress, and the

unions in affiliation with it, sol-
emnly pledge themselves,

with

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8: To explore in the forth-
coming World Trade Union Con-
ference the political, economic,
and social espects of postwar

|problems whieh are of common

concern;

4. To work out the principles
of a just treatment of the Ger-
man people.

5. To apply these principlés in
the settlement of Germany’s fu-
ture, under conditions which will
help to bring into being a gen-
linely democratic Trade Union

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policy of national and interna-
tional application.

“To this end the- International

Labor Organization must~be de-

veloped to assist the working
people to secure their appro-

priate share of economic pro-
gress and technological develop-

ment. No vested interests or
privileged groups must be. al-
lowed to override the common in-
terests or to frustrate the com-
mon wall.’

PROGRAM
“This Congress therefore em-

powers its General Council:

1. To develop a policy and
program that will enable the
British Trade Union Movement
to play its full part in the re-
establishment of the internation-

al working-class movement;

2. To promote the creatjon of
a trade union international, em-
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6. To formulate for incorpora-
tion in the peace settlement a
Social Charter setting forth the
social ideals and objectives to
which the International Labor
Conference at Philadelphia in
April-May, 1944, gave expression
and to which the governments
there represented gave their ad-
herence.

SHARE IN PEACE

On the completion of this pre-
paratory work by the forthcom-
ing World Trade Union Gon-
ference, this conference re-
quests its General Council to con-
vene at the appropriate time a
further conference of the execu-
tives of the affiliated organiza-
tions.

At this conference the claim
of the Trade Union Movement to
a responsible share in the formu-
lation of the terms and conditions
of peace, and in the execution of
the program of postwar recon-
struction, to which the govern-
ments must set their hands,
should be presented in a con-
erete and specific form, so that
the energies of our organized
movement can be effectively con-
centrated.”

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Plant’—_a report to end all
reports that war workers are
making huge wages and living
off the fat of the land.

“Millions of war-worker fam-
ilies aren’t shooting their wad
on expensive parties and night
club carryings-on,” Sgt. Al Hine,
Yank staff writer wrote in the
official army magazine’s Nov. 24 -
issue. “They can’t afford to .. ,
The cost of living has risen as
fast as Incomes, maybe faster.”

“Working in war industries,
they know there is a war going
on. Bomber noses instead of elc-
tric irons go down the assembly
lines. Frank Hanley doesn’t buy
bonds simply because they are
good investments,” Yank says.

| “He doesn’t give blood to the

Red Cross because he likes its
color. He has two older brothers
who saw active sea duty with
the navy before they were dis-
charged because of age. He has
another, a younger brother, who
is Sweating out the war as a GI
in New Guinea.” And the Yank
report concludes:

“Most families in the U.S. are
like that because most families
are soldiers’ families.”

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