: Labor Seeks Place On Nation’s Delegation ‘PARIS — French trade unionists demanded inclusion of a labor representative in their country’s delegation to the United Nations Organ- ization General Assembly meeting in London Jan. 10. The demand, approved at an executive bureau meeting of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), is being presented to Foreign Minister George Bidault along with a renewed request that labor attaches be appoint- ed to all important French em- bassies. Commenting on the financial situation which forced the Con- stituent Assembly this week to vote for devaluation of the frane, the CGT executive bureau insist- ed that the government check inflation by clamping down on rising prices and by placing on the market the large stocks of consumers’ goods now ‘hoarded by speculators. The CGT also de- manded tighter control over for- eign trade and currency exchange as ‘well as requisitioning of all pri- vate French assets abroad. The latter measure was approved by the Constituent Assembly by an overwhelming majority of 506 against 44, ; Flat rejection was voted by the CGT leaders on a, proposal to allot six seats to the Corifedera- tion of Christian Workers and 10 to the CGT as labor represen- tatives on the board of directors of the four big investment banks which were recently nationalized. This was denounced as a man- euver by Finance Minister Rene Pleven to boost the Catholic unions against the CGT. The allotment of seats, which is out of proportion to the vast differ- enee in membership of the two organizations, would curtail ef- fective labor control of the new banking management because the Catholie unions are influenced, by the companies, it was charged. A reactionary endeavor to break labor unity through the Catholic unions was sharply em- HAst. 0340 766 E. Hastings Hastings Steam Baths Vaneouver, B.C. 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A CGT delegation just back from a tour of investigation in Germany will also attend. | UE Strike embodying Truman’s plan pro- vide for an examination of com- pany books, but industry has spo- ken out strongly against inclu- sion of this provision in the leg- islation. The ‘fact-finding commission stepped back into the UAW-GM dispute after failure of a re- newed attempt at negotiaions by the company and union. At the same time, the U.E. announced failure in its wage negotiations with the General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric “Co. and General Motors electrical divi- sion. Strike action, involving 100,000 workers at GE, 75,000 at Westinghouse and 25,000 at GM, is expected after a meeting of the U.E. general executive board January 5. There is. no indica- Consolidate MOSCOW—While in the course of the war Soviet trade unions concentrated on aid to the Red Army, they must now consolidate the victory and improve living standards, Viasili Kuznetsov, chairman of the All-Union Cen- tral Council of Trade Unions de- clares in the first issue of Trade Unions, new AUCCTU monthly| organ. In an article entitled! “Further upsurge in the world of the trade unions,’ Kuznetsov sums up the tasks of Soviet trade unions as follows: Active assistance in the de- velopment of national economy, with a view to surpassing the pre-war level in a few years and improving living standards con- Siderably; greater attentjon to material and cultural needs ot factory and office workers; active participation in the election cam- paign to the Supreme Soviet; and Kutznetsov Urges Unions Victory consolidation of international la- bor unity. “Efforts to satisfy the material and cultural needs of the working people must be the basis of all trade union work in the present conditions,’ Kuznet- sov declares. “Attention of every trade union organization must be concentrated on the daily needs of factory and office workers.” The new Soviet trade union or- gan deals with concrete ways otf caring for the needs of the So- viet worker and with the work ot the trade unions generally. 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