SLAVE LABOUR
World-Wide Inquiry Sought
SOVIET REQUEST TO U.N. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. Feb. 28 Russia to-day asked the United Nations to appoint an international commission of trade unionists to conduct a world-wide investigation of “slave labour.” The Soviet delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Mr Semyon Tsarapkin) made the request when he was replying to charges, based on allegations by the American Federation of Labour, that slave labour was widespread in Russia. Mr Tsarapkin proposed that the commission should comprise 110 to 125 members chosen from the trade union organisations of the various countries. He suggested that it should also include representatives of the World Federation of Trade Unions, Christian trade unions, and others. Mr Tsarapkin said that the commission should be composed of representatives of trade unions and other labour organisations in the proportion of one representative for every 1,000.600 members. This would give the Soviet organisations a considerable majority. The meeting adjourned without a decision.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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