COMMUNISTS IN I.L.O.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 7

COMMUNISTS IN I.L.O.

Role Of “Employer” Delegates (Rec. 8 p.m.) GENEVA, June 10. The International Labour Assembly today voted that employer delegates from seven Communist countries should be given seats on its committees as deputy members with voting « rights. decision— taken by 109 votes to ©8 with 21 abstentions—is pending a ruling by the Credentials Committee on Communist delegates. In a debate before the vote, Mr William McGrath, the chief United States employers’ delegate, threatened to recommend his Government never ♦ * S tf nc * another employer delegation to the International Labour Organisation unless the Communists were prevented from interfering with the pre- ' ' sent structure. Mr McGrath told the conference that was trying to re-enter the 1.L.0. to disrupt it and use it as a SpringBoard for Communist propaganda. He said there were no free employers qr workers in Russia, and the Communist delegates at the assembly represented the Government and the Communist Party. ■ Russia 13 taking part in its first 1.L.0.

conference since 1939, with Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. The chief Soviet adviser, Mr Amazasp Arutiunian, said that the principle that employers’ representation on the 1.L.0. had to be capitalist was “entirely unacceptable.”