AFTER THE WAR
THIRTY-HOUR WEEK WANTED
NEW YORK, November 28. The convention of the American Federation of Labour at New Orleans passed a resolution calling on the next session of Congress to pass legislation providing for a 30-hour week after the war.
The president, Mr. William Green, reaffirmed the Federation's decision not to send delegates to the World Labour Conference in London in spite of an appeal by Mr. Arthur Homer, president of the South Wales Miners' Federation, and British fraternal delegate to the A.F. of L. convention. ;:
Without mentioning Russia, Mr. Green said: "We feel we are fighting this war to end totalitarianism and human slavery throughout the world; For _ that reason, the A.F. of L. is not willing to support a policy that would in effect continue human slavery when the war is won.
"A world conference ought to be called by a world agency, such as the International Federation of Trade Unions."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1944, Page 5
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