RUSSIA THE WORST
EMPLOYMENT QF SLAVE LABOUR
A POST-WAR INSTITUTION IN MANY LANDS
(Rec. 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 3,
“ Forced labour has now become a post-war institution in many lands,” says a statement issued by the American Federation of Labour’s International Labour Relations Department. The statement, after referring to the large numbers of war prisoners still held in Britain, Poland, Yugoslavia, and O.eeho-Slovakia, and describing Russia as the worst and the biggest slave centre on earth to-day, adds: “ Barrack economy everywhere is a menace to free labour everywhere. When Japanese soldiers are turned into slave toilers on the Volga-Lake Baikal railway the benefit of Russian bureaucracy, or when Papuans and New Guineans are kept in slavery for wealthy Australian plantation owners, the freedom and welfare of the workers in London, New York, Paris, Brussels, Sydney,, and Prague are in mortal danger.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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142RUSSIA THE WORST Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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