Trade Union Aid For Recovery Flan

Northern Advocate, 10 March 1948, Page 5

Trade Union Aid For Recovery Flan

LONDON. Tue. (11.30 a.m.). —Division within the international trades union movement must not prevent those who could agree from walking together on the path to European recovery. Miss Florence Hancock. British chairman, told delegates from trade union organisations in 13 Marshall Plan countries who are meeting in London to discuss how they can help the European recovery programme.

Difficult as was the situation of Europe, there were no grounds for pessimism

Among the delegates are a representative of the Spanish General Union of Workers in exile, and a minority group from the Italian Labour Federation. The rival American trades union groups, the Congress of Industrial Organisations and American Federation of Labour, both sent delegates. Portugal, Turkey, Iceland, Greece and tiie official French and Italian national trades union organisations are not represented.

The Associated Press Rome correspondent says the Federation of Italian Labour, which refused to attend the conference, announced that Guiseppe di Vittorio, its Communist secretarygeneral. is leaving for London on Thursday for talks with the secretary of the American CIO about United States aid to Italy.