BILL OF RIGHTS
AMERICAN UNIONS' PROPOSAL NEW YORK, Aug. 11.
The American Federation of Labour, representing 7,000,000 trade unionists, independent of the World Federation of Trade Unions, proposed an International Bill of Rights calling for the abolition of dictatorships, the end of the one-party electoral system, and gradual and systematic disarmament by all nations. The document was submitted to Mr Byrnes, with the request that it should be included in the peace treaties, also to the United Nations, with the suggestion that it be brought before a meeting of the Economic and Social Council in September. The proposal asserts the rights of political. trade union, religious, economic and educational organisations without Government or other control. and asks that every nation guarantees the individual the right of political asylum, the right to leave a country at will, subject only to the immigration laws of the country of destination, and the right of individual freedom of opinion and expression.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26229, 13 August 1946, Page 5
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