August 14, 1945
THE FISHERMAN
Page Seven
Meet USSR Labor Leaders
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CURLED, nose on paws, the black dog at the Washington army airport did not even stir in his sleep.
Arriving and departing planes were routine for him. So too were welcomes and farewell for great and small.
Whirling propellers and hurrying legs just helped to circulate the stagnant air and keep the flies away, so he could sleep without  a muscle-twitch.
For the airport staff too, another arrival  was  mere routine, as the officer told them to get ready   for   'the  olive drab job." It landed smoothly and eas ily like all the rest—the olive-drab  job  with  a red star on it.     The   passengers stepped out, were greeted and absorbed in waiting cars.   The staff got busy on the next arrival. And the black dog did not even stir in his sleep.
It was all as simple and informal as when Stanley met up with the lost explorer in the African jungle and said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"—or when American GI's and Red Army men first met and embraced in the center of Germany.
This was a first meeting too. Nothing so much in itself maybe, for folks are always coming and   going   and    meeting and greeting. But something to get excited about, if you can look further into the past and the future than can a sleeping dog. "The   "olive drab   jjob" was a Soviet plane. It had flown half way around the world to bring, as invited guests of the CIO, the first fraternal    delegation   of Soviet trade unionists ever to visit America.
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I FIRST to step off the plane was a * Russian Bill Smith. The Russian word for a smith is kuznets, and William is Vassili.
Vassili Kuznetsov is head of the Russian trade union movement there and, like Phil Murray, is from the steelworkers' union. He has something too of Murray's democratic simplicity and dignity. Another pasenger was the Johnny Green of the USSR, head
of the shipbuilders' union, Nick Gaissenok by name, lively ana friendly as Johnny himself.
Then there was the Soviet auto workers' counterpart of R. J. Thomas, tall, serious Boris Gos-tov, with deep-set eyes.
Another   was   a   sailor, Mike
Zhdanov, the Joe Curran of the Soviet maritime union, salty and blunt like most men of the sea.
Completing the delegation were quiet Ivan Chevtaev of the Wood workers' union; ruddy-faced Alex Stepanov,  ace   wage negotiator; Mike Falin, assistant to Kuznet-
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These aims and objects can only I be fu!ly attained by the establishment of a World Order in which all the resources of the world will be utilized for the benefit of all its peoples, the vast majority of whom are workers by hand and brain whose protection and whose progress depends upon the union of all their organized forces nationally and internationally. Th? WFTU therefore proclaims its prime purposes to be:
(a) To organize and unite with in its ranks the trade unions of the whole world,   irrespective of considerations   of  race, nationality, religion or political opinion.
(b) To assist, whsrever necessary, the workers in countries socially or industrially less developed, in setting up their trade unions;
(c) To carry on the struggle for the decisive defeat of the fascist powers and for the extermination of all fascist forms of government and every manifestation of fascism, under whatever form it op erates and by whatever name it may be known;
(d) To combat war and the causes of war and work for a stable and enduring peace; By giv ing full support to the establishment of a powerful and effective international organization armed with all necesary power to prevent aggression and maintain the p^ace; By supporting the widest possible international cooperation in the social and economic spheres and measures for the industrial development and full utilization of the resources of the undeveloped countries; By carrying on a struggle against reaction and for the ful! exercise of the democratic, rights and liberties of all peoples;
(e) To represent the interests of world labor in all international agencies whose responsibility will be to so'.ve the problems of world organization, resting upon agree ments or conventions concluded oe tween the United Nations, and in such other international bodies as may be decided upon by the WFTU:
n February, 1945.
(f) To organize the common struggle of trade unions of all countries:
Against all encroachments on the economic and social rights of the workers and on democratic liberties; for the satisfaction of the ne:d of the workers for security of employment; for the progressive improvement of wages, hours and working and living conditions of the workers; for full and adequate social security to protect workers and their families against the hazards of unemployment, sickness, accident and old age; for the adoption of all other measures furthering the social and economic well being of the workers.
(g) To plan and organize the education of trade union members on the question of international labor unity and to awaken them to a consciousness of their individual responsibility for the realization of trade union purposes and aims.
In order to achieve these ends, the WFTU bases its work on the following principles: (1) Full democracy within the trade unions of all countries and close collab oration among them; (2) Permanent contact with affiliated Trade Union Organizations, fraternal support and assistance to them in their work; (3) Systematic exchange of information and experience in trade union work with , the object of strengthening the solidarity of the international la bor movement.
(4) Coordination of action by the workers' organizations for the realization of their international aims and decisions- (5) Protection of the interests of the workers in emigration and immigration; (6) Using every means of making kn*wn and explaining the pur poses for which the WFTU is organized, the objectives which it seeks, its program for the achievement of these objectives and its decisions on specific issues.
sov; blonde Claudia Orlova of the Clothing Workers; brown-eyed tr-aida Shostak of the Teachers' union, and dainty Liubov Samo-shina, the interpreter.
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WHEN these visitors got together over some beers with their American hosts, it was like any chin-fest between delegates at a union convention—plenty in common to discuss,   job experiences, organising   problems—and notes to compare on differing conditions. The   Soviet   unionists asked endless   questions   about their respective    industries    in the United   States,   about wages, working  and  living conditions, how American unions function. They were soon swapping comparisons about grievance committee procedures, wage negotiations, union elections, etc.
The only wonder was that this sort of thing should never have happened before—that it took a world war to break down the barrier of lies that kept American and Soviet labor apart.
Looking back over the murky, blood-streaked water that has flowed under the bridge, we may well mourn the tragedy of past labor division.
Who knows but what fascism might have been nipped in the bud without a world-wide war, if labor had long ago achieved the international unity and understanding now in the making.
But, looking ahead, there is still work aplenty for world labor unity to wipe out all vestiges of fascism and to preserve our future peace.
In our own country there are many — some even claiming to speak for labor—who are trying to re-erect the old barrier of lies and hatred between the peoples of the US and the USSR, and to defeat the purposes of the World Federation of Trade Unions and the United Nations Charter.
The present friendly, Uomely, almost casual visiting between American and Soviet trade unionists may seem a small thing in itself. But, like the first meeting between Soviet and American GI's in Germany, it is a token full of promise.
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