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International Labor Organization
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eight Iron Curtain countries that have
a total of 32 votes in the ILO, as compared to 4 votes from the United
States, Meanwhile we pay 25 per cent
°f the cost, while the eight Communist
countries pay a total of 14K per cent.
ItO PROVING GROUND
F°R COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM
. The Communists have got their foot
"i the door in the ILO, and they are
Preparing to take it over. Their inter-
""".ilile tirades of oratory at tlie 1955
session were incredible.
Many nations of the rest of the
"Orld are much impressed, and are
afraid of the Russians. It seems to me
ery probable, therefore, that from
n°vv (m ilo proposals and findings
Ui"- without Question, go more deli-
j"t(,|y to the left. The ILO is going to
16 swamped by Red propaganda.
\\ e were told by a member of the
Uiho,- Department, in the last days of
tlie —
I in,nan regime, that it was important that the United States pretend,
"the ILO to go along with Socialist
P'a'osophy, because the Socialists
,\""M help us contain the Communis. '
Uid thev? The answer is, they did
'"'• The Communists now have a
fr°d chance of taking over not onlv
?* Propaganda aspect of the ILO, but
" 8°od share of its over-all operation.
. And when you get right down to
r.~vvhat ,s the difference between a
'""'iiunist and a Socialist?
: "s'ialism and communism are rival
■ "ctivist systems, competing for fol-
lln S '""' political power. In the
0 J each strives for influence, as
,PPosed to the other; but when it
'in'/'/"S to "latters of basic principle,
k ' of them go right down the same
^ '"ink the distinction between com-
| "lsm aild socialism has been cxcel-
p"% stated by Earl Bunting, former
"I
!*e d
Association
r^jfent of the Nationa
'aiiutacturers. who said to me,
"Communism is the cruel
°tCe
(.||( required to put socialism into
|1{,h" "■<■ have, in the ILO, a struggle
•Hid '■'"'". communism and socialism
Me
111 between the two,
hole
d| ('" o( freedom, our whole system
'"^petitive enterprise, is dropped
^ middle, neglected and scorned
;i,l(|"""'fhuig old-fashioned, outmoded.
'.,tj,"" longer suited to modern eivili-
'"1(1 i- ^nr one> am getting pretty sick
'"Hi' ""' or a situation which is be-
"" progressively impossible.
b
rs Forum News, March, 1956
Up until the time the Russians came
back into the ILO, I felt that the
United States employers were accomplishing something. We had definitely
succeeded in having some of the most
objectionable provisions of proposed
ILO conventions thrown out. We had
done far more than that. We had
raised such a row against the very
principle of conventions enacted as
international laws that the ILO has
passed only one convention in the
last three years.
But when the Communists came
back in, and were accepted, and we
had Communist agents put on employers committees — well, that to me
well-nigh spelled the end of the road.
There is one last stand still to be
taken. The ILO has appointed a committee to determine whether employer
and worker delegates from various
countries represent associations of free
employers and free workers, or
whether they don't. The idea is that
the report of this committee might be
the basis for formulating a constitutional amendment under which so-
called Communist employer and
worker delegates could be thrown
out. . . .
COMMITTEE GOVERNS FATE
If this committee makes its report in
all sincerity on the basis of actual
facts, if the ILO Governing Body takes
this proposal seriously and puts the
matter on the agenda of the ILO
Conference, I think that we in the
United States should stick tight and
use our utmost influence to further this
objective.
But if. on the other hand, things go
the other way — and I think thev will
— if no determined effort is made by
the ILO to disqualify the Communist
so-called employer and worker delegates — we will be faced with the
prospect that the ILO will become
just another Communist-do,ninated organization. And in that case I can say
very frankly that 1 can see no further
constructive purpose to be gained bv
continuing further United States participation in the ILO.
But no matter what we do about the
ILO, remember that this is onlv one ol
the various arms of the United Nations
that are enacting conventions, and
seeking thereby to write laws governing internal domestic affairs and impose them upon us bv the device of
treaty ratification. ... I don't want
the laws of the United States written
lor us bv representatives of over sixty
foreign countries. I say, let's write our
own laws, in our own way. end
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