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BT ARNOLD BEICHMAN.
N. T. Cerrespewde* f«r APL
Weekly Neva Service
New York.—This is how it's done
under s Communist regime, speci
fically in Hungary. A so-called
“rank-and-file” worker in a factory
stands up on a box during a rest
period and says:
“Comrades, I move that we all
vote to work an extra hour today
to help our fellow-comrades in the
French coal mines (or Whatever
the current trouble spot it).
The first time this happened in
the Hungarian factories, the anti
communist worker* demurred. The
next day leaders of the opposition
groups were summoned before the
secret police, and the next time a
“vote” was taken, there was no op
position.
That's the report from the one
time leader of the Hungarian move
ment, Charles Peyer, who recently
arrived in America, an exile from
his native land. He was brought
here by the International Rescue
Committee, an organization of
labor leaders and liberal spokesmen
on whose board are AFL Vice
President Matthews Woll and
ILGWU Vice Presidents Luigi An
tonin! and Louis Stulberg.
In a special interview with the
AFL News Service, Mr. Peyer dis
closed that the work-week in Hun
gary has been increased from 48
hours to 54 hours with no increase
in wages. In fact, the average
weekly wage for an industrial
worker today is worth in purchas
ing power about $10.
Acocrding to Mr. Peyer, the
Communist regime in Hungary
has:
1. Abolished the right to strike.
2. Prohibit a worker from leav
ing one job for another.
3. Introduced political selection
in appointment of foremen and
superintendents.
4. Introduced a spy system in
factories so that in every group
of 10 workers, one is working for
the secret police.
5. Compelled women to work in
factories and abolished prohibition
against child labor. Previously no
child under 14 was allowed to work
in a factory. Today, as Mr. Peyer
said, “they don’t ask questions.”
Worst of all,, he said, the children
are trained to spy on their elders
who work in the factories.
Hungary at one time had a high
standard in social legislation. Since
“sacrifice” is the propaganda line
in present-aay Hungary!, no Hun
garian worker, who values his life,
would dream of taking advantage
of sickness or accident insurance,
old-age pensions, allowances for
dependents or other benefits.
Mr. Peyer, who began his career
as a toolmaker and then became
secretary of the Ironworkers Union
and later secretary-general of the
Trades Union Council, said that
sabotage in industry and agricul
ture was fairly extensive in Hun
gary. However, he deprecated the
Hungarian anticommunist move
ment, saying that it could do little
Green-Meany See
WorW-Wide Fight
On Poverty, Reds
BY ARNOLD BRICHMAN
New York CtrmpwWknt AFL
New* Service.
New York.—President William
Green said that organization of the
International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions in London will
eventually mean “the lifting of
standards of wages and working
conditions in all democratic coun
tries and therefore will be of great
benefit to American workers.”
He made his statement in a
shipboard press conference on the
Queen Mary which brought back
the AFL president as well as
George Meany, sec retry-treasurer;
Charles 3. McGowan, president of
the Boilermakers Union; W. C.
Doherty, president of the Nation
al Association of Letter-Carriers,
and George Harrison, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
all AFL vice presidents.
It was a triumphant return for
the AFL leaders whose negotia
tions with other national trade
union movements had averted any
calamitous rifts and had led the
establishment of a democratic
world labor federation with repre
sentation in S3 nations and able
to speak in the name of 49,750,000
workers.
Working in close harmony with
the AFL officials were the spokes
men for the Congress of Industrial
Organisations. Two of their dele
gates, CIO Vice President Allan
Haywood and David MacDonald,
against the might of the Soviet
army which still occupies the land.
The leader of the Hungarian So
cial Democratic Party who had to
flee the Communist regime under
Bela Kun in 1919, then was im
prisoned by the Fascist dictator
hip of Admiral Horthy, then im
prisoned by the Nazis in the Mau
thausen concentration camp and
finally had to flee for his life when
the Hungarian Communists, under
Matayas Pakosi, came into power.
The International Rescue Com
mittee is currently conducting an
Iron Curain Refugee Campaign to
provide material aid to recently
escaped refugees from Communist
con trotted countries in Europe. The
campaign chairman is Admiral
Richard E. Byrd.
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Steelworkerm mi America, returned
on the some bout sad participated
in the Join preas conference with '
the AFL spokesmen.
"The two. delegations acted unit
edly,” said President Green. "I can
truthfully say that there is real
international unity between both
groups because we agreed so thor
oughly on all proposals. We are
both satisfied with the work done,
and the sound actions taken.”
Secretary Meany stated that
"the kind of unity we have achiev
ed on the international front should
help achieve unity between the
AFL and CIO on the domestic
front.”
Secretary Meany said that the
international confederation would
make possible "a real fight against
communist influence the world
over.” He said:
"The fight against communism
will go on, through the interna
tional confederation of free trade
unions, right inside the iron cur
tain countries. There were many
delegates at the London conference
from Soviet-occupied lands and we
intend to maintain liason with the
democratic elements that remain
in those iron curtain countries."
Secretary Meany also declared
that one of the most important
steps taken by the conference was
"the action against dictator Franco
which should be of great encour
agement to Spanish workers who
are fighting fascism.”
The delegation agreed that the
biggest job would be to intimate
real support for the “point four,”
bold new program, to aid foreign
countries raise their living stand
ards with U. S. help and know
how, and it was President Green
who disclosed that wide co-opera
tion had been pledged in the in
ternational confederation to a pro
gram to implement point four.
A meeting of the confederation’s
executive board is to be convened
in the next few months when appli
cation for consultative status will
be made to the United Nations.
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