Abstract

The People's Front

This article focuses on the role of workers in maintaining unity in the face of World War II. Until now only labor has taken effective international action. Governments and workers began to deal with the peace at the same moment. But while governments wrangled at San Francisco, the labor leaders of the world were working together in Oakland to build a new international. Few people paid any attention to their efforts, of the thousand newspapermen in San Francisco, only a half-dozen of crossed the bridge to Oakland to watch them at work. The World Federation of Trade Unions has demanded representation in the United Nations Organization (UNO) in an advisory capacity. Its demand should be strongly supported by everyone who wants to avoid a new war. The presence of the labor international would inject blood and sinew into the UNO.