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Exiled Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski made the two men members (in absentia) of his temporary Polish Parliament. Poles in London and the U.S. tried to obtain the pair's release, and arranged for visas to the U.S. Trade-union leaders, Jewish organizations and such U.S. figures as Raymond Gram Swing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer...
...husband, Publisher John Boettiger of the Post-Intelligencer. Across the Sound, he visited Bremerton's great Navy yard. For the first time news of his trip got into print. An A.F. of L. newspaper which goes to 40,000 Boeing employes scare-headed his appearance, added a sound trade-union angle: "The main thing that was on the lips of most of the members . . . was will he do anything about our wage situation...
...Trade-union members must be "protected by the state from unfair political pressure by the organizations themselves...
...mature, relatively conservative British trade-union system-in contrast to the adolescent turmoil of U.S. management-labor relations-provided a favorable backdrop for such drastic decisions. Moreover the British law is democratic in intention: it treats all citizens alike, workers moved under the plan get travel expenses and an allowance for living away from home, those who think they have been treated unjustly can take grievances to joint management-labor committees which constitute a jury of their peers. But in the name of war, Britons live under a totalitarian labor system...
Commented the Congress' General Secretary, sharp-brained, smooth-mannered Sir Walter Citrine: "The war is being made an excuse for the Government's failure to deal with this reform. National unity does not mean that the trade-union movement should be gagged. . . . Labor's loyalty has been badly strained...