Show L NEWS I i iI I I r rB B By AUL LLON y Rele Released by Western Newspaper Union CIO REBUKED AT SAN FRANCISCO CONFAB WASHINGTON Here Here is the story no one could get at San Francisco Francisco- the inside story of why Sidney Hillman Hill Hill- man Russian labor and leftists of British trade unions k happened to assemble assem assern ble their new world labor order on OaKland OaK OaK- land across the bay just at the very j day of the opening of the world peace conference a and n d what they were up Y to All inquiries were Sidne Sidney human HUlman pushed aside out there with the thc explanation explanation explanation ex ex- that this new world labor power called caned the World Trade Union Congress was merely looking for reflected reflected reflected re re- publicity from its proximity to the conference or something sim slim similarly similarly inconsequential It is no wonder the story was hidden hidden hidden hid hid- hidi i den securely beneath a rubble of I confusing explanations because it would have disclosed a coup de conference conference con con- ference planned by Mr Hillman and his Russian associates associates-a a coup which was squelched completely in ina ina ina a secret meeting of the conference steering committee despite intervention intervention intervention inter inter- by no less a pow v power r than Molotov Molotov Molotov Mo Mo- himself These ar arc arr the facts I The Oakland labor assembly was completely under control c l t Hillman and md the Russians with the British riding quietly behind them The head ead of the Russian l labor bor delegation pt at t Oakland was also an delegate delegate dele dele- gate for Russia in the San ran cisco isco peace meeting and the pi pipe pi pipeline line between PLAN WORKED UPON Through him the Hillman crowd worked up a program whereby they would all get into the conference and into the permanent peace setup by being esta established bUshed as the group to handle world labor problems They succeeded In getting the economic economic economic eco eco- committee of the conference to approve their entry as consult consult- ants The economic committee includes includes includes in in- strong representation of smaller nations particularly Latin America I IA IA iA A resolution carrying out this purpose purpose pur pur- pose was handed by the economic committee to the steering committee commit commit- tee which is composed of all nations After some warm discussion that guiding committee of the thc conference decided it would not even go into the matter thoroughly and defeated the resolution When Hillman saw this coming he got Molotov to champion hl his hid cause and it was the Russian foreign minister minister minister min min- ister who pressed the matter as far faras faras as it went in the steering committee By his own adroitness II Hillman Hill Hill- ill ill- man thus himself b and disclosed his hand band That J Molotov would champion his cause was too obvious evidence evidence evi evi- dence to everyone e on the inside that their fears and suspicions about Hillmans Hillman's trade union c congress con congress con con- n- n gress had solid ground ground that that tt it was more Russian than worldly A few days later the Oakland meeting quietly adjourned without taking any noticeable action and Mr TIr Hillman went of off to southern Cal California for a rest The frustration of the coup represented represented represented a victory for Bill Green the president who has been vigorously vigorously vigorously vigor vigor- fighting Hillmans Hillman's attempt since the thc last election to establish with the Communist a world labor front WORLD LABOR PLANS Green demanded In resolutions passed by his executive council counch May 8 that world labor be bc represented represented rented In the future world order by bythe bythe bythe the International Labor Office a successful successful successful suc suc- I creature of the old League of Nations Shrewdly he hc did not seek the place for his own world group which is represented by an organization known as the International Federation Federation Federa tion of Trades Unions He did not seek to steal for himself himself him him- self the world authority and power which he would deny to the CIO I crowd but would leave It to an established established es es- es- es League of Nations organ organ- r f His protection was I hear that even the British have become suspicious of Hillmans Hillman's effort ef ef- effort fort tort to align with the Communists in a front which would In hi some ways be as powerful as the thc peace setup of the nations and and If if Hillmans Hillman's coup had gone through through able able to influence the judgment of nations The Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian unions are not free trade unions I understand that even Sir Walter Citrine the British ultra liberal leader Is looking for open doors behind behind behind be be- hind him to escape politely the agreement The British trade unions which f were unanimously represented IE is 4 that London gathering have nou no plit and I do not expect they will wID go very much further with Hillma and the Russian Russian effort to capture world labor controL Hillman by this effort coming atop his domestic electoral activities tics ties has bas lost much ground in Wash Washington Washington Washington ington particularly in congress I |