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Show The Dayton (Ohio) Labor Union (Labor) says: 'DO SOMETHING ABOUT RUSSIA While frightened alarmists go around talking about the Communist danger, the Arnerican Federation Federa-tion of Labor is proceeding to do something about it. Last week two AFL actions did more to hurt Russian aggression, and to hurt it where it really matters, than all the fist-shaking of .the newspaper columnists and the radio commentators. The first of these actions took place in New York where members of the International Longshoremen Association gave Fiorello La Guardia the worst showing show-ing up of his career by halting the loading of American Ameri-can goods which he wras sending as UNRRA gifts to , Marshal Tito. Furthermore, the ILA, with-the approval of its top officers, firmly announced that its members would load no more boats for Yugoslavia as long as its tin-pot tin-pot dictator proceeds to make insulting gestures at the United States. The timid souls in UNRRA said nothing could be done to stop shipping American commodities to Communist Yugoslavia, in the face of possible war, but the AFL longshoremen found a way. The other event took place on the other side of the continent in San Francisco-Here Francisco-Here the convention of the International Broth erhood of Electrical Workers resolved its differences in ope great note of harmony by passing a resolution asking that President Truman embargo the shipment of all building materials, particularly electrical supplies, sup-plies, to Soviet Russia- The resolution was roared through with scarcely a dissenting vote. These are real steps to put punch into our nation's na-tion's wobbly Soviet policy. They demonstrate, once again, that America's real line of defense against international Communism is its democratic trade union movement. |