RUSSIA ACCUSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 7

RUSSIA ACCUSED

REVOLUTION CAMPAIGN DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN RECOVERY Rec. 9 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. The powerful American Federation of Labour has accused Russia of trying to stir up a revolution throughout Europe and has announced a threepoint campaign to combat “ Moscow propaganda which misrepresents and seeks to destroy” the Marshall Plan for European recovery. Mr William Green, the A.F.L. president, said that as part of its anticommunist fight, the organisation would: First, call a conference of labour representatives, of 16 Western European nations “ to consider how labour can promote the economic rehabilitation of Europe under the Marshall Plan.” Secondly, call on its 8,000,000 members to purchase food for immediate shipment to “ needy workers of Europe.” Thirdly, expand its own programme of assisting the “ free trade - union movements of Europe ” to broaden the exchange of more detailed information on subjects vital to labour on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr Green- said that while the United States' “seeks to restore the economy of Europe to a self-sustaining basis, Russia is trying to starve Europe into a revolution and thus extend the international domain of Communism.”