1st MAY – LABOUR DAY

    On the occasion of the 1^st May 1947, International Labour Day, the World Federation of  Trade Union issues an appeal to all workers of the world, men and women.                

     The Trade Unions have acquired an influence and a position of importance in the economic, social and political life of many countries. In some of them, the Trade Union Centres have been able to obtain a large number of claims obtained in the declaration of the World Conference held in London in February 1945, even though the first anxiety of the workers has been to reconstruct what was destroyed by the war and Hitlerian barbarity.

     On the occasion of the FIRST MAY, International Labour Day, the  W.F.T.U  requests all its affiliated organizations to throw all their strength into the struggle against reaction, in order to ensure complete protection for the interests and legitimate rights of the workers.

                   Workers of all countries defend your trade union rights Demand:-

·  That an end be put to exploitation and to social and economic discrimination under all its forms, whether if race, religion or sex.

·        Equal pay for equal work for women and young people

·       The practical application of full-employment and the fixing of the salaries which will ensure the in dependable standard of  living for the workers.

·       Paid annual holidays where this is not applied

·       Freedom of speech, assembly, press and organisation

·       The rooting out of Fascism under whatever form it shows itself.

·       The real [d..sification] of Germany  and the democratisation of Japan

 

     On the occasion of the 1^st of May, 1947, the World Federation of Trade Unions appeals to all workers who are still outside its ranks to unite their efforts to those of its 71 million members in the interests of democracy and peace.

   

    LONG LIVE THE UNITY OF THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD

     LONG LIVE THE WORLD FEREDRATION OF TRADE UNIONS  

Source: AITUC Papers NMML