N international delegation, con- T& sisting of survivors of concentration camps, will discuss with M.P.s the problems arising out of the decision by the West German Government to cease prosecuting war criminals. The delegation will be received in the House of Commons on Tuesday, March gth, at 3.0 p.m., in a room booked by Mr. W. Warbey. The Committee in Defence of Victims of Nazi Persecution is asking all local organisations to send delegates to this meeting. The committee urges people who are concerned about the prospect of Nazi war criminals going scot free to write to their M.P., the Prime Minister and the German Embassy. Accom. for a few nights (before and after the meeting) is needed. Please write to: Mrs. E. Dales, 12 First Avenue, Gillingham, Kent.
& people met on the occasion of India’s National Day, in the Co-op.
on Freedom of Association of the miternational + Ca6our Gffice left Tokyo late in January 1965. The Commission has been investigating the complaints submitted by a number of Japanese trade unions against the Japanese Government for delaying the ratification of ILO Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association. On this occasion Omer Becu, General Secretary of the ICFTU, said “We express our sincere satisfaction at the thorough and conscientious way in which the Committee has engaged itself in its difficult task. “On the other hand we cannot but state our disappointment at the fact that the Japanese Government, while making certain commitments to the Commission, failed to make such concrete undertakings which could have satisfied the trade unions, with the > result that the trade unions did not see a way to accepting the proposals submitted by the Commission. “An illustration of this failure is the long-drawn-out conflict between the Government and the Japan Teachers’ Union (Nikkyoso) which has centred on the refusal of the Government to bargain collectively on a central level. Although the Government has agreed with the view of the Commission that the creation of mutual confidence is necessary to establish a satisfactory labour management relationship, the Government still refuses to engage in collective negotiations with the Teachers’ Union on a central level.”
e | B Kitson collection T has already been reported in | The Week that the Sheffield AEU District Committee has asked Sheffield shop.stewards to support the Kitson Aid Fund. Following on this, Shardlow workers are organising, on a factory basis, a collection.to help the DATA-sponsored campaign. Shardlows is one of the most important and highly organised engineering factories in the Sheffield area. It has a great tradition of solidarity for workers engaged in union struggles. It is very good to see this solidarity extended to the struggle against Apartheid.
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