Unionists for Peace

Object of the Third (Communist) International is the violent World Revolution of the World Proletariat which finds its best chances of success in the upheavals of another world war. Object of the Second (Socialist) International is Peace. Fittingly, its headquarters are in Belgium, its chairman today is venerable Emile Vandervelde, an elder statesman once Premier and Foreign Minister.

Last week M. Vandervelde maintained constant contact with Sir Walter Citrine, the recently knighted British Labor leader who heads the International Federation of Trade Unions. Except in Germany, Russia and Italy -- countries in which trade unionism has been subordinated to the State -- nearly all trade unionists are interlocked with the International Federation which is emphatically for Peace.

Finally last week M. Vandervelde and Sir Walter decided that Europe's present crisis is so grave (see p. 25) that the Second International and the International Federation of Trade Unions must again meet in joint congress for the first time since their joint effort to avert the World War failed. Rushing out invitations for such a congress on March 18, they prepared for a supreme Socialist-Labor effort to maintain Peace.

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