George Padmore (editor) 1945
Source: The Etext Archives;
First published: as The Voice of Coloured Labour; Speeches and Reports of Colonial Delegates to the World Trade Union Conference – 1945 by PANAF Service Ltd, 58 Oxford Road, Manchester.
Transcribed: for the Marxists’ Internet Archive by Christian Hogsbjerg.
The World Trade Union Conference was held at County Hall, London in February 1945, and was presided over by Mr. George Isaacs, Chairman of the British Trade Union Congress. Besides other illuminating material collected in this report of the conference, the discussions between various delegates to the conference from around the world about fascism, imperialism and Zionism still repay reading today – Transcriber’s note.
Foreword – By George Padmore
Discussion on Peace Settlement
Discussion on World Trade Union Federation
Colonials Challenge Message to Big Three
Citrine’s Ten-Point Programme
Post-War Reconstruction
Declaration of the Attitude to the Peace Settlement
Greetings from British Guiana – By Hubert Critschlow
Conference Decisions
Nigerian Labour on the Move – By T.A. Bankole
General Strike in Nigeria
Trade Union Movement on the Gold Coast – By Joe S. Annan
History of the Trade Union Movement in British Guiana – By Hubert Critchlow
History of the Jamaica Labour Movement – By an Observer