Mr. Gibson is playing an important role in the furthering of Anglo-American relations through a series of two-way talks of William Green, President of the A. F. of L. They discuss labour problems and Mr. Gibson is aided by men and women in different walks of life in Britain who describe wartime life—bus /conductors. ambulance drivers, fire watchers, teachers, journalists and seamen.
Mr. Gibson told me something about Charles Jarman, a seaman who broadcast recently. Mr.
an is Secretary of the Interna'onal Sea-'s Union and, after visiting the United States to arrange for hospitality there for merchant crews. he has paid a remarkable tribute to American hospitality. The name Jarman is on the Congressional Record for Charles' father earned an inscribed gold watch from President Cleveland for rescuing: the crew of the training ship Lambert in the Atlantic. Charles was wearing the watch when he broadcast.
Mr. Gibson feels he has one foot well on the other side of the Atlantic. Both he and his wife have all their brothers and sisters in the United States or Canada. Mr. Gibson has been from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States on T-U.C. errands and incidentally he was attached to a United States battery in France toward the end of the World War. All this helps to explain his ardour for a furtherance of Anglo-American unde: ing and, ce-operation. particularly in the la ie "But we are nos getting our case across." he said. "The labour viewpoint and the full story of working class life isn't being told to America. Existing British official quarters in the United States, -he affirmed, were largely unable recount the story which we in this office could st. Pasker of' the National "Gates them. They ought to hear more people like
He spoke frankly and pointedly about information which came out of the embassies and official news channels. He suggested that Sir Gerald Campbell should return to the United States with an assistant fitted to tell the story of ordinary British folk. He criticized the fact that unqualified titled folk from Britain still sometimes spoke at American luncheons about British social conditions. He advocated a stream of British workers going to the United States to tell Americans first hand about their jobs as firewatchers. munition workers. in ARP. and auxiliary fighting services. in kitchens and behind counters. And is won't be a one way stream either if T.U.C. pressure on the Government succeeds.
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