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. . . SITUATION IN FOR MATION REPORT Ten international uniow representing more than 4,000,000 workers will officially participate in a "Labor f o r Peace" conference at the headquarters of the International Brotherhood of T e a m s t e r s Local 688 in St. Louis on 23-24 June. - .The purpose of the conference is to establish a new "Labor for Peace" organization whose principal aim will b e to bring an im- mediate end to the w a r in Southeast Asia. The international unions participating in the conference include the following: The International Brotherhood of T e a m s t e r s : United Auto Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers: AFL-CIO: the West Coast International Longshoremen m i o n ; the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers; the National Council of Distributive Workers; the National Hospital Union: the International Jewelry Workers : and the Furnitur'e Workers Union. The "Labor for Peace" group is being spearheaded by the * leadership of the United Auto Workers. Leftist labor leaders back- ing the antiwar group are: David Livingston, s e c r e t a r y t r e a s u r e r of the Distributive Workers of America: Harold Gibbons, international vice president of the Teamsters: Clifton Caldwell, vice president of dent of the American Federation of Teachers. I I the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union and William Simons, vice p r e s i - David Livingston who was once active in the Young Communist League organized the Communist Party-led "bring-the boys -home- strikes" in the mid 1940's. CPUSA influenced Peoples Coalition for P e a c e and Justice. Harold J. Gibbons was once active in the Workers Defense Lcague (1951) an affiliate of thc Socialist P a r t y (a.Marxist organization), the National Council Against Conscription (a cilcd Communist front group in 1948), and i s currently a spokesman for the National P e a c c Action Coalition which i,s conlrokd by the Trotskyitc Socialist Workcrs William Simons-ofThc Washington, D. C, teachers union was ,a most vocal backer of the left-wing "Childrens March for Survival!' He is currently a spokesman for the - P'zrty.