Cold-war politics:
free Employers
The Second World War solved the problem of authoritarian Governments in most of Western Europe but entrenched it elsewhere. The issue of Employers and Workers being arms of Government with no effective autonomy in countries behind the “Iron Curtain” had been emerging and came to a head in 1953 when a complaint was lodged against the appointment of the Czechoslovak Employers’ delegate, described in his ILC credentials as an “official of the Ministry of Heavy Engineering”.