Val Lorwin Collection of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Documents
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Scope and Contents
Includes reports of organizational minutes of the 2nd and 3rd meetings of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Council for Organising Campaign in France, held in Paris and Brussels, 1952-1953.
The reports deal with the following: union courses for miners, transport workers, and metal workers; special trade-union courses for Polish miners; and future education programs in France. Also reports of the International Metalworkers Federation, Railwaymen's Federation, National Federation of Workers in the Electricity and Gas Industries, Federation of Building and Wood Workers, Federation of Textile Workers of France and France Overseas, National Federation of Workers in the Chemical and Glass Industries, National Federation of Port and Dock Workers and workers in allied trades.
Rapport sur la propagande en France et en Italie, in French.
Dates
- 1952-1953
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, French
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The largest international organization of free trade-unions the International Confederation of Free Trade-Unions, (ICFTU) includes affiliated unions in 94 countries. The ICFTU was formed in 1949, when it seceded from the World Federation of Trade Unions in protest of the alleged communist orientation of that body. ICFTU headquarters are in Brussels.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Include reports and organizational minutes of the 2nd and 3rd meetings of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Council for Organising Campaign in France, held in Paris amd Brussels, 1952-1953.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
minutes (administrative records), administrative reports.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, November 01, 2007
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, April 22, 2016
- Building trades -- Labor unions
- Chemical workers -- Labor unions -- France
- Glassworkers -- Labor unions -- France
- International labor activities
- Labor unions -- Organizing -- France
- Metal-workers -- Labor unions
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- France
- Textile workers -- Labor unions -- France
- Utility employees -- Labor unions
- Workers' education -- France
- Workers' education -- Metal-workers
- Workers' education -- Miners
- Workers' education -- Miners -- Poland
- Workers' education -- Transport workers
- Title
- Lorwin, Val Collection of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 22, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853