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Box 6

 Container

Contains 27 Results:

Foreign - Turkey, 1951

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

"A Trade Union Mission to Turkey" by AFL representative Irving Brown, April 17, 1951, 21 pages

Dates: 1951

Foreign - Vietnam, 1954-1970

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Reprint of study for House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government Information by Dr. Paul Taylor (signed: "For Phil Taft/Sincerely, Paul Taylor"): "Communist Strategy and Tactics of Employing Peasant Dissatisfaction Over Conditions of Land Tenure for Revolutionary Ends in Vietnam," 1970, 28 pages; two pages of tables hand-marked: "AFL-CIO Tet Relief," 1968; clippings; notes

Dates: 1954-1970

Foreign - World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), 1945-1948

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents Unsigned 3 page manuscript, probably speech, by CIO-associated author, March 1, 1945; "Trade Unions and Communism," issued by the Trades Union Congress Publicity Department, October 27, 1948, 3 pages; "World Federation of Trade Unions: Brief History," by Trades Union Congress, October 27, 1948, 3 pages; "TUC Expects No New Federation for Months" prepared by the American Embassy in London, February 9. 1949. 5 pages, ("secret"); press release by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America,...
Dates: 1945-1948

Foreign - World Federation of Trade Unions, 1944-1954

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents "Emergency International Trade Union Council - Summary of the Meeting held in London ... 14 September 1944," 12 pages; press release, AFL President Green criticizes World Trade Union Conference, the CIO, "and their Russian friends," February 19, 1945, 2 pages; statement adopted by the Executive Council of the AFL opposing World Trade Union Congress as Soviet-controlled, May 4, 1945, 7 pages; AFL Executive Council minutes re International Federation of Trade Unions, World Federation of Trade...
Dates: 1944-1954

Foreign - Yugoslavia, 1947-1950

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Several booklets published by Yugoslav government, including two re Greece, 1947-50; "The Tito Regime: Declaration by the Executive Council of the AFL, May 11, 1950," 1 page

Dates: 1947-1950

Foreign - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 1949

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

"Free Trade Unions Form the I.C.F.T.U.," [c. December 1949], 22 pages; "Private and Confidential," ICFTU Executive Board minutes, first meeting, December 8-10, 1949, 14 pages; papers of Preparatory International Trade Union Committee; correspondence; notes

Dates: 1949

Foreign - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1950-1968

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Correspondence between AFL executives George Meany and Matthew Woll re seeking intercession of the Pope on behalf of ICFTU, January 1950; "ICFTU Report of Meeting of Interim Finance Committee," January 17 and 18, 1950, 5 pages; "Report on Emergency Committee Meeting, March 16 to 18, 1950," by AFL representative Irving Brown, 5 pages; "ICFTU Emergency Committee, February 20-23, 1951," report by Irving Brown, 9 pages; AFL Executive Council minutes describing ICFTU meeting, January 26, 1951;...
Dates: 1950-1968

Foreign - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1950-1968

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2cont.
Scope and Contents letter from AFL President Green to ICFTU General Secretary Oldenbroek, protesting ICFTU appointment of representative for Singapore office, February 10, 1951; summary report by Irving Brown re ICFTU Executive Board session, December 2, 1951, 4 pages; "Notes on International Committee Meeting of the AFL," re difficulties with ICFTU, June 18, 1952, 16 pages; "From Irving Brown to George Meany," October 21, 1952, re upcoming ICFTU Executive Board Meeting, 4 pages; "Report by Irving Brown:...
Dates: 1950-1968

Foreign - International Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFTU), 1888-1945

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Letter from AFL Executive Council to Federational Trade Union Congress in London re working conditions, October 27, 1888, 3 pages; correspondence, proceedings, proposals re Inter-Allied Labor Conference, London, September 17-19, 1918; letter to President Roosevelt from AFL President Green re World Economic Conference, May 1, 1933, 3 pages; "Interview with H. V. Tewson and Sir Walter Citrine," July 1, 1938, 8 pages; cablegrams and correspondence between Green, Citrine and AFL Executive...
Dates: 1888-1945

Foreign - International Federation of Free Trade Unions, 1925-1953

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Five unsigned typescripts: four entitled "International Federation of Trade Unions," 3, 4, 5, and 6 pages, n.d., n.d., n.d., and 1942; one entitled "Effects of the War on Free Trade Unions in Europe," 1940, 6 pages; six issues of Trade Union World, monthly journal of the IFTU, 1943-44; June-July 1939 issue of The International Trade Union Movement, official organ of IFTU reporting on Eighth International Trade Union Congress; bulletins of the IFTU (August 12, 1941, 12 pages; July 1, 1942, 8...
Dates: 1925-1953