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Box 6

 Container

Contains 27 Results:

Foreign - International Labor Organization (ILO), 1914-1971 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Five unsigned typescripts, "International Labor Organization" (one, "--and the AFL-CIO"), 1942, 1943, c. 1944, c. 1971, c. 1971; addresses by Rudolph Faupl, U.S. Worker Delegate to ILO conventions, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971; statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on 50th Anniversary of the ILO, February 23, 1968; address by AFL-CIO President George Meany "at an International Conference in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ILO," May 8, 1969, 5 pages; address by Meany to ILO...
Dates: 1914-1971

Foreign - ILO/World Health Organization, 1944-1949 Request Item

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

Letter to President Roosevelt from AFL President Green refusing to share ILO representation with the CIO, March 13, 1944, 3 pages; "Our Expanding International Relations," address by Assistant Secretary of Labor over CBS radio, August 3, 1946 re U.S. in ILO, 5 pages; articles; correspondence; notes

Dates: 1944-1949

Foreign - International Labor Relations Department, 1935-1949 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Press release, AFL President Green protests purchase of German steel for construction of New York Triborough Bridge, November 1, 1935, 2 pages, with 2 page letter to WPA administrator attached; form letters (1938, calling for labor boycott of German goods and services; 1940, supporting German Labor Delegation to U.S.); letter from AFL official Matthew Woll announcing appointments to International Labor Relations Committee, February 18, 1944; letter from Woll re activities and finances of...
Dates: 1935-1949

Foreign - Italy, 1944-1956 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Correspondence between AFL President William Green and Italian labor leaders, 1948-50; manuscripts containing: ("Members of the U.I.L. Governing Committee," 3 pages; translation of article from Il Popolo, official organ of the Christian Democratic Party, July 4, 1950; "Results of the Election of Shop Committees in the Past Few Months," 7 pages; "The Trade Unions Situation in Italy," signed by Italian labor leaders, May 1951, 7 pages; "Unione Italiana Larbro - Memorandum," c. 1950, 3 pages);...
Dates: 1944-1956

Foreign - Japan, 1937-1952 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Telegram from AFL International Labor Relations Department Chairman Matthew Woll to U.S. Secretary of War Robert Patterson and Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson and General Douglas MacArthur, protesting affiliation of Japanese trade unions with World Federation of Trade Unions, March 1947; confidential letter "to all International Presidents of the AFL" from AFL Free Trade Union Committee re "Growing Threat to Free Labor in Japan," July 1948, 2 pages; letter to Meany recommending...
Dates: 1937-1952

Foreign - Korea, 1948-1950 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Letter from Labor Advisor to Seoul City Labor Bureau to AFL President Green re "get me out of here," July 1, 1948, 2 pages; statement by the Executive Council AFL re Soviet invasion of South Korea, recommending five-point program, August 10, 1950, 2 pages; AFL press release re military preparedness, July 17, 1950, 3 pages; clippings, notes

Dates: 1948-1950

Foreign - Latin America, 1915-1963 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents Letters from AFL President Samuel Gompers, 1916 and 1919; "Report on Mexican Labor Relations and Affairs," by Matthew Woll, n.d. 6 pages; correspondence re "The Mexican Federation of Labor and Communist Propaganda," 1926-27, 5 pages; "Confidential Memorandum" to AFL President Green from AFL representative Robert Watt re Meeting with South American labor representatives in Santiago, Chile, September 11, 1942, 4 pages; "The Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs," unsigned, 1943, 5 pages;...
Dates: 1915-1963

Foreign - Latin America, 1948-1970 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

"U.S. Labor Policy in Peru - Past and Future," by William A. Douglas, official (on leave) with AIFLD, c. 1970, 33 pages; "U.S. Labor Policy and Peru," prepared by William J. McIntire for the Adlai Stevenson Institute Conference on U.S.-Peruvian Relations, May 24-26, 1970, 36 pages; clippings

Dates: 1948-1970

Foreign - Middle East, 1955-1970 Request Item

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

"International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions: An Informational Note," translated from Sovietskie Prfsoyovsy, June 1970, 2 pages; clippings; notes

Dates: 1955-1970