Foreign - Foreign Affairs, 1944-1956
Scope and Contents
from AFL representative Irving Brown re conditions in Germany, Italy, Greece and Turkey, 5 pages; from Secretary of Italian Federation of Labor, 4 pages; form Italy (2), 4 pages each; from England; six from Japan; "American Labor and the World Crisis," by Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary, Free Trade Union Committee, AFL-CIO, [1956], 17 pages, letter to Trygve Lye, U.N. Secretary-General, from AFL Free Trade Union Committee President Matthew Woll, opposing admission of Red China to the U.N., March 24, 1950, 3 pages; press release, "Statement by the International Labor Relations Committee of the AFL," calling for establishment of an international labor federation of non-Communist trade union, April 7, 1949, 2 pages; resolutions from the 65th and 66th conventions of the AFL, 1946 and 1947 ("Labor Attaches", calling for the creation of an Under-Secretariat of Labor within State Department, and "The U.N. and Slave Labor", calling for a U.N. investigation of forced labor in member nations); "Report on the Work of the Commission of Human Rights," n.d., 2 pages; "Minutes of the International Relations Committee of the AFL," January 31, 1949, 5 pages; "The Stockholm Congress Press Conference," translation from Il Globo of speech by AFL President George Meany, July 17, 1953, 1 page; "Report on England and France," by AFL representative Irving Brown, with "Report on Germany," by Henry Rutz, 4 pages, [c. 1945]; "The AFL and World Labor Unity" by William Green, President, AFL, August 1945 re impossibility of working with Soviet "labor unions", 6 pages; letter to Secretary of State Marshall from Matthew Woll, Chairman, International Labor Relations Department, and Free Trade Union Committee, AFL, re various grievances, June 22, 1948, 3 pages; "Confidential Report on Greece, France and England" by AFL representative Irving Brown, July 7, 1947, 4 pages; five statements by the AFL Executive Council re Summit Conference, U.S. foreign policy recommendations to check Soviet expansion, 1954-55; 9 page speech re AFL and world affairs, May 17, 1954 by Matthew Woll
Dates
- 1944-1956
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Russian
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
16.67 cubic feet
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository