Reply #5: ICFTU=cia front set up to counter those nasty "commie" unions

[Monkie]

http://www.laboreducator.org/darkpast3.htm

"In September 1945, delegates from the labor federations of 56 counties met in Paris to form the World Federation of Trade Unions. Among its affiliates were the CIO, the United Mine Workers, the U.S. railroad unions, the British Trade Union Congress and most of the functioning unions in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The one glaring exception was the American Federation of Labor. Meany, refusing to join the WFTU, said its affiliates lacked “the basic freedoms of speech, press, assembly and religion.” The WFTU, he said, was “primarily part of a struggle to secure world political power for the Communists in the postwar world.”

The AFL began a strong campaign to undermine the WFTU and establish a rival world labor federation under its influence, if not direct control"