WORLD FEDERATION OF TEACHERS' UNIONS (FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE SYNDICALE DE L'ENSEIGNENMENT-FISE)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140013-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 1, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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WORLD FEDERATION OF TEACHERS'UNIONS
(Federation Internationale Syndicale de 1' Enseignement-FISE)
A Compilation of Available Basic
Reference Data -- Affiliates and Parallel
Organizations, Strength, Officers, Addresses,
Publications.
Based on Data Available
as of 1 October 1956
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WORLD FEDERATION OF TEACHER UN
(Federation Internationale Syndicale de 1'Enseignement-FISE)
A. Headquarters Address:
Formerly located at Schwindgasse 7, Vienna IV, Austria.
In February 1956 the FISE was expelled from Austria.
It has not announced the new location of its headquarters.
B. Regional Offices:
None
C. Claimed Membership:
Seven million (1956) in 27 countries (1954).
D. Official Publication:
Teachers of the World (Quarterly)
E. Executive Officers (1956):
Administrative Committee
President: Henri WALLON (France)
Vice Presidents: Ivan GRIVKOV (USSR)
FAN Ming (Communist China)
Cesar GODOY Urrutia (Chile)
Antonio BANFI (Italy)
Gueye ABDOULAYE (Senegal)
Secretary General: Paul DELANOUE (France)
Secretaries: Maria MARCHANT (Chile)
Dimitri TAPTIKOV (USSR)
Members: Eustachy KUROTCZKO (Poland)
Stoiko DOBREV (Bulgaria)
Rafael TISCHLER (Guatemala)
Taieb DJADIR (Algeria)
J. P. SAINZ (Mexico)
Vaclav KOUKOL (Czechoslovakia)
Erika WENDLAND (East Germany)
N'GUYEN Khan Toan (North Vietnam)
Auditing Commission: Petre RADU (Rumania)
KOVACS, first name unknown (Hungary)
Rudolf KRAICHEL (Austria)
This organization is a trade department of the World Federation of
Trade Unions (WFTU).
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F. National Affiliate
or Parallel Organizations
Affiliate
1. ALBANIA
Educationl and Trade Workers
Union of Albania
Federatio of Democratic Teachers
and Educa ors
3. BULGARIA
Education 4l and Press Workers
Trade Uni n of Bulgaria,
4. CAMEROONS
Teachers' Union of the Cameroons
5. CHINA (Comm nist)
All-China ducational Workers
Union
Claimed membership (1956): 2, 000, 000
6. CHILE
A "Union o Teachers" was reported by
FISE in July 1953 as being an affiliate.
This organ zation was not further described
and its present status is not known.
7. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Union of E ucational Workers of
Czechoslovakia
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Information is not avai.able at this time concerning any parallel organization.
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Affiliate s
8. FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA
Teachers' Union of French Equatorial
Africa
9. FRENCH WEST AFRICA
Coordinating Committee of Teachers'
Unions of French West Africa
10. GERMANY (East)
Trade Union of Teachers and Educators
of the German Democratic Republic
11. HUNGARY
Union of Hungarian Teachers
Address: Gorkij fasor 34/36,
Budapest VI
12. INDIA
a. The Elementary School Teachers' Union (Calcutta)
b. Teachers' Federation of Tamilnad
c. Teachers' Federation of Andhra Rastrah
13. ITALY
Italian Association for the Defense of
National Schools
14. MEXICO
National Trade Union of Educational Workers
(Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la
Educacion - SNTE)
Claimed membership: 120, 000
(In 1955 a reliable source reported that the SNTL
had been affiliated with the FISE since its inception.
In 1956 another source reported that the.. SN;TE
was definitely not affiliated. Clarification is being sought.)
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15. MONGO.
Mong
,16. MOROCi
Fede:
17. NORTH:
E duc a
18. POLANE
IA
Tian Union of Educational Workers
0
ation of Teachers of Morocco
KOREA
tional Workers Trade Union
Union of Educational Workers of Poland
Address: Spasowskiego 6,
Warsaw
Publication: Glos Nauczycielski
19. RUMANI
Union of Educational Workers of Rumania
Publication: Gazeta Invatamintului
20. U.S.S.R.
Union
School
21. VIETNA
Nation
Claim(
f Workers of Primary and Secondary
of RS FS.R
(North)
Ll Federation of Educational Workers
d membership: 10, 000
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