LIST OF PRINCIPAL MEETINGS ORGANIZED OR CONTROLLED BY WFTU IN 1959

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1959
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LIST OF PRINCIPAL MEETINGS
ORGANIZED OR CONTROLLED BY WFTU IN 1959
Title of Conferences
Meeting of the Executive Committee of WFTU
tes
31 March-3 April 1959
Places
Warsaw
Snonsorshivs
World Federation of Trade Unions
Titer Conference
Meeting of the General Council of WFTU
cs
April 1959
Place l
Peking, China
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Suonsorshins
The World Federation of Trade Unions
Probable Attendances
A total of 147 regular and alternate members of the
General Council are eligible to attend.
Evaluation of Meetings
This is the most important WFTU meeting to be held
between World Congress Meetings. It will undoubtedly
plan WFTU policy.
Title of Conferences
Pacific Area Dockers Conference
Imes
15 April-15 May 1959
Place:
Tokyo
Svonso shin s
1. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union (ILWU), USA.
This union, which was expelled from the CIO in 1950
for following the Communist Party line, has a record of
pro-Communist activity dating from its inception in 1934.
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The ILWU occupies a strategic position in that it has
a virtual monopoly on longshore labor in ports on the
Pacific Coast of the U.S., in Alaska, and in Hawaii.
2. The All Japan Harbor Workers Union (Zen Nihon Kowan
Rodo Kumiai - Zenkowan)
Located at 1825-2 Sanno Ota-Ku, Tokyo, Zenkowan is
affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions of
Japan (Nihon Rodo Kumiai Sohyogikai - SOHYO). Zenkowan
has a claimed membership of 20,261.
3. The Madras Harbor Workers Union
This organization has an estimated membership of
100 (1954). It is affiliated with the All India Port
and Dock Workers Federation.
4. Waterside Workers Federation of Australia
60-66 Sussex Street, Sydney, Australia
This organization with a claimed membership of 26,100
is Communist-dominated. It is affiliated with the Australian
Council of Trade Unions. Representatives of this organiza-
tion have attended WFTU meetings in the past.
5. Waterside Workers and Seafarers Union of Indonesia
Reported as Waterside Workers and Seafarers Union of
Indonesia, this organization is believed to be the Serikat
Burch Pelabuhan dan Pelajaran (SBPP) located in Djakarta.
This Communist-led organization has an estimated 30,000
members. It is affiliated with the WFTU and with the
TUI of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers.
tI a of Conference
Third International Conference of the TUI of Chemical and
Oil Workers
DLt
25 May 1959
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Places
Leipzig
Sponsorships,
Trade Unions International of Chemical and Oil Workers,
a trade department of the WFTU.
Probable Attendance s
At its 1954 Conference this TUI claimed attendance of 130
delegates from 34 countries. It is anticipated that the
proposed Conference will attempt to surpass this figure
by making the Conference as widely representative as
possible. Emphasis will be placed on colonial and semi-
colonial countries.
Comments:
Georges Van Haute, Secretary-General of the TUI, told
the Hungarian Press on January 13 that the 3rd Inter-
national Conference of the TUI would take place in
Leipzig in May. Federations not affiliated to the WFTU
would take part, including those affiliated to the Inter-
national Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU),
the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions,
the International Federation of Arab Trade Unions, and
others belonging to no international federation. The
importance of the Conference would be enhanced by the
fact that it would deal with professional problems of
all branches of the industries, and would provide an
opportunity to discuss international questions of the
chemical, petroleum and allied industries. The agenda
would include questions of trade union co-operation,
living and working conditions, and the tasks of the
affiliated unions in the struggle against colonial
oppression, the abuses of international monopolies, and
for national independence.
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Title of Conference:
First International Conference of the International
Trade Union of Workers in Commerce.
Dates
1-4 June 1959
Places
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Snonsorshin:
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
Evaluat{on of Meetings
It is believed that the attempt to organize this new
TUI as a trade department of the WFTU is being made
in order to counteract the influence of the International
Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees,
which is affiliated with the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions.
mment :
Pierre Delon, Secretary-General of the French National
Federation of Office Workers, has stated that the main
purpose of the Conference was to form a TUI of Workers
in Commerce and to help to bring about close ties
between these workers and their trade unions in all
countries. Subjects to be discussed would include
wages, the general introduction of old-age pension
schemes, working hours, working conditions, health,
and the general application of the ILO Convention No. 100
on equal pay for equal work. The Conference would also
can "for the suspension of death-bringing tests and
a ban-on atomic weapons of mass destruction".
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Trade Unions which have announced that they will take
part in the Conference include: the Union of Com-
mercial Workers in the State of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil, the Union of Commercial, Bank and Insurance
Workers of the Cameroon, and the Dutch Union of Com-
meroi4l, Bank and Insurance Workers (B.V.C. 1958).
The Preparatory Committee for the First International
Conference of Workers in Commerce was reported to have
planned a second meeting in Prague for March 3 and 4,
1958 to examine the state of preparations and the
draft reports for the conference.
Title of Conferences
Third International Conference of the TUI of Miners
Du tees
7-11 July 1959
Place2
Katowice, Poland
Svonsorshius
The TUI of Miners, a Trade Department of the World
Federation of Trade Unions
C~,tt
A meeting of the administrative Committee took place
in Budapest from December 16-18 to survey the TUI's
activities since its last meeting in Halle in January
1958 and to prepare for the 3rd International Con-
ference to be held in Katowice next July.
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Other topics included "professional and trade union
questions, methods of the miners' struggle for unity
and measures against the unemployment resulting from
the crisis in the collieries in Western Europe". The
12 countries represented at the meeting were the USSR,
China, Roumania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Hungary, France, Italy, India, Belgium and Chile, A
Preparatory Committee meeting for this conference Will
probably be held in Prague 28 May 1959.
Title of Conference
Preparatory Meeting of the Afro-Asian Labor Congress.
I e$
July 1959
Places
Tokyo, Japan
Organizations
Trade union organizations in Burma, Ceylon, Ghana,
Indonesia, Morocco, Japan, India, Communist China
and the United Arab Republic have been invited to
send delegates.
Title of Conferences
Second International Trade Conference of Public and
Allied Employees.
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&s
September 1959
Pte:
Leipzig, GDR
Svons orahig:
Trade Unions of Public and Allied Employees.
C etas
Topics to be discussed include united action by public
and allied employees to improve their situation, health
conditions of workers and the effects of automation,
primarily in the postal, telephone and telegraph services.
Title of Conferences
Third International Conference of Workers in the Building,
Wood, and Building Materials Industries
October 1959
Places
Budapest
SUoneorshin:
The TBI of Building, Wood and Building Materials Industries,
a trade department of the WFTU.
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