INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 21 FOR WEEK ENDING 31 MAY 1950

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• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
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• Publication Date: May 31, 1950
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I..N TERN.ATIONAL ORGA1' IZATIONS DIVISION
WEF1-KLY S MMARY NO. 21
or week ending 31 May 1950
The International Week
Volume III
The US, UK and France announced their decision to take
immediate action both within and Outside the UN to prevent any
threatened violation of frontiers or armistice lines either by
Arabs or Israelis. Secretary General Lie returned to Lake Success,
his Odyssey having apparently failed to effect any immediate prog-
ress toward resolving the UN impasse. Meanwhile Hungary and
Czechoslovakia suit the fifth annual UNESCO conference over the
Chinese seating issue.
Unaffiliated labor organizations being absorbed b WFTU and
ICFTU. As the World Federation of Trade Unions WFTU and the
Free Trade Union Confederation (ICFTU) hold major meetings, a
number of national labor organizations which have thus far pursued
an independent course are aligning themselves with one camp or the
other.
In Budapest, the now completely Sovietized WFTU is preparing
o admit to membership Communist-oriented labor federations from
Nigeria, Guatemala and Pakistan. by exploiting these latest acces-
sions, together with the application of the Burmese Trade Union
Congress and the still recent affiliation of the nationalist
Tunisian labor organization (UGTT), the WFTU leaders will probably
attempt to divert attention from counterbalancing losses in their
worldwide strengtl. The withdrawals of the national labor federa-
tions of Israel (Histadruth) and of Venezuela (CTC) have deprived
the USF'R of effective channels of influence for corsolidating
local Communist strength, and the decision of the Finnish Socialist
labor federation last week to cease paying WFTU dues hits even
closer to home.
In Brussels t, the Western-oriented. ICFTU, already representing
an estimated 50 million trade union members, from 48 countries, is
likely to gain new adherents in the near future. The Socialist
Australian Trade Union Congress, until recently apathetic to
Western overtures, is now angling for affiliation with the ICFTtT.
Furthermore, the Western labor in k;erMational's position in South-
east Asia may be improved when ICFTU and US labor missions en
route to this strategic, area coxnp_tete exp oratory talks with /
Indonesian, Thai and other na i;ive -La Dor _#.eaders 3 CUMENTNO.
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,i$ hli hts of s" eg~nrsao uaustanding on the agenda of the
forthcoming Trusteeship Counci: session will be a decision on
the draft statute for ,erusalem,; examination of annual reports
on certain trust territories (including the US Pacific tes
ship) and debate on the unification of the Ewe tribes Israel' of the Jerusalem statute, together with Jordan?s re-
fusal even to discuss it, insure its return to the GAy while the
recent Israel proposal for a LIT authority in charge of specific
Holy Places, though it may be discussed, is outside the TC o s De-
bate instructions and presumably will not come to a vote
bate on the Ewe tribe, now divided between French and British
Togo ands and the Gold Coast, may prove to be the session's high-
light if France and the UK present the far-reaching proposals
which some months ago they intimated were under considerations
INFT ' drive to ^r?~~, '~* r-et ~o eum workers stalled. The efforts
of theWorld Federation of Trade Unions to Interfere with essential
oil shipments to the US by organizing a Petroluem Workers Intur-
national in Mexico City have apparently been impeded by Communist
losses in the Mexican petroleum unions. These losses, following
the ejection from tie petroleum unions of the supporters of the
CTAL leader, Lombardo Toledano, have reportedly forced the WFTU
to postpone the Mexico City conference at which it intended to
organize the new international. It is probable that the arrest
of key Communist union leaders during the recent Venezuelan
petroleum strike and the outlawing heVenezuelan
Commun pro eist
Party will still further delay execution of
However, the SR, which has a vital interest in the recent CTAL
resolution to deny essential shipments to the US, can be expected
to give increasing assistance to Lombardo?s attempts to rebuild
Communist influence in the Mexican Petroleum Union and to organize
a Comrhuni.sta-oriented petroleum workers federation for all of Latin
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