STATEMENT BY GEORGE MEANY PRESIDENT, AFL-CIO BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

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STATEMENT BY GEORGE MEANY
PRESIDENT, AFL-CIO
BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMIT
August 1, 1969
Mr. Chairman:.
I wish to express my appreciation for this opportunity to appear before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and to clarify the role of the AFL-CIO inter-
n;tt ion; 11 y If also appear to describe the work of the American In for Cree
Labor Development in Latin America since its effectiveness was challenged at a
hearing of this Colmnittee on July 14, 1969 according to UPI press reports published
throughoul the United States and Latin America, which I quote:
CHAIRMAN J. WILLIAM FULBRICHT OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
SUGGESTED TODAY THAT FUNDS FOR AN AFL-CIO LABOR INST1TUIE IN LATIN
AMERICA HAD BEEN "THE PRICE WE PAID" FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE MEANY'S
SUPPORT OF THE U. S. POLICY IN VIETNAM.
FULBRIGHT SAID HE HOPED THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION WOULD REVIEW THE
PROGRAM, FOR WHICH U. S. GOVERNMENT AUDITORS COULD FIND "NO SPECIV1G
CONCLUSIONS ON THE RELATIVE SUCCESS."
AlD ADMINISTRATOR JOHN A. HANNAH SAID HE WOULD LOOK INTO IT.
FILBRIGHT SAID THE PROGRAM HAD INVOLVED CLOSE TO $20 MILLION SINCE
ITS INCEPTION. IT INCLUDED ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS FUNDS, CHANNELED
INTO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE VOR FREE LABOR DEVELOPMENT WITH THE
STATED PURPOSE OF STRENGTHENING THE DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNION LEADER-
SHIP IN LATIN AMERICA.
THE NEW AID MEL CONTAINS $1 MILLION FOR THE INSTITUTE DURING THE
COMING YEAR. IT IS ADMINISTERED BY THE AFL-CIO.
"I HAVE WONDERED IF THIS REPRESENTED TUE PRICE WE PAID FOR MR MANY'S
SUPPORT IN VIETNAM," FULBR1GHT SAID. "HE WAS A STALWART SUPPORTER OF
THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION POLICIES, BUT I SHOULD NOT MINN THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION WOULD FEEL INDEBTED TO HIM."
On [hat occion, Secretary of ;Ante Rwjers wa;; a:;kod'a quef;tion by the Chair-
man concerning funds allocated to the AIFLD under its contract with the Agency
for International Development. He said, "Is this the price we pay them .to support
us in Vietnam?" According to the transcript of the Committee hearing at that
session, the Chairman also quoted from a,letter dated May 20, 196O, addressed to
him, signed by Mr. iUmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of tho Unitod States,
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which he read as follows:
"...We are not able during our review to reach any specific. conclusion.
on the relative success of the institute as an instrument for achiev-
ing U. S. foreign policy objectives in the labor sector..."
Rased upon this sentence from the Stoats' letter and two newspaper articles which
he subsequently inserted into the Record, the Chairman concluded that there is
'considerable doubt about the effectiveness" of the AIFLD work in Latin America.
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Further, according to the transcript, the Chairman indicated that in a number .of
?countries the AIFLD labor in have been closed down by the host country for
? meddling in internal politics.
It is interesting to note that Chairman Fulbright read only the opening
sentence of a paragraph from the Staats' letter that attempted to evaluate the
work of the Institute.
I would like to read into the Record the full evaluation, the complete para-
graph of GAO Comptroller Stants' letter from which that sentence was taken:
.We were not, able during our review to reach any specific conclu-
sion on the relative success of the institute as an instrument for
achieving H. S. foreign policy objectives in the labor sector. We agree
that (emphasis mine) the institute represents a realistic and imaginative
approach to some of the major problems of the Western Hemisphere. For
example, it provides a moans whereby the workers of Latin America can
participate in the Alliance for Progress and become more active in the
economic and social progress of their countries..,"
To us it is most incomprehensible that the Chairman of this Committee in
effect took a sentence out of context from a paragraph in the GAO letter which was
obviously intended to be quite complimentary of the AlFLD, giving it credit for
having "a realistic and imaginative approach" and "providing a means whereby the
workers can participate in the Alliance for Progress."
As to the statement that some in-country institutes had been closed down by
ihe host countries, T. wish to state very clearly and simply that this is not true.
The AiVLD has never been closed down in any country anywhere. I state categori-
cally that the immn, which is now operating in more than 20 countries and
territories in the Western Hemisphere, has been specifically invited by the workers
in the trade union movement in each of these countries.. We are proud of ourlong-
standing fraternal relationships with these workers.
...The_AFL7C10 has always insisted on a deep sense of fiscal responsibility and
we expect and 'welcome the continued scrutiny by the General Accounting Office and
the Agency for International Development. This is as it should be especially
because we are aware that we are using public funds under contract. Our policy has
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always heen one of complete and total cooperation with both of these agencies o'
(Jove rtiniont
Moreover, I want to assure each and every member of this Committee
that we Welcome CriliGiSM. We-nre.learning as-we-go'on with our work- in this
'comparatively new field. litt we do not equate unfounded and carping accusations'
with cow,lialctive criticism.
Wc are thoroughty fami with the report made by the GAO to this Committee'
in Mny, 1960, which was included in a Committee print of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee's Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs entitled, "Survey of
the Alliance for Progress Labor Policies and Programs." We were assured by Senator
Wayne
Morse, the then Chairman of the Subcommittee, that this report, prepared by
a WI'. 11ohert h. Doclwry, Was still only a staff report despite the fact that it
appeared in Committee Print. We did note, of course, the disclaimer in the intro-
duction Lo tho report which state( 1 that it did not express the official view of
the Subcommittee. Nevertheless, it was released to the public, picked up by
unfriendly news media throughout the world and made to appear as. an attack by the
enate Subcommittee on the AIFLO.
In a letter of August 5, 1960, to Senator Morse, I stated that the AIFLD has
sibmitted a memorandum concerning the GAO report, which you will find on page 80 of
the Committee Print. :its() pointed out that the Subcommittee report "contains quite
a number or inaccuracies," that "the author made little attempt to make a balanced
assessment" and further that "the document reflects preconceived and biased view-
points without any foundation in fact."
in view- of the unfounded assertions and conclusions of that report, we had
requested that the Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs issTe as a Committee
Print my letter of August 5, 1960 to Senator Morse, which included the AIFLD analy-
sis of the "Dockery Report" and also to include in such Committee Print the AIFLO
response to an extensive Subcommittee questionnaire regarding AIFLD activities
dated July 25, 1967. Since. Communist and other extremist elements throughout the
world continue to utilize this biased anti-labor report of the Subcommittee as part
of their incessant propaganda against the efforts of our country to improve the lot
of the working man under the Alliance for Progress, we reiterate this request. I
am sure Ihis Committee, in the interest of fairness will honor our request that
our rep Ly be issued as a Committee Print.
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We had an agreement with Sonator''Morse.hat, soon after the elections last
November, a. specialmeeting of the Subcommittee Would be held, giving us the oppor-
tunilry to set .forth our viewpoints regarding the Dockery .Report.- however, the Sub-
commill(!n hearing w4S never held 1
ecause the Senator became involved in -a vote
recount in Oregon and other matters. Nevertheless, the Senator was kind enough
to include our answers in the Congressional Record.
At this point, I would like to submit our replies to the aforementioned Sub-
committee questionnaire of July 25, 1967, my letter to Senator Morse of August. 5,
196B, and the entire Dockery Report, including the GAO report, as a part of the
Record of this hearing. In addition, I would also like to put into the Record the
reply ol ;enator Morse to my letter of August. 5, 1966 in which Senator Morse agreed
to schedule a public hearing by the Subcommittee in which myself and other, spokes-
men or the AVL-CIO could present their views to the Subcommittee. This public hear-
ing, promised by Senator Morse on this matter, has not been held to date.
It is a gratuitous insult to the American labor movement to accuse us of
receiving a payoff for supporting the foreign policy of any administration. We
are indeed proud of our support of the U. S. government during World War If, during
the Korean War and during the war that is now taking place in Vietnam. Our offi-
cirri attitude regarding Vietnam was first made known in a resolution which was
adopted by the then American Federation of Labor Executive Council as long ago as
May, 1954. I ask that a copy of this resolution be placed in the Record. (Insert
A). Then as now, our solution to the Vietnam situation called for a peaceful
settlement through free elections. We further proposed to the Senate Foreign
kelations COmmittee and the Administration in 1951 that the following measures,
amongst others, be adopted: 1) that there should be a special session oC the
United Nations General Assembly mobilizing world support for ending the war in
cridochinn, safeguarding its national independence and territorial integrity and
helping in its reconstruction; 2) that the special session of, the U. N. General
Assembly should insist on the full application of the principle of free elections
in lridoehinn; and 3) that within the provisions of the U. N. Charter a regional
defense organization should be established to build a Pacific Alliance for Peace
and Frocdom
IL is my opinion that the fundamental issues of national independence and
territorial integrity are as valid today as in 1954.
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Our involvement with Latin America stems from 1916 when the American
Federation of Labor joined with Latin American labor leaders to found the. Pan,
American Federation of Labor. After World War II we expanded significantly our
activities throughout the world, including Latin America where we helped to establish
the first Inter-American Conference of Workers. In 1951, we also helped to establish
the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers which exists actively to this
day, and is known as the ORIT.
In August 1960, when we came to a full realization as to what happened to
the Cuban workers and the entire Cuban people under Castro, the AFL-CIO appropriated
$20 thousand for the purpose of studying the establishment of a mechanism through
which we could help to strengthen the free labor unions of Latin America and develop
trade union leadership. This led to the creation of the AIFLO, during the Eisenhower
Administration and long before the establishment of the Alliance for Progress.
We did not then and do not now want our Latin American trade union brothers
to pattern their unions after our organizations in the United States.
We do expect and hope, however, that they will build unions which are strong,
independent, representative of the workers and capable, through their own efforts, of
improving the conditions of the workers, and making a contribution to the economic
development of their own countries.
Throughout the years we had always wanted to see Latin American trade unionists
and workers build a more effective labor movement. We hoped we could assist them to
make significant contributions of their own to the economic and social development
of their own countries.
Now, you might ask, "Why do we have this interest? Why would American unions
have an interest in 'the situations in Latin America, in the workers of Latin America?"
The AFL-CIO has always had an interest in workers in every part of the world.
That is fraternal solidarity, humanitarianism in the best sense of the world. We
have a stake in the freedom of workers everywhere. We have learned from experience
that when workers in other countries lose their freedom where they are forced to
submit to the yoke of a dictatorship or tyrannical government of any kind, their
repression and enslavement constitute a grave threat to our own freedom. And of
course, we have learned from the history of recent years that the very first to lose
their freedoms are the workers. For these reasons, AFL-CIO international activities
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have alwo,s been extensive so that in addition to the Al CLI) in Latin America, we
sponsor institutes conducting a broad range of siMilar assistance in Africa and Asia.'
I would like to emphasize, Mr. Chairman, that we are not looking for or trying to
recruit members for the AM?CIO in .any country of any of these continents.
in view or our extensive international activities, on which we spend nOooj.
Th or our income, it Was only natural when we looked at Latin America, our closest
nPighbors in the trade union field, we felt that-we had a responsibility as workers
to workers--yes, .a great humanitarian responsibility--to be of help. We also felt,
as American citizens, that it was certainly in the interest of our country that free
governments be achieved and maintained in the Western Hemisphere. Now I'm not going
to tell you that we have never made mistakes or performed miracles. Latin America
still has its great problems. For example, there is still too much money being spent
for unnecessary military hardware in many countries and too little being spent on
the welfare of the people. But we are trying to make a contribution to help the
working people or these lands play a constructive role in building democratic societies
through free trade unions.
The AM,-CID Executive Council decided unanimously that we should bring enlight-
ened American business into this institution on the theory that they should also
have an interest in developing a friendly attitude towards the building of free
societies in Latin America. They naturally want to do business there, and they cert?
ainly want to do business with countries that have viable economies. We feel that
you cannot have a viable economy unless you have the positive participation of all
segments or the society, especially the workers who are the most important element of
production and consumption. So we went to American business, and we told them why
we thought they should cooperate. We got a most encouraging response.
The result is that we have some outstanding American businessmen contributing
lo the work of the AIFLD including Peter Grace, our chairman, President of the
W. N, Grace Company; Mr, William Hickey, President of the
United Corporation; Mr. H. W. Balgooyen, Director of EBASCO Industries; Mr. Berent
Friele, Senior Vice President, American International Association for Economic
and Social Development; Mr. Juan Trippe, founder and for many years head of Pan
American Airways; Mr. Henry Woodbridge of the True Temper Corporation, among others.
e have several outstanding businessmen sitting on the Board of Trustees, headed by
our Chairman, J. Peter Grace. It. should be noted that in going to these businessmen,
we told them quite frankly what we wanted to do; namely; to help strengthen free trade
Onions in Latin America.
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At this point I would like to Submit for the Record a list of the American
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corporations and individual businessmen who have contributed to .the AIFLp. (Insert B)
The kFL-C1U feels that in our democratic society the voluntary organizations -
have a great role to play in influencing and molding the foreign relations of our
country. This is our responsibility as citizens and trade unionists. While we welcome:
and appreciate the assistance .4,111,0 has received from our government 'through the
in order lo carry out our programs, we would also like to point out that contributions.
in excess of $2,300,000 have been made to our work in?Latin America from the AFL-CIO
and the listed corporations.
In addition, the AFL-CIO and U.S. private investors
have themselves committed $31 million for low-cost worker housing sponsored by AIFLD.
Now, let me get to the actual work of the AIFLD which falls into two categories..
One is workers' education. The second is social projects whose objective is to improve
workers' standards or living under the Alliance for Progress.
Let me first go into the educational phases of the Institute Small groups of
trade unionists from Latin American countries, carefully selected by unions in these
countries and covering every country in Latin America except Cuba, Haiti and Paraguay,
are brought to the United States for an eight to twelve week intensive training course.
Our high level course in the U.S. is designed to train trade union teachers and tech-
nicians who can Lake their skills hack to their respective countries to train other
trade unionists. As a result, thousands of workers have benefitted from this training.
A typical advanced course begins with U.S. univerSity professors teaching
modern adult education?the psychology or training adults, how to use visual aids,
classroom techniques and so forth. The students then move into specialized subjects,
such as the history of the labor movement, collective bargaining, labor legislation
and social security. Just about every subject of basic interest to a modern, dynamic
labor movement is covered. The students also travel around the United States to get
a look at our free economy at work, to learn how American workers live, and to
understand better how our trade unions operate. The wages and expenses of these
students are paid for by the AI PLD here in the United States.
Over 730 young men and women from all these Latin American countries have gone
th.rough our Front, Royal, Virginia Institute where our 28th class is now in session.
Those instructed through local training courses in over twenty countries and .territories
are well over 100 thousand.
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As an example of our continually expanding interest in assisting the Latin
American labor movement to meet the challenges of ,today's complex society, three
years ago we in a specialized course in .labor economics. Each year, we sponsor
two semesiors or university level education in labor economics to young Latin American'
lonflers. The program now in session is being conducted at Georgetown University.
Following the graduation in October of this year, these young men will return as
economic advisors to their own unions.
The Social Projects Department of AIFLD came into being soon after the
Alliance for Progress program was announced by President Kennedy. There was a meeting
al the White House, and we told the President that we endorsed his concept of emphasizing
social development? along with the traditional concepts of economic aid. It was evident
10 NS that this could not be done if American aid monies were channeled solely on a
government-to-government basis. We made it clear that we would not participate in
a program that would result in the rich getting richer but with no real improvement
in the living conditions of the great masses of workers in these countries. We made
it clear to President Kennedy that we had a part to play and that some of the Alliance
for Progress funds, instead of being spent through business institutions or banks or
government, should he channeled through free trade unions for their projects to advance
their living standards.
With this in mind, we established the Social Projects Department of A1FLD
to give technical assistance to Latin American trade unions rstahlishment
of credit unions and cooperatives both in the rural and ui-ari ;I:ozis. Through these
activities AIFLD is now the largest U.S. sponsor of workers' low-cost housing in
Latin America. We have developed and implemented housing programs in twelve different
countries.
Our first big housing projects was in Mexico City--the John F. Kennedy Housing.
Project which presently houses 20 thousand people who formerly lived in the slums of
Mexico City.
This project was financed by the International Ladies' Garment Workers, the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, all unions affiliated to the AFL-CIO, by a $L0 million twenty-
year loan.? This project benefits workers who have never had any decent.housing.
It is owned by the workers and was sponsored by the Graphic Arts Union of Mexico Cil
As you well know, it is not exceptional, to find interest rates for home mortgages
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in Latin America as high as 15 or 20%. At the time this loan was made in .1964, we.
were able to sponsor this program with a 5!4% return on our investment. I want to
emphasize that these monies were provided by American workers to the Mexican union.
This was not U.S. government funding although we did receive. a 100% guaranty on
the investment from A.I.D.
Sometime ago, we broke ground for a housing project in Georgetown in Guyana,
where there is to he built 658 low-cost workers' homes costing approximately
$2.2 million., 90% of which is being loaned by American unions. The project is sponsored
by the Guyana Trade Union Council. Last month we disbursed the first $2.8 million
of a $6 million loan for low-cost housing to the unions of Venezuela. This loan is
being participated in by l5 different AFL-C10 affiliated unions. On these housing
projects the All1.1) provides all necessary technical assistance in planning and implement-
ing he program.
There is a workers' housing bank known as ASINCOOP established with the assis-
tance or AIFLD in Lima, Peru.
ASINCOOP is the fastest growing savings and loan associ-
ILion in Lima today with more than 11,000 depositors. Although it is only five years
old, it has made housing loans of approximately $5 million. This is something really
new in Latin America, workers setting up something similar to our building and loan
associations using their own money plus seed capital loans to lend out at reasonable
interst rates for housing.
We have campesino programs going on in many areas or Latin America--educational
programs, vocational training, and legal assistance as part of our wide range of
programs designed to help the under-privileged rural workers. Some of these programs
are carried out in campesino service centers which we have constructed in Colombia
And in the Northeast. of
In addition to these activities, the AFL-CIO has established an impact Projects
Program to which it has contributed $150 thousand since November 1964. The purpose of our
Impact Projects Program is to assist Latin America trade unions in the development of
stmlli projects of a socio-economic nature at the community level. Our effort takes
the form of interest-free, soft-currency loans or grants of up to $5 thousand.
Nepayments of loans form part of a revolving fund for additional projects. To date,
repayments have amounted to more than $42 thousand. This is a real grass.-roots
program involving the self-help features which lead to the genuine participation of
people in the solution of their immediate problems. For. example, workers and their
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families are involved in providing water, electricity, and sanitary facilities in.
remote areas and city slums. Trade unions have joined with their Communities in
buiI ding or refurbishing primary and secondary schools. Cooperatives of all kinds
have been formed which meet the pressing needs of less privileged, low-paid and left-.
out workers. The 1.11.-C10 Executive Council intends to continue this meaningful
worker-to-worker program.
All of this work is being done as part of our effort. to help these uniOns play '
a more vital and positive role in the economic and 'social development or their countries.
Our basic philosophy shared by our .trade union brothers in Latin America is that there
will be no real change until the great masses of working people have a greater purchasing
power upon which a modern and expanding economy can be built.
ln summary,I would like to remind the members of this Committee that our work
in Latin America has been based upon the sincere feeling of fraternity and solidarity
that exists between the workers of the U.S. and the workers to the South. We are there
by invitation to carry on a program designed to help people develop a fuller and happier
life without violating their culture and traditions. Frankly speaking, we vigorously
oppose many of the military establishments that are now in power and we are saddened
by the awful reality that the gap between the very rich and the very poor continues
to grow. However, we think that we have taken the initiative in the area or strengthen-
ing free trade unions which will enable the Latin American workers to participate
meaningfully in their own development.
think we aro on the right track, and 1 am proud of. my part in it, and 1
resent any inference from any source that the government assistance given to us in
carrying out this vital and important work is a payoff of any kind.
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families are involved in providing water, electricity, and sanitary facilities in.
remote areas and city slums. Trade unions have joined with their Communities in
buiI ding or refurbishing primary and secondary schools. Cooperatives of all kinds
have been formed which meet the pressing needs of less privileged, low-paid and left-.
out workers. The 1.11.-C10 Executive Council intends to continue this meaningful
worker-to-worker program.
All of this work is being done as part of our effort. to help these uniOns play '
a more vital and positive role in the economic and 'social development or their countries.
Our basic philosophy shared by our .trade union brothers in Latin America is that there
will be no real change until the great masses of working people have a greater purchasing
power upon which a modern and expanding economy can be built.
ln summary,I would like to remind the members of this Committee that our work
in Latin America has been based upon the sincere feeling of fraternity and solidarity
that exists between the workers of the U.S. and the workers to the South. We are there
by invitation to carry on a program designed to help people develop a fuller and happier
life without violating their culture and traditions. Frankly speaking, we vigorously
oppose many of the military establishments that are now in power and we are saddened
by the awful reality that the gap between the very rich and the very poor continues
to grow. However, we think that we have taken the initiative in the area or strengthen-
ing free trade unions which will enable the Latin American workers to participate
meaningfully in their own development.
think we aro on the right track, and 1 am proud of. my part in it, and 1
resent any inference from any source that the government assistance given to us in
carrying out this vital and important work is a payoff of any kind.
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AUL EC Statement
Chicago, Illinois
May 19, 1954
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a practical demonstration of their sincere interest in the economic as well. as
political advancement of the people by transferring the foreign .investment in
Indo-China (about $300,000,000) to the Vietnamese_ people as aid to the re-
construction of their war-ravaged land. Until such time, as a democratically-
elected national government has been established, this transferred interest'
should be held in trust'and'a'dministered by an International Commission.
representing Pakistan, Thailand, Burma, India, and the Phillipipes for the.. .
purpose of improving the working and living conditions of the people of
Indo-China.
(6) Congress should grant President Eisenhower standby authority -
to take all measures he may require for helping to train a Vietnam National ?
Army and build a Pacific Alliance for Peace and Freedom strong enough to
hasten the end of the war in Indo-China, assure its national independence,
and protect the free nations of Asia against further imperialist aggression
and expansion by the Moscow-Peiping Axis. In this connection we emphasize
that a strong united front of the democracies -- demonstrated in immediate
positive steps for collective action -- would serve to improve the prospects
of making the Soviet bloc less intransigent and thereby increase the
likelihood of reasonable armistice terms. The policy of postponing until
after the Geneva conclave, steps for attaining such collective action by
the democracies only serves to encourage Soviet aggression and utterly un-
acceptable armistice terms in Indo-China. The great task of the peaceful
and freedom-loving nations is, therefore, to mobilize military strength and
insure the strongest resistance during the Geneva negotiations and not after-
ward when a reasonable negotiated settlement would no longer be possible be-
cause of allied weakness and disunity. We must not lose sight of the fact
that, given the present disarray in the democratic camp, the Communists are
taking while the conferees are talking history provides overwhelming proof
that in dealing with totalitarian aggression -- whether it be Nazi or
Communist -- democratic weakness and wavering breed war while democratic
strength and united action blocks war. Fear of displacing the Communist warlords
during the Geneva Conference can lead only to disastrous appeasement, that is,
to aggravating still more gravely the danger of a world conflagration.
(7) Finally, we appeal to our government to impress strongly upon ?
France and Britain the urgency of learning from the costly experience in
Indo-China. Let our allies act now to break with their colonialist policies
and practices -- especially in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia -- before the
Communist agents of Soviet imperialism come into these crucial areas in full
force to distort and destroy the national and democratic aspirations of these
peoples. Once these peoples have gained their full national. independence, '
equality and democracy, they will have something really worthwhile to fight
for and become our loyal allies in preventing another world war, preserving
peace, and promoting freedom and social and economic progress.
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AMERICAN 1NSTITCTE FOh FhEE LABOR DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATE, FOLNDATION, AND INDIVIDUAL. CONTRIBUTORS
1062 - 1968
h. Grace", Company
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund
international Telephone and Telegraph'
Pan American llorld Airways
The United Corporation
David Rockefeller
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Standard Oil Co. of New jersey
Koppers Company
Gilletie
Shell Petroleum
Crown Zelleback
The Anaconda Company
ACFE (Venezuela)
King Ranch
Sterling Drug, Inc.
General Foods Corporation
Loeb Rhoades r. Company
National Biscuit Company
owenf; - Illinois Glass
Onion Carhide Corporation
Ebasco Industries
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.,ottlhern Pern Copper Corporation
Merck
PCizer Iniernational
CI is. Company
Industrias Kaiser Argentina
American Cyanamid
First National City Ran!:".
InJernalionai Paper Company
Mob if Oil Company
-Itandard Fruit Company
American Telephone 1 Telegraph
Corn Products
Council for Latin America
Johnson / Johnson
tiI , Regis Paper Company
American Can Company
Rrazilian Light /; Power
First National P,ank Of los ton
Pnited Fruit Company
Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate Corporation
I CM World Trade Corporaiion
International hasic Economy Corporation
';inclair Oil
'?Max Ascoli Fund Inc.
internntional Mining Corporation
Carrier Corporation
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Coca-Cola Export Corporation
-Container Corporation of America
Stauffer Chemical Company
American - Standard
I nternational Packers
Olin
Standard Oil of California
Narner Lambert .
Corning Glass
Eli Lilly C, Company
J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation
United Shoe Machinery
Celanese Corporation
? Bacardi Corporation
Schering Foundation
Bankers Trust Company
Bristol Myers
Chase Manhattan Bonk
Kimberly - Clark
Upjohn Company
Insurance Company of North America
3M Company
American International Oil Company
Combustion Engineering
Sheraton Corporation of America
Chemetron Corporation
Motion Picture Association of America
Oeltec
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nese:king ',reletion?ship
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yolt si1ultaneces-
7\77,7 ,17: c17: ly se eeacci Vietnam policica"
{
L. al U"ainel!s. ridlculoua arsd corn-
a ai a
? -.Cr.za,`? Mr. Meany re7
0 has cheesed these
u inane:Lae ovely ate:, of the
L away there'a hardly a week
that aar auditora haven't been
as.o
hi can- fficcs."-
..,, :Accuses Sienater c- eui
?Sicassafor Fur:night quoted
in Charging Aid 'Payoff from what he said was a con-
fidential report by the General
Accounting Office complaining
By DELAITZ of a lack of control by the aid
speati t TZLe New 'i vii - agency over disbursements
made to the Latin-American WASHINGTON, Aug, I?.
aquae. It said: "Under present
in-
Senator. J. W. Fulinagat and
arrangements A.I.F.L.D. has
George Meany exchanged yen
a
bal brickbats for nearly th virtuallyfreeree thing it wants."hand to do any-
hours today, but neither was Tar. Meany shot 'back: "If
hit and they parted with A.I.D. Is not doing a proper
. handshake. audit sob, don't blame me for it.
Mr. Meany, president of the Or are you suggesting that
afald
'American Federal of Isnot e to audit our
programs because.. of some tre-
and Congress of Industrial racist:olio influence we have
ganizations, accused Senatoa vial:al the Administration? Any-
Fulbright, an Arkansas Derao- way,-X Can't think the G.A.O.
crat, of a "gratuitous iriettit to cen easinnantiato itg statement
aael den' S believe that AID.the American labor moverneat"
woula: accern It"
in charging that $33-million in,
lacle of Covers:anent
contract payments to the labor. The committee chairman
organization was a "PaYa:;" eventeselly defined the basic
for its support of the Vietnam question of the hearing ea one
policies of the Kennedy-John-. of clatenniaing "whether It was
son Administrations. propaz or tile United States
Government rto
Senator Fulbright, who is: provide money
to any private organization to
chairman of the Senate Fenian: go out and Influence foreign
Relations Committee, accused governments and their parlia-
Mr. Meany of "rudeness" and raenta"
suggested he was a 'loud- "That's: not true and you
know it," rear. Meany retorted,
mouth." As the Senator put
"and. ,y
"You can shout louder than I ou can't document it."
can, but please do me the cour- out the money is used to carry fel-clan policy of the
tesy of waiting until I've, fin- United Ste as Government," he
ished a sentence before break- added. 'We lielieve that free
lag In." trade unions are a guarantee of
a free .society arid that free
Denies Johnson laole societies are in the interest of
Mr. Fulbright's remark about the Uoitea Sti?aes, enpeclally in
Mr. Meany's vocal powers the Western Eemisp;nere.
?
came after the labor loader "When the Communists want
to take, over a country they
roared: "You once supported
don't bothcr with the banks or
the Administration's Viataartt businees and industry. They
policies. Did you get a paycf21try to infiltrate and take over
for supporting the Tophin Gulf the free ti-aAo unions. That's
the way they worked in Prague
resolution? I don't think you
in Ina3. It's the way they tried
did. But neither do I think you to work it in Italy and France."
should suggest any payoff to. "n'altiaont? a Dime"
us for promoting thaafcee, trade '"We fought them then with-
movement . in, .Latin America, out a dime of help from this
Africa or Apsa.
. ? ? Government. And if the Govern-
malt of the United States with,
"There- notlairn s at allata
draws nit of asistance th us
suggest that Lyndon Johnson we'll still carry on tiae work in
ever said. or suggested, '1,c0.7a ..e.
George, you hann by ug'oil
Vietnam and we'll pay for this T...atin Arra:Tina naci wherever
boondoggle of yours in Latin we 'hove ,yci:raa,s.."
America:" ? i;enato:son2,ht to
Senator Fulbright made his estnblisli ii"o:n newspaper ar-
tidos thet?eraduates of a trade
"payoff" charge at a July union school conducted by the
meeting of the committee while labor ornanization at Front
Secretary of State William P. Royal, Va., had participated in
Rogers was testifying in sup- the overthrow of the regime
? port of the Administration's of Joao Golaart in Brazil in
$2.6-billion foreign aid request. 34. The inannaca, was that
The payments were made by the school we:; teaching revo-
lutionary activities.
"V.Ie're inc-rested only in
building effective free trade ,
unions in free moieties," Mr,
Tv'leany reDlieX!. "CZ our
'tee ten:.:
Asian-American Free Labe: ena Jag eraser asaaesseaa arid ('ac-
stitute, all creatures of the.11T;toritzl reghnae and decide to
A.F.L.-C.I.O. The Latin-areeri-Ido so=thin-j about 'it, that's
can institute, the oldest of the their business." ?
you might even say
that it weilicin't cache you too
unhappy if they should help
Senator Futbrieht CODcCcc;1,1unt;eat 1;11ch suggest-
that "perhaps the terra payoH ed Senator CilLord P. Case,
was too strong and with-, Republican of New Jersey. ? ?
draw it if it is ? although I "No, it would not," was. the
think it amounts to the same ;labor leader's blunt reply.
thing."
The Agency for International
Development under contracts
with the American Institute or
Free Labor Developraent in
Latin America, the African-
American Labor Center end the
three, received $28-million of
the $33-million total
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-c,naoLty Iabor's Latin aft:, pr4.;;;I;;;',1-!,,
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Senke'
raiwous :7 .31/7-,q1'94;'
sTiouti n g WhiT tha
thin- and the ,Arkansas'flec?
cyst accusing eacir' ?cf
rudemss, ? ,
hope you don't: 'tra...11;
your associates with the r..,(t-,?.-,you
ness .yOu're treating me,"
brighZ told . the , fur.-s!,,r;
plumber who his
over, .nation's ?
tioi: for 15 yeat?s.. ? ? .711.1` . lcia? up:.:et
came here to deal than
rude remarks," Meany shot I statement f.c.,y Len. CIL'torti P.
back at the usually soft-spoken Case, (R-N.,T.) Lugge3tin.i, that
committee chairman.
'
cf2 hut
m2t.lhout me," Fu]-
"but , it
;-dttmtion.
"Payoff" Charges
It all traced back several
weeks to a foreign-aid hearing'
when Fulbright suggested that 1!
government support for the
AFL-CIO's Institute for Freei
Labor Development in Latin 11
America "represented t ,c
price' -Vic ?pai,c1", for
'StatmCi backing for.
'Cies in':Vietnain. ? 1. ,
..Coiling this a , gratuitour;
the' 'Arneric,an
movement,
'theitutif,-;10.weriz. in ccliva-!,,
tonal ntid:soci`al programs .ind
'..said;., "I] resent , any .interf,eit?
.ence 'from any source that the
? government assistance given
' to us .in carrying out this vital
;andt :-,,Y_?ertant 7).f..7.,
?,.
'payof$
atItie,l
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lion
in v.". ;.ff.9
1.orktin
"To do. oil 'y
.,11f."1 ?! been, :
tel sm)ervislon.. '
Fu19rigitt: forn(i,c0(1,
ments of V
Viettlaril
son '
and ;3.1tei tbe'
mentet.1:111,3
G XI)." .r
ono of Ihe _'c' '1
cs,
tee, at,
itcre
sdniteu:
grant' at`:,..iid PrivatO
tie:.; ill:117 cnvrta I c c,
111nr rovernmel',t 'midt 11
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t7;l1 have fo.
ecicl?, later whether to
nrove incer ion In the ,roYelfT,a
8orne. 3.7 million rof the
pin.q $1.04 million ...%or
the AFL-CIO's African-Amen-
can Labor Center and $350,000
for its Asian-American Fri.:a
Labor Institute. .
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