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• Document Release Date: March 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 13, 1962
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CPYRGHT
IF ALGERIA gains. Hsi Indeptiad- or
enc, a wave of anti-American fill-
ing may sweep France. The French
are a proud people and even these
who are undisturbed over losing
Algeria do not welcome our couri-
L-y's interference in French do-
mestic affairs in the name bfi.end-?
big what it , considers to be .40;
lonialism.
The guiding hand of U.S, foreign
policy in the Algesian situation hai.
been the AFL-CIO. As far -back as
July 1957 Walter Reuther and
George Meany announced .at the
fifth congress of the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions
held in Tunis that Arnerican.labor
\kw: behind tO Algerian rebels and
that France must be forced to
grant Algerian independence. .
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TII1S GAVE a thood transfusion
to the Force Liberation Nationale
FLN the. Moslem terrorist or-
panizetion then defeated on the
battlefield and unable to whip. the
Algerian masses into any sem-
blance of popular . support. The
then Sen. John F. Kennedy en-
dorsed AFL-CIO action to support
the retts a few days later..
Words were translated into
litical and financial backing by
Irving Brown, delegate of the AFL-
CIO Congress, who helped set up
an Algerian nationalist named
',lessen Hadj to form an Algerian
ttnion as a tabor wing to win Amer--
toan support for Hadj'a Movement
tor the Triumph of Democratie
Liberties. Brown christened the
gr.)tip, The Syndicate Union of
Algerian Workers" IUSTA) and
1.1Kr under his identity as a tub-
itittie member ot the Executive
it,ard of the International Conied-
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hie qn let Rrawn'work
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berlibb...?1144,1; .t I
In September 19141, = Willer
Un1011.-Vine.*T11M to thgl Zila
Meacteat. secretary of
Sara neediest conferenor=
clilAtUortir:tahighly 0 tab.
chattel." - '
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FINALLY, Robert
ti?esdiBrown al nf Maeda:
gove
gotta asan und, -
able alittn.,Brown.called COSte a
dictitbrV,but taelstkireplied'Ibit
BrovaL was pursuing !?
policy ettiltikdatliotti versons ftbe
purpose of financing anti-French
movernenbr:in Algeria and Mirth
Africa. ? ?
? From his Paris ? heanottariate
Brown'tantinues tbsake *Bernie'
for America. On Dec. 4, 1139:Na?
tion Pranoalae wrote; ' g
Brown OUthe Interisationaled;
eration of -Pre. Trade Unlans 'On
Of Amerkad Imperialient haft idst
Written n. check fari:$10,000 Pent to
Geneva for. 'U.G. TA. Un lett 'Gen-
trine dcTritvailletirs Mork the
irtN -union dominated by the
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om-
AccOrdiflg' tegilaire dii Hat4ef;
Paris earreiporident 'H. di( 11
Report. .in' Huntington,.
Ind., "The American emliaiay In
part", gave WACO a year to an or-
gantitiatiait tailed FBANCE.OSA; 34'
Rutii.`riighne Flachat, Paris, 17.
whthlt publishes pamphlets -for
itlirn and serves as- a polit-
ical link between France's unfon,,
Force Ourriere and American
uniefis." ?
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DU BERRIER SAID he asked s.
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ifbart`pou are nil the t
Int ever the AlgetianAttentias??"?
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,abcepterasi by,tha `Uteri- ?
can ptbl1c.for the.4L.Or .114 .
In
Algerian studeolE. so.?
laded by the Aaniria [Wog of 41-
garion Student were given scholar- ,
ships In American universities and
* our State Department and by
the National StuclaaW Msociation, ,4
Unmentioned was the fact that the ,
Frondi government bad, outlawed
the General Union of Algerian Stu.
dents as a ComMuniet orgattization
The American people were only .
told they were traveling on Moroc, ,
can and Tunisian passports am
that the planes carrying them bat. t.
been especially routed by our State
Department so as not to touch
French soil.
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IF ANY l'U'I'VRE congressional
Committee seeks to assign blarn' CPYRGHT
for Europe's lack of confidence It
Ameakan leadership or the corr.
munization of former Western co -
?
?Met, all they need do Is read the
speech of May 29..961, by G. Mete
nen Williams, undersecretary of
state for African affnirt,Willietn;'
speech, distributed titre t
the United States,' a kut Serv,
Ice bffIces AfrIca, mare
the lai,or iobby's Arnerifan foreign
policy o?cial. Hp saLl:
"Our unions bave given 'bo h
moral and material support to U e
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tyoung African unions in their Si
ght, either directly or through
International Confederation of Frk?
Trade Unions."
No wonder there are anti A" ?
_on riots Outside our USIS
10 Africa. In the end ore rITt
only be hated b or tui
allies bitt by the natives of ?
Western colonies whtt fah1--
Soviet Russian cor11:i
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HT CPYRGHT
Mows Holdup of $200,000 Cheek
Perils, Anti-Red Confederation
By ternarri D.
' Kluft
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A -Tie h.,- 1,1t)\%
irchtess the it tore or he nce'l
t'nuii us 01.!ct 10b 1 ftder
E0011,.
Nt fate is the ma tiff activ;ty
ot the iftei national Confpdera
tion of Free 'rrade Unions It
o :i;-11illion ciolbir ale r.
er,:tu for ui ;ens
rind Lath A erii a
'te er?ii- .1hc t.P.
1.litnt tirge s
sat i:laction i 11 tie 'el
1(2i7TU rat, I. Mean
11,1,1 up , \ PI Ca) '
for neut. j,e 41,1 a
due the Tail on iXt.
Matter of.Dispote
The cause
a matter fl
tween Moais,? rt4s 1t1
supporters el Natter .icutl.e
president of tile
Workers ano perennial opp
?nent of Mean s internation
policies.
Meiny's is, ay ;net t
ICFTLI has been _lug
feet on a 'promised
staff reorAanizati
campCharge., tha
unhappy because
fedceistion,::
his nominee fur ti
the ICF'f'U.
.One point, howet
Whether the IC:FT
more than' a'pap(
depends heayilY ,irt
here Jan. 21 OW.
officers and All
? Executive Conti.
At uniteo 6,4
enee, 410 tt.,frisi
chose' a new 'lead
as part 'of rwb
ganizations Outer
glum was solecte
secretary. .
The ICC1.1 , 1.1 tr. .?t
.1 need
B euthe
Meany
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:.(nottries Tenative plans were.eommittee? Meany. Reuther:
nade to raist. $10 million over!and four others? would meet
three ytar?-. The most impor-Jater. this month with Becu
ant contrihution would he $3 land ICFTU President .1rne
f) S4 nullkin front the AFL- Geijer ? of Sweden. The meet-
() ling Itpd been requested by
Last month, at, the ICFTU'sjOeiier. but Meany As said to
executive board meeting in be skeptical on the. value of
Brussels, Meany complained further talks.
that the organization nad noti
I The 1CFTU was founded in
qarted to revamp the rest of
its staff and the aid-Africa, 1940 as a counter to the Corn-
program especially was suffer-I munist-led World Federation
mg
of Trade Unions. ICFTU's af-
Backed Irving Brown 'filiates number more than 100.
i le also demanded to know union centers with 56 million
win pposed hi- choice of members in 75 countries. ,e4t
Irving Brow 11, AFL.CIO,c
European representative, for
one of the four assistant gen-
eral secretary posts newly
created in June.-
s supporters say he
m.ithheld the six-figure check'
ionly because he wanted to ear,
;mark it for specific p-ojects,
!largely in Africa.
But.Reuther's aides contend ?
Ihe stopped it because of the
opposition to Brown. They say
!Brown is unwanted by some
s-European? unionists who view
S him as an operative of the
-iCentral Intelligence Agency
ti and not as an independent
ninnionist.
An argument over 1CFTU .
:Iflared up at the closi'd meet-
clings of AFL-CIO leaders here .?
P:last . week. Meany reportedly
said that the would just as
)PIsoon pull out and give AFL-
's: CEO aid directly to unions,
abroad. However, he was said
to have added that complete
up!withdrawal from the ICFTU?
ne was not possibie.
,n-? Reuther reportedly replied
el:that a unilateral aid program
rat' ould destroy the !CFTC: and
it..k would gladden only the
Sin it Union and its World
to- Federation of Trade Unions.
1.,,r The AFL-C10 leaders then
1,-ed agreed that their executive
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