THREAT OF LABOR SPLIT LAID TO CIA CASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460017-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: February 23, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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.~iy Drew PearsonL and
sue reason v. ry re bean
'L CIO lai:or combine is o
he verge of breaking up i
:: use of Central Intelligent
: aaey secretly pumped hit
is "In to notional Affairs Do
tment."
;'residc?t George lieany ha
denied imat the AFL-CIO re
ceives CIA money; but it does
%u'thermore, p a r t of t h e
:;Toney is used to follow for
?'rat of President Johnson:
Backstage story of the CI
battle inside the labor federa
Lion goes back to May 22, whe
Victor Reuther, brother of th
president of the United Auto
mobile Workers and head o
he Auto Workers' Interna-
tional Affairs Department
charged that Central Intelli
Bence mosey was "involved"
in the Air L-CIO.
Victor stated that AFL for
cign affairs activities "are
vest-pocket operation 'run b
J. Lovestone . who seem.
to have brought into the labor
.movement the working habit
a n d undercover technique
which he learned when he wa
in the highest echelons of the
Communist Party. I guess it'
,awfully hard to break thos
ha bits:"
AFL supporters of Loveston
immediately saw red, especial
:y Joe Beirne, head of the
Communications Workers.
Beirne wrote a letter to Mean
'demanding that Victor Reuther
the matter to the next AFL-
CIO Executive Council, and
time Union, opposing it. Invents and leaning more to-
? Meanwhile, Joe Beirne had ward the type of trade union-
Victor, countered by asking
for a review of all the .lieany-
Lovestone foreign policies dur.
ing recent years, which in-
eluded opposition to cultural
exchanges with East European
Communist countries and op-
position to trade with Russia,
ReiltLer Is Slapped
At this point it looked as if
there might be a bitter cat-
nd-dog fight between power-
ul labor executives just on
he eve of a ? congressional
lection 'in which united labor
upport was needed for the
re-election of liberal Congress.
men.
So Walter Reuther-report-
dly at the suggestion of the
Vhite House - approached
Ieany with a proposition that
he review of AFL-CIO for-
ign policy be postponed until
fter the November election.
%leany agreed. He told Reuth-
r to propose such a resolu-
ion at the upcoming Execu-
ive Council meeting. "I, will,
econd it," he said.
But at the meeting, held
tug. 22, Jay Lovestone pro-
osed a surprise resolution
vhich endorsed Meany's en-
ire foreign policy for the
os-twar years.
The. vote on the Lovestone
esolution was 21 to 2, with
my Walter Reuther and Joe
ccutive Council attempting to However, llcany called a
slap down Victor Reuther's meeting April 8,-1963, after
criticism of CIA funds. the 1LO had elected a Polish
Beirne particularly defend- Communist as president, and
ed the American institute for recommended that the United
(Free Labor Development) States not send a delegation
(AIFLD), which has spent tensito the 1LO that year. Carey
of millions of dollars in Latin
America, most of it from the
,CIA since it receives only
about $200,000 annually from
the AFL CIO and about
$280,000 from business execu.
tives such as Peter Grace of
the Grape steamship lines.,
Mcany Gets Slapped
Earlier, Mieany had. tried to
withdraw American support
from the International Labor
Office because the ILO, with
headquarters in Geneva, had
elected a Polish president-a
Communist.
The International Labor Of-
fice is the oldest international
organization, h a v i'n g been
started by the League of Na-
tions 20 years before the
founding of the United Na-
tions. For many years Commu-
nist nations boycotted it, but
they affiliated in 1945 when
the U.N. was created. It' has
been the 'opinion of. David
Morse, head of the U.S, dele-
gation to the ILO, and of Jim
Carey, former head 'of the
U nit e d Electrical Workers,
that the Communist l a b o r
vigorously disagreed.
In a'showdown vote Carey,
won; one . of the few times
illeany has been overruled.
One of the gripes which the
Reuther brothers have against
the lieany-Lovestone-CIA for-
eign policy is that they swing
their weight behind dictator-
ships in Latin America and use
CIA funds to do so.
In the Dominican Republic,
lieany was 'dead t~pppsed to
President Juan Bosch, and it
was AFL-CIO confederates,
backed by CIA money either
directly or indirectly, who
helped to oust Bosch.
Later, during the 1966 elec-
tion, , Mcany and Lovestone
again swung their influence,
backed by CIA money, to de-'
feat Bosch.
In Brazil, AFL-CIO agents,
backed by CIA money, helped'
overthrow President J o a o
Goulart in' 1964.
? 1964. Dell-TlcCiura BYniHcate. Inc.
Drew Pearson will predict
what the House will do Olt.
congressional ethic, as a re-
suit of the Powell case at
.6.40 p.m, today 'over Radio
.
unions were becoming morel-
WT,OP,, ~; a r,
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