AFL-CIO COUNCIL DENOUNCES DEFAMING OF TRAINING UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460029-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

AUG 2 3 1966
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hicago, Aug. 22-The AFL-CIO the institute was being use in'
e. ecutive council today co- this manner during a press inter-
n( unccd accusations that the view at the UAW convention in
A crican institute of Free Labor Long Beach, Cal., last May. Sub
D velopment was infiltrated by sequently, the AFL-CIO called for
tl Central Intelligence Agency an investigation to "clear the,
a d served as a front for the De- air."
p rtment of State. Vote- Is 23 To 2
his "villificaLion" included, a A lengthy report on the matter
c arge that the AIFLD was being was presented today by Beirne to
u ed to foment revolutions in La- the council, which voted 23 to 2 to
t i America, George Meany, accept the report. Walter Reuther
L-CIO president, revealed. and Joseph Curran, president of
he institute, a training school the National Maritime Union, vot-
;f r labor leaders from Latin ed negatively. ? Jakob Potofsky,
American nations, is jointly spon- president of the, Amalgamated
red by the AFL-CIO, American Clothing Workeis, abstained.
i1 dustry with Latin 'American Presumably Walter lteulher
t es, and the Agency for Interna- would not vote against his broth.
;t onal Development of ? the State er, regardless of hgw he might
eparlment. feel. Wailer Reuther has not'been
Now located at Front. Royal, in agreement with the AFL-CIO'
a., it trains from 20 to 45 labor foreign policy in a number o
l aders every,three months. areas. He and George Meant'
An investigation of the institute AFIf-CIO president, had a sever
as conducted goy Joseph A. falling-out in June over a walkout
eirne, a council vice president at the International Labor, Organ
nd president of the Communica- ization session in Geneva,! Switz
pns Workers, of America,. after erland.
no be
? e- CIA infiltration charge was Curran said he; voted o
president,
urled by Victor Reuther, direr- cause Peter Grace,
r of the Department of Interna- W. R. Grace & Co., owners of ih ;
Tonal Affairs of the United Auto Grace Lines, was the manage
Yorkers. . mont head of the institute and he,
Reuther, , brother of' - Walter often negotiated with the Grad
euther, UAW, president, ,charged Line:. ' ... t :;::;4 .... ,;t,, -;,,,..?H,D.B.:?
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