AFL-CIO USES INSTITUTE TO OVERTHROW REGIMES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100810001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 4, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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October 4, 1965
AFL-CIO USES INSTITUTE TO OVERTHROW REGIMES
! Moscow in Spanish to Latin America 0130 ONT 4 October 1965--L
(Radio Peace and Progress anonymous commentary: "A Center for the Preparation of.
Strikebreakers in Latin America") .
(Text) In Washington on the fourth floor of the marble palace of AFL-CIO, which
incidentally is situated in front of the White House, is the office of Jay
Lovestone, leader of the international section of the AFL-CIO. A renegade and an
obdurate enemy of communism, he heads a group of people who, following the orders
of AFL-CIO President George Meany, are fighting all over the world against
communist influence in the trade union movement.
Close to the marble place is situated a building which houses the beloved
creation of Meany and Lovestone--the American Institute for Development of Free
Trade Unions. The resolution setting up the institute was approved in 1962 and
its first trainees were enrolled in July of the same year. But what is this
insitute? What has it been set up for? Getting acquainted with its activities,
we come across a singular characteristic.
Among its leaders there are not only trade unionist, but also representatives of .
those same corporations against which many Latin American trade unions are fighting:
Thus, the president of the institute is George Meany, and the president of the
so-called institute's council if Peter Gray of U.R. Grays & Co. In Latin
America this Yankee monopoly owns shipping companies, sugar plantations, sugar
refineries, textile mills, 'and other enterprises. The vice president of the
institute's council is (name indistinct), protege of the oil magnate Nelson Rock.
feller. Among the directors are Charles (?Brinkerhoe), president of Anaconda,
Juan Trippe, president of PAA, William Hickey of the United Corporation, and
others. The fact that such persons are on the board of the institute shows that
its objectives are very far from a genuine trade union struggle, a struggle for
workers rights to which the trade unionists trained at the institute should
devote themselves.
In planning course programs and in selection of trainees, anticommuniam is the
criterion. Apart from studies purely in trade union work, classes are given on
the U.S. Government system, on questions of American trade union policies, on the
question of anticommunist struggle in Latin America, and other topics. Analyzing
the syllabus of the institute, even the American magazine NATION expressed doubts
as to how Latin American activists armed with such knowledge would be able to
carry out their revolution against the oligarchy.
Obviously, communist trade union leaders cannot joint this school. According
to Serafino Romualdi, a leading figure in the institute, all those who consider
themselves to the left vis-a-vis the ruling party in Venezuela, the Democratic
Action Party, or the APRA in Peru, will also not be admitted to the institute.
The anticommunism of the leaders of these two parties, as is known, is not a secret
to anyone. The fervor of the institute's directors reached suoh a point that at '41'
the beginning, representatives of Christian trade unions were not admitted.
.The institute operates 14 training centers in Latin America.wheremore than 20,000,0
people have been trained, and 317 have taken their courses in Washington. Xn the
fight against the progressive labor movement, the institute's graduates use any
method to achieve their chief objective, Which has been placed before them by
Continued.
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