The AFL-CIO's Secret War:Solidarity Or Sabotage with Kim Scipes

The AFL-CIO's Secret War:Solidarity Or Sabotage with Kim Scipes
http://blip.tv/file/3574730
Professor and Labor Activist Kim Scipes talks about his now book The AFL-CIO's Secret War On Developing Country Workers: Solidarity Or Sabotage.
The interview was conducted in Detroit on April 27, 2010.
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YouTube - The Making of the CIA Documentary Film: On Company Business & The AFL-CIO
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Speeches of George Meany and officers of the AFL-CIO International Operations
thefilmarchive — October 06, 2009 — George Meany (August 16, 1894 - January 10, 1980) was an American labor leader, who served as President of the American Federation of Labor from 1952 to 1955, and then, following its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the latter year, as president of the united AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979. He was born and raised on City Island, Bronx and used to own a house there.

Meany got his start as a plumber as an apprentice under Francis A. Taylor and eventually joined the New York City's Plumber's Union and served as a business agent for Local 463. After that, he was elected president of the New York State Federation of Labor and served until 1939. He served on the National Labor Relations Board during World War II.

Meany was a great believer in the cooperation of labor and capital. Under his leadership, the AFL and then the AFL-CIO supported anticommunist policies. Unions deemed leftist, including the United Electrical Workers and the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America, were expelled from the CIO by the early 1950s. AFL-CIO unions then cooperated with employers to raid and decertify leftist unions. He was a steadfast supporter of the Vietnam War.

Meany was close to Jay Lovestone, the former Communist Party USA leader turned anti-communist. Lovestone established the Free Trade Union Committee (now known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity) as the overseas organizing tool of the AFL. Throughout Meany's tenure, Lovestone worked to establish non-communist and pro-American unions around the world. In the course of this work, the AFL collaborated with Latin American dictatorships against communist, radical, or opposition trade unions.

He is famous for having said toward the end of his tenure that he had "never walked a picket line in his life." He was succeeded by Lane Kirkland.

George Meany appears on the sixth season of The Simpsons in the episode Bart of Darkness. He was interviewed by Krusty the Klown on an episode of "Klassic Krusty."

Victor G. Reuther (January 1, 1912 - June 3, 2004) was a prominent international labor organizer. Along with brothers Walter Reuther and Roy Reuther, he helped make the labor movement a powerful force in the lives of millions of working people around the world. His older brother Walter became the president of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and Victor became the head of that union's Education Dept. and an organizer on the international level. Throughout his life Victor strived for the betterment and the continuing education of the working classes and as a powerful advocate of social democracy.

A.J. Langguth (born Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 11, 1933) is an American author, journalist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the University of Southern California. Langguth is the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master Saki, and lively histories of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Vietnam War, the political life of Julius Caesar and U.S. involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College (MA, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times during the Vietnam war, and wrote and reported for Look Magazine in Washington, DC and The Valley Times in Los Angeles, California. Langguth joined the journalism faculty at USC in 1976. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1975, and received the The Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001. He retired from active teaching at USC in 2003.

Langguth lives in Los Angeles. As of 2009 he was completing a historical treatment of Andrew Jackson and the "Trail of Tears" forced relocation of the Native Americans, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2010.

Published Works * "Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence" (2006) * "Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975" (2000) * "A Noise of War: Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome" (1994) * "Patriots, The Men Who Started the American Revolution" (1988) * "Saki, A Life of Hector Hugh Munro" (1981) * "Hidden Terrors" (1978) * "Macumba, White and Black Magic in Brazil" (1975) * "Marksman" (fiction) (1974) * "Wedlock" (fiction) (1972) * "Jesus Christs" (fiction) (1968)