Correspondence Files

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Correspondence Files

1953-1970

This series primarily consists of correspondence but also includes telegrams, reports, and memorandums relating to labor and manpower in Lebanon. There is information on wages, hours, and working conditions in Lebanon; activities of organized labor; healthcare benefits for workers; strikes by organized labor; workmen compensation rules; employment policies of select industries; opportunities of skilled and unskilled workers; training for employees; statistics on unemployment; conditions in factories and workplaces; cost of living increases; discrimination in the workplace; proposed labor legislation; candidates running for union positions; hiring practices of companies; job-related accidents and hazards; and international conferences on the rights of workers.

1 linear foot, 4 linear inches

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11638816

National Archives at College Park

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United States Embassy (Lebanon)

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The U.S. Legation to Lebanon in Beirut was raised to embassy status August 27, 1952 and envoy Harold B. Minor was promoted to ambassador. Ambassador Minor was succeeded by Raymond A. Hare, September 29, 1953; Donald R. Heath, March 9, 1955; Robert McClintock, January 15, 1958; Armin H. Meyer, January 12, 1952; Dwight J. Porter, June 22, 1965; William B. Buffum, October 13, 1970; and G. McMurtrie Godley, March 15, 1974. Francis E. Meloy, Jr., was appointed Ambassador on May 1, 1976, and procee...