Walther Schevenels Papers, 1901-1986

World Federation of Trade Unions.

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Founded October 1945 during the International Trade Union Congress in Paris; the delegates, including representatives of the American Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Soviet trade unions, agreed to set up a new world federation replacing the old International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) and the Red International of Labour Unions (PROFINTERN, 1920-1934), as result of the desire for unity, peace and progress after the Second World War; the development of the cold war and th...

Schevenels, Walther, 1894-1966

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 1894 November 11 Born, Belgium 1921 1924 Secretary, Federation of Metalworkers, Antwerp, Belgium 1924 General Secretary, Provincial Federation of Metalworkers, Antwerp ...

International Federation of Trade Unions

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Labour and Socialist International

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Founded in 1923 by the member parties of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI, 1921-1923) and the International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP) at the Hamburg International Socialist Congress; the Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale/Labour and Socialist International (SAI/LSI) reunited the social democratic parties with the exception of the left wing of the pre-war International now organized in the COMINTERN; as a reaction to the collapse of the Second International in 1914...

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

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