Walther Schevenels papers, 1901-1967.

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Walther Schevenels papers, 1901-1967.

Correspondence, reports, speeches, writings, notes, bulletins, interviews, pamphlets, clippings, and printed matter, relating to European and international trade unions, the labor movement in Europe, communism in the labor movement, and the post-World War II European Recovery Program.

19 ms. boxes, 1 card file box.

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International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

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Schevenels, Walther, 1894-

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Belgian trade union official; general secretary, International Federation of Trade Unions, 1930-1945; assistant general secretary, World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1949; general secretary, European Regional Organization, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1951-1966. From the description of Walther Schevenels papers, 1901-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870833 ...

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...

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 Federation of Trade Unions

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