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Title: Jay B. Krane Collection Genre: Papers Dates: 1948‑1961 Size : 8.5 linear feet, 17 Manuscript Boxes ID #: 614 OCLC:
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The papers of Jay B. Krane were
placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in 1973 by Mrs. Jay Krane.
Jay Krane was born in New York City on April 10, 1923. After a
public school education, Mr. Krane attended Columbia College where he edited
the daily student paper, receiving his B.A. in 1943. During World War II he
worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
at various assignments in Washington, London, at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters,
Allied Expeditionary Force) headquarters in Versailles, and Germany. The final
position he held was Chief of the Reports and Statistics Division of the
UNRRA Displaced Persons Programme in Europe. In 1946 Mr. Krane returned to
Columbia University to the School of International Affairs and the Russian
Institute where he matriculated until 1948. From August of that year through
May 1950 he worked in Paris as the assistant to Elmer Cope, CIO Representative
in Europe. During the six months prior to the January 1949 split in the World
Federation of Trade Unions, he served on assignment in the WFTU Secretariat. In
June 1950 Krane accepted the position as Chief of Service of the Regional
Activities Section of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU). When the Section was restructured as the Organization Department in
1956, Krane was made Assistant Director of Organization, in which capacity he
served until March 1961.
The papers of Jay Krane reflect his work with the CIO and ICFTU.
But to a greater degree, they reflect the activities and structure of the organizations
for which he worked.
The
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was established in London in
November 1949 following the withdrawal from the World Federation of Trade
Unions of Britain, the Netherlands and the CIO. The WFTU, whose membership
included the Soviet Union and Nations of Eastern Europe, was criticized as a
communist tool to undercut European economic recovery when the body acted in
opposition to the Marshall Plan.
As
a result of the split fifty‑one countries including 67 affiliates and 48
million members joined the new organization whose stated goal was to promote
free and democratic trade unionism world‑wide.
The
following outlines the administrative structure of ICFTU and such changes as
were made during Jay Krane's tenure. The organization's constitution provides
that ICFTU be governed by biennial Congresses, delegates elected from
affiliate organizations. In years between Congresses a General Council
was to meet, but after disappointing participation at the first General Council
in 1952, it was replaced with the Consultative Council consisting of the
executive board and representatives of the regional organizations and
International Trade Secretariats.
The
Congress elects an Executive Board of twenty‑five members
nominated by area which meets not less than twice a year. Eight members of the
Executive Board, the President and General Secretary compose the SubCommittee,
known as the Emergency Committee through 1955, which meets in questions
of urgency arising between Executive Board meetings. The Finance Sub‑Committee
is also part of the Executive Committee.
The
International Solidarity Fund Committee, one of ICFTU's standing
committees, was formed in June 1956 to carry out relief and organizing work.
Its' seven members include the General Secretary and Director of Organization.
The Regional Activities Fund was set up in 1951 to undertake large
scale organization activities, subsidized in part by a voluntary fund. The
committee was to be composed of representatives of the donors. At the Vienna
Congress in 1955 the RAFC was disbanded and the voluntary fund abolished in
favor of levying financially strong affiliates at the rate of one U.S. cent per
member.
In
1959 there were nineteen International Trade Secretariats associated with
ICFTU, autonomous but following general ICFTU policy. The ITS Liaison
Committee was formed in 1952 to coordinate efforts and facilitate
communication.
The
Milan Congress of 1951 decided to embark on large scale organizational
activities. As the result of increased work volume the Organization
Department was created in 1955 and in June 1956 Charles H. Millard accepted
the post of Director of Organization. Within the Organization Department are
four regional organizations. The Asian Regional Organization (ARO),
established in 1951, has its headquarters in New Delhi with sub‑offices
in Singapore, Djakarta, Tokyo, Bankok and Bombay. The Inter‑American
Regional Organization of Workers (ORIT), 1951, maintains its headquarters
in Mexico City with sub‑offices in Santiago and Rio de Janeiro. The Caribbean
Area Division of ORIT (CADORIT) operates out of Port‑of‑Spain,
Trinidad. The European Regional Organization (ERO), 1951, has its
headquarters in Brussels with a branch office in Paris. The first African
Regional Conference was held in Accra in 1957, working toward consolidation
of area committees into an African regional organization.
In
March 1961 the Executive Board, under political and financial pressure from AFL‑CIO
President George Meany, accepted a plan of reorganization "to make
the structure of the ICFTO more adequate and responsive... to the need for
building effective trade union organizations...in Asia, Africa, Latin America
and other parts of the world where the struggle is the hardest and the need is
the greatest..." The
positions of Director and Assistant Director of Organization were allowed to
lapse.
The role of the CIO in post World
War II Europe
The CIO's split with the World
Federation of Trade Unions
The formation of the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions
ICFTU’s structure,
activities
ICFTU Reorganization, 1961
Labor developments in Africa,
Asia, Europe and South American during the Cold War
Omer Becu
Elmer Cope
Albert Hammerton
Alfonso Madariaga
George Meany
Charles U. Millard
Michael Ross
Victor Reuther
Three
photographs have been placed in the Archives' Audio‑Visual Collections.
Several pamphlets have been placed in the Archives Library.
Materials include office log and
CIO involvement with the European Recovery Plan, Organization for European Economic
Cooperation, the Marshall Plan, and the Preparatory International Trade Union
Committee which gave rise to the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions.
Sub‑series A; Proceedings of ICFTU committees, Boxes 2‑12
Includes the Executive Board,
Emergency Committee/Sub‑Committee, Finance Sub‑Committee, General
Council/Consultative Council, International Trade Secretariats and ITS
Liaison Committee. At the end of the series are general published materials
relating to ICFTU's structure as well as the 1961 reorganization.
Sub‑series B, ICFTU Organization Department, 1951‑1961, Boxes 12‑17
Files of the Brussels office the
bulk of which relates to the activities of the African, Asian (ARO),
European (ERO) and Inter‑American (ORIT) regional organizations.
Contents
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1‑10. CIO
Office, October 28, 1948‑May 20, 1950
11. European
Recovery Programme, International Trade Union
Conference/Trade Union Advisory
Committee (London, March 9‑16 1948)
12‑17. ERP‑ITUC/TUAC proceedings, 1948‑1950,
with CIO summary notes
18. Misc.
Principal Activities of the Organization for European Economic
Cooperation, 1949
19. Conference Preliminaire des
Experts sur la Campagne Educative Pour le Plan Marshall, Compte‑Rendu, 15
septembre 1949
20‑27. Preparatory International Trade Union Committee
proceedings, June 25, 1949‑Sept. 21, 1949 with CIO summary notes.
1‑15. Executive Board
meetings 3‑8, November 1950-December 1952.
1‑13. Executive Board meetings 9‑13, July
1953-November 1954. The run is
complete except for the tenth meeting.
1‑13. Executive Board meetings 14‑18, May 1955‑November
1956. The run is complete except for the 15th meeting.
1‑14. Executive Board
meetings 19‑24, July 1957‑June 1959.
1‑10. Executive Board
meetings 25‑29, November 1959-March
1961. The
run is complete except for the 26th meeting.
11. Report by James B. Carey, AFL‑CIO on the 29th Executive Board
meeting
12. Statement and personal notes
of Jay Krane, 29th Executive Board meeting
1‑8. Emergency Committee
meetings 1‑8, February 1951-October 1955
9‑12. Sub‑Committee (successor to Emergency
Committee) meetings 9‑11, April 1956‑March 1958. The run is
complete through 1958 except for the second and third meetings.
13‑15. Finance Sub‑Committee meetings 1‑3,
November 1957-November 1957‑November 1958
1‑6. Finance Sub‑Committee
meetings 4‑9, May 1959-April 1961
7‑8. 1st General Council, July 1952
9‑12. Consultative Council (successor to General
Council) meetings 1‑3, May 1954‑July 1958
13‑17. International Solidarity Fund Committee
meetings 4‑8, March 1958‑March 1959. Some of the proceedings are in
French; some include handwritten
notes by Krane. The run is complete through with the exception of the first
four meetings.
1‑10. International Solidarity Fund Committee
meetings 9‑15, July 1959‑March 1961.
General
Conferences of the International Trade Secretariats and
the ITS
11. General Conference of the
International Trade Secretariats,
Vienna,
May 19, 1955
12‑13. ITS Liaison Committee
meetings 3‑4, November 1955‑March
1956
1‑2. General Conference of the ITS, Brussels,
October 29‑30, 1956 and May
30‑31, 1957
3. ITS Liaison Committee, 6th
meeting, November 1957
4. ITS/ICFTU Ad Hoc Committee on
Organization Priorities, January
1958
5. Special ITS/ICFTU meeting on Africa, January 1958
6. ITS Liaison Committee, 7th meeting, January 1959
7. Extraordinary General Conference of the ITS, February 1959
8. Joint ICFTU/ITS Meeting, September 1960, with correspondence
9. ICFTU Interim Committee for the
Regional Activities Fund, October
1951
10‑15. Regional Fund Committee meeting 1‑4, February 1952‑February
1953
16. Regional Fund Committee
meeting, 5th, May 1953 with reports of
the first
World Congresses of the Sugar, and Plantation Workers.
1‑14. Regional Activities
Fund Committee meetings 7‑12.
15. ICFTU Trade Union Conference on International Migration, Nervi,
9‑11 July l956
1. ICFTU Constitution, 1959
2. "
Charter of Organization, November 1959
3. Table of ICFTU and its Membership (as of 31 December 1958)
4. Report on the Structure of
ICFTU Headquarters, February 16, 1960
5. ICFTU Reorganization, March 1961
6‑10. " Circulars, January 1960‑April 1961
11. "
News Bulletins, 1960‑1961
12. "IGFTU After Ten Years: Problems and Prospects",
Windmuller,
January 1961
13. ICFTU Clippings, 1959‑61
14. "Know Your Facts #2‑Lecture Notes on ICFTU", April
10, 1969
15. Speech at Congress of PTTI, Vienna, July 1960
16. African Regional Conference, January 1957
17. Afro‑Asian Conference, July 1957
18. Réunion Speciale des Affiliées de la CISL un Afrique
du Nord, mars
1958
19. ARO East Central and Southern African Area Division, June 1960
20. Africa‑Geneva Office correspondence 1957‑58
21. Meetings between the Members from Africa and the Executive Board,
July 1960
22. Delegation to West Africa report, July-September 1960
23. Rapport de la delegation de la CISL en Afrique Accidentale,
juillet‑septembre
1960
24. Reunion Consultative Africain, septembre 1960
1‑7. Third African Regional Conference, November 1960
8. African correspondence, general, 1957‑60
9. Africa, clippings, 1959‑61
10. Africa, Executive Board minutes, 1960
11. All African Trade Union Federation, 1959‑1961
12‑13. Aden, 1957‑60
14. Africa Report draft, January 1961
15. Africa‑"Communist Infiltration in Africa and efforts to
counteract such
attempts"
by P. de Jonge, January 1961
16. "The African Communist", April 1960 issue
17. Afro‑Asian Institute for Labor Studies and Cooperation (see
also 14‑7)
18‑22. Algeria, 1953‑1960
23‑25. Arab Federation of Trade Unions, 1956‑59
1. Belgian Congo, 1956, 1960
2. "La Doctrine Generale du Syndicalisme Congolais", por A. R.
Kithima, 1960
3‑5. Egypt, 1955‑57
6. Ghana, 1958‑60
7. Israel, 1960 (See also 13‑17)
8. Jordan, 1953, 1957
9‑10. Kampala‑African Labor College, 1958‑1960
11. Kenya, 1959‑1961
12. Liberia, 1960
13. Libya, 1956‑1960
14. Morocco, 1956‑60
15. Nigeria and British Cameroons Labor Report, 1951
16. Nigeria, 1958‑1961
17. North Africa, 1957‑1960
18. Northern and Southern Rhodesia, 1958‑61
19. Somalia, 1960
20. South Africa, 1957‑60
21. Syria, 1955‑57
22. Sudan, 1957‑59
23. Tanganylka, 1958
24. Tunisia, 1956‑1961
1. Asian Regional Gonference, May
1951
2‑3. ARO labour reports, 1952‑55
4. Asian Trade Union Seminar, Rangoon May l955
5‑8. ARO, l957‑1959
9‑10. ICFTU Goodwill Mission
to Asia, Oct‑Nov. 1960
11. ARO Textile Worker's Preparatory Committee Meeting, Manila 3 Nov
1960
12. ICFTU Asian Trade Union College, 1957
13. Burma, 1951‑59
14. Indonesia, 1957‑59
15. India, 1959‑60
16. Korea, 1955, 1960
17. Malaysia, 1958‑59
18‑19. Pakistan, 1955‑60
20. Philippines, l954, 1957
21.Singapore, 1956‑1959
22‑23. Thailand, 1954‑1958
24. Tokyo Office, 1959‑60
25‑27. Vietnam, labor reports 1951‑59
28. Misc. clippings, ARO area, 1959‑61
1. Europe,
correspondence 1958‑9
2. European Regional Organization, correspondence, 1960
3.
Unilateral Activities of Affiliates DGB, OGB, TUC, 1959‑61
4. Austria, labor report, 1958
5. Cypress, correspondence, 1960‑1
6. Finland labor
reports, 1956‑1961
7. Finnish Trade Union Dispute‑Swedish Mediation, lg58
8. France, report on Force Ouvriere Confederal Congress, October
24‑27,
1956
9.
France, correspondence, 1956‑1958
10. Germany, labor reports, 1957‑1958
11. Greece, labor reports, 1954‑1956
12. Greece, labor reports, 1956‑1958
13. Greece, correspondence, ICA program, 1959‑1960
14‑16. Italy, labor reports, 1953‑1959
17. Spain, labor reports, 1954‑1958
18.
USSR‑clipping of George Meany statement, 21 May 1960
19. Yugoslavia, labor reports, 1957‑1958
20‑22. World Federation of Trade Unions, reports, 1954‑1957
23. Misc. Tronel Mosely correspondence 7/60‑2/61
24. Misc. Union Nationale des Meres et Femmes de Fusilles et
Prisonniers
Politiques Decedes, correspondence, 1959
1.Inter‑American Regional Organization (ORIT), 7th
Executive Meeting, Jan. 1954
2. ORIT: A Progress Report, Sept. 1954
3‑4. ORIT,
correspondence, 1957‑1960
5. ORIT Executive Committee, XV Meeting, Feb. 1960
6. IRIT, Budget, 1961
7. CADORIT‑correspondence, 1957
8‑9. AFL‑CIO correspondence, 1956‑1960
10‑11.
Argentina, labour reports 1954‑1959
12. Brazil, labour reports,
1954‑1957
13. "Plan for
Brazil" by H. R. Horne, 23 September 1960
14. Caribbean Congress of
Labour, inaugural Congress September 1960
15. Central America March
1956
16. Chile, labour reports,
1954‑1958
17. Columbia, labour
reports, 1958
18. Costa Rica, labour
report 1954
19. Cuba, labour report,
March 23, 1956
20. Curacao, labour reports,
1956‑1957
21. Dominican
Republic, labour report, March 19, 1956
22. Guatemala, labour report 1954
23. Haiti, labour report
October 1954
24. Honduras, labour
reports, 1954‑1956
25. Mexico, labour reports,
1955‑1958
26. Nicaragua, labour report 1956
27. Panama, labour reports
1954‑1955
28. Paraguay, labour report,
1955
29. Uruguay, labour reports
1954‑1958
30. Venezuela, labour
reports, 1954‑1959; correspondence, 1958
31. Misc. "Foreign Aid‑A New Canadian Experience" by
Prof. S. G.
Triantis
32. Staff matters:
correspondence, 1955‑61
33. Staff
matters: contract, salary, etc. 19551960
34. Draft on Relations between ICFTU/Regional Organizations, October,1960
35.
"Informal Notes on the ICFTU's Organization Work", May 3, 1960
36. Misc.
handwritten notes, Jay Krane, 1960
37. Misc.
correspondence, 1956‑58
38. Misc.
clippings, May 1961
CGT ‑
Confederation Generale du Travail
CGIL ‑
Confederation General Italian Laborers
CILO ‑
Comité International de Laison Ouvrierè
CISA ‑
Confederation Internationales des Syndicats Arabes
CISL ‑
Confederation Italiana del Lavora
CISL ‑
Confederation Internationale des Syndicats Libres (ICFTU)
CTAL ‑
Confederation of Latin‑American Workers
CUTCH ‑
Central Unica de Trabajadores de Chile
ECA ‑
Economic Cooperation Administration (Administered Marshall Plan, abolished
1951)
ERP ‑
European Recovery Plan
FTUC ‑
Free Trade Union Committee (AFL)
ICA ‑
International Cooperation Administration (later, Agency for International
Development)
ICFTU ‑
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
IFAP ‑
International Federation of Agricultural Producers
IFCTU ‑
International Federation of Christian Trade Unions
IGWF ‑International
Garment Worker's Federation
ILO ‑
International Labor Organization, (adjunct of the League of Nations, United Nations)
IOE ‑
International Organization of Employers
ITS ‑
International Trade Secretariats
IUE ‑
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
KFL ‑
Kenya Federation of Labor
LGWU ‑
Libyan General Workers Union
ORIT ‑
Inter‑Americas Regional Organization of Workers
PTTI ‑
Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Worker's International
TUC ‑
Trades Union Congress (Great Britain)
UGTT ‑
Union Generale Tunisienne du Travail
UIL ‑
Unione Italiana del Lavoro
UNAC ‑
United Nations Appeal for Children
USOM ‑
U.S. Operations Mission
WFTU ‑
World Federation of Trade Unions
For
acronyms not listed consult Acronyms & Initialisms Dictionary,
Thomas, Ethridge and Ruffner
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