Free Trade Union Committee organization
also: FTUC, F-TUC, EFTUC, F. Tuck
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Free Trade Union Committee founded
AFL-CIO documented
“The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions, and to, quote, fight against totalitar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 12:31
Irving Brown headed
Free Trade Union Committee documented
“Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typewriter and a suitcase packed full of mo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:28
Jay Lovestone headed
Free Trade Union Committee documented
“Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for whom, quote unquote, anti-communism was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 16:59
Free Trade Union Committee front_for
AFL-CIO book_quoted
“I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 14:56
Free Trade Union Committee targeted_for_regime_change
Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented
“The FTUC began a campaign against communist influence in the international labor movement. Its first major objective being to break the unity that had risen in the international trade union circles with the establishment of the World Federa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 23:01
Free Trade Union Committee funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“emphasized that American intervention in trade union affairs in countries like Italy, where the EFTUC was instrumental in splitting the trade union movement into pieces so that they could control it. Not only because the trade union movemen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 50:04
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▶ 12:31
The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions, and to, quote, fight against totalitar…
▶ 13:33
exists a good deal of research on the role that FTUC and its close relationship with the AFL with regards to the private organization that was formed by a group of these labor leaders that were associated with the AFL. It basically function…
▶ 14:02
for international work on behalf of AFL. Let's see. It was labeled a semi-autonomous labor foreign policy unit. Another author, Julia Anster, argued that FTUC worked as a kind of foreign policy think tank, as at best an inadequate one, and …
▶ 14:29
The EFTUC also had an operational side of great importance, including contacts and activities in the Eastern European theater as well as Western Europe, and made contributions to the establishment of so-called, quote-unquote, stay-behind ne…
▶ 14:56
I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structu…
▶ 15:31
In an internal EFTUC document, it documented the activities that were supported by the General Assemblies of AFL that the committee was always headed by the highest officers of the AFL, that's a quote from it, and was formerly a subcommitte…
▶ 15:55
So, in other words, although they tried to portray it as a separate entity, it was in no way, shape, or form separate. So, F. Tuck was managed by a legendary team of two people, Irving Brown and J. Lovestone, literally written Lovestone, wh…
▶ 23:01
The FTUC began a campaign against communist influence in the international labor movement. Its first major objective being to break the unity that had risen in the international trade union circles with the establishment of the World Federa…
▶ 32:43
because they used it against the Soviet Union almost immediately, that the stay-behind network that Dillon had already created and was already using against the Eastern European countries to destabilize them, like we read in Albania and sev…
▶ 33:12
uses the Soviets' reluctance to embrace the Marshall Plan as the wedge. So they're going to say that because the Soviet Union is part of the WFTU, that their lack of embracing the Marshall Plan is going to be the reason why you have to use …
▶ 50:04
emphasized that American intervention in trade union affairs in countries like Italy, where the EFTUC was instrumental in splitting the trade union movement into pieces so that they could control it. Not only because the trade union movemen…