Danish Federation of Trade Unions organization
also: DFTU, DT, DF, TU, Danish trade unions, WFTO, WFTU, World Federation Trade Union, inclusive trade union, old inclusive one
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Claims (6)
Eiler Jensen member_of
Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented
“the Social Democrat Party had received somewhere in the same ballpark. Eiler Jensen, E-I-L-E-R, Jensen, J-E-N-S-E-N, was the president of the trade union there. And the trade union there was called DFTU. He informed Irving Brown.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 6:32
Irving Brown recruited
Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented
“Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic countries. And basically, he was conductin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 3:30
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
Danish Federation of Trade Unions funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“in Western Europe, which, by the way, is Gladio Units. So they are using this newly formed international union to support, stay behind Gladio Units in Western Europe and to try to create ones or reestablish ones that are inside of Eastern E…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 40:11
Danish Federation of Trade Unions member_of
Free Trade Union International documented
“playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 39:41
U.S. State Department funded
Danish Federation of Trade Unions host_asserted
“Brown's efforts in Denmark were supplemented by the U.S. State Department, which saw the Nordic countries as the strongest social democrat bulwark against communist influence. At least that's how they build it. The State Department consider…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 45:18
Mentions (25)
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The PSI's, quote, finances were low and its stocks were low with its own parent body, the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, which was set up by the CIA in 1949 to rival the Soviet influenced World Federation of Trade Unions. …
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Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic countries. And basically, he was conductin…
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the Social Democrat Party had received somewhere in the same ballpark. Eiler Jensen, E-I-L-E-R, Jensen, J-E-N-S-E-N, was the president of the trade union there. And the trade union there was called DFTU. He informed Irving Brown.…
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as many as 650,000 members out of a population of 4.2 million people that was in the trade union movement on the two opposing sides. The Social Democrats controlled the DFTU and the majority of the trade unions in the country. This Danish t…
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was a movement that was trying to unify the country. There was no parallel trade union structure outside of the DT, DF, TU. It was the most organized. They had one called a Christian trade union, but it was very small and had been marginali…
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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…
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and brought former opponents in the labor movements together. They then formed resistant movements. The new federation had proclaimed a hard-won unity. In the World Federation Trade Union, the ideology and national boundaries were supposed …
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and Europeans, and a long list of third-party countries were represented in the same trade union, international, and to Lovestone's chagrin, they had communist inside of it. So you can see already, without even reading another word of this,…
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Well, you can't have international organizations with communists in them because then you can't have a boogeyman because they're going to go to these things and they're going to talk. People are going to talk to them and they can't have tha…
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joined the WFTO, the World Federation Trade Union. In a meeting of the Nordic national organizations in July of 1945, there was a common statement issued. Strong and well-disciplined labor organizations united in a powerful international fe…
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used as a guardian against any future war. The reoccurring bone of contention in the World Federation Trade Union was an organizational statute. The conflict was about the autonomy and independence associated with national organizations und…
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to be able to control certain aspects. Immediately upon returning home in July of 1946 from a meeting of the World Federation Trade Union that had happened in Moscow, Eiler Jensen reported to the labor movement's Nordic Cooperation Committe…
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In Jensen's opinion, efforts should be made to make them a part of the World Federation Trade Union, but under their terms. Another statement, quote, we should not nourish any illusions. The new trade union international will be bigger but …
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The trade union international is totally dependent upon whether the UN achieves success or not. Strong differences exist in the trade union international. Later on, he is quoted as saying, the Nordic trade unionists gave up the idea that th…
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It's not surprising. Nothing we can't handle, I guess. Okay. Okay. All right. So, I don't know what to do about the sound. Let's see. Okay. At the same time, there was a split forming, thanks to people like our buddy over here, Jensen, in t…
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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 …
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International Trade Secretariat held a Congress in Copenhagen. The leaders, including the Danish, began expressing displeasure with the WFTU and basically started questioning whether or not they wanted to be members. Irving Brown was the Am…
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of the inclusive one, that the AFL had been using the question of trade secretariats to attack the inclusive one. Brown held a long speech that urged the European trade movements to support the Marshall Plan, which would begin the division …
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a report to Lovestone of that meeting. And they had all decided that by embracing the Marshall Plan, it would be a way of, quote, bypassing the World Federation Trade Union, and that all of that could be done with or without the British, wh…
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of both trade unions. So basically confront the Soviet one of the World Federation Trade Union that had the Soviet membership in it. And obviously the bottom line is everybody came on board with the Marshall Plan and that then created a big…
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They go on to say that the DFTU announced support immediately for the Marshall Plan, where in the meeting with the World Federation Trade Union, they made big hay out of the fact that the Soviet Union was not wanting the Marshall Plan. And …
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They go on to say that the DFTU announced support immediately for the Marshall Plan, where in the meeting with the World Federation Trade Union, they made big hay out of the fact that the Soviet Union was not wanting the Marshall Plan. And …
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playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, an…
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ICFTU meant that the Danish trade unions contributed towards Denmark's integration into the Western Alliance. And the same thing happened in other Nordic countries to include Sweden, even though officially, militarily, and politically they …
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as part of the organization we learned about yesterday called the World Federation of Trade Unions, WFTU. From that point on, relationships between the administrators of the Marshall Plan in Paris and Transay would intensify. Transay kept h…