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World Trade Union Conference#Other Attendees

{{Short description|1945 gathering of trade unions}}

The World Trade Union Conference was a conference that was held between 6–17 February 1945. The conference was participated by countries from all around the world, at the County Hall, London.{{Cite web |last=University |first=London Metropolitan |title=The Worker's War: Home Front Recalled |url=http://www.unionhistory.info/workerswar/display.php?irn=3000095&QueryPage=/workerswar/imagesdocs.php |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.unionhistory.info |language=en}} Regarded as a significant moment within the international labour movement, it was the first time that workers from around the world came together to influence international politics.{{Cite book |last1=Adi |first1=Hakim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7mfAAAAMAAJ |title=The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited |last2=Sherwood |first2=Marika |date=1995 |publisher=New Beacon Books |isbn=978-1-873201-12-1 |language=en}}{{Dubious span|text=|date=September 2023}}

Both Clement Attlee and King George VI spoke to the audience at the conference. 204 representatives from 63 Unions around the world attended the conference including those from the Soviet Union, in an attempt to have representation within the United Nations and its Security Council.{{Cite web |title=Albert Gates: The World Trade Union Conference (May 1945) |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/glotzer/1945/05/wtuc.htm |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.marxists.org}} The conference, which was organised in the vein of the anti-fascist movement, being much inspired by both union and state notions of a new world order and influenced by the interests of the allied nations. Anti-war, post war reconstruction post-war and Trade Union were on the conference agenda.{{Cite journal |date=1945 |title=Labor Organizations |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41817831 |journal=Monthly Labor Review |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=1030–1034 |jstor=41817831 |issn=0098-1818}}

The conference resulted in the Declarations of the World Trade Union Conference, which were published in San Francisco by the Trade Union Council in 1945{{Cite journal |last=Tombs |first=Isabelle |date=April 1998 |title=The British TUC between Germany and Russia: From the Outbreak of War to the World Trade Union Conference of February 1945 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026569149802800203 |journal=European History Quarterly |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=219–243 |doi=10.1177/026569149802800203 |issn=0265-6914}} and inspired the Fifth Pan-African Congress to be held later that same year in Manchester.

One of the purposes of the conference was to create a draft constitution for the World Federation of Trade Unions, which was established at the first World Trades Union Congress, which was convened in Paris in October 1945.{{Cite web |title=WFTU » History |url=https://www.wftucentral.org/history/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |language=en-US}}

Attendees

The committee consisted of 45 voting members and one non-voting member while many other notable figures participated. {{Cite web |date=2007-02-21 |title=Wayback Machine |url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countries/panafrican/padmore1945.pdf |access-date=2023-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221225051/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countries/panafrican/padmore1945.pdf |archive-date=2007-02-21 }}

= Asia =

= Africa =

  • Nigeria: T.A. Bankole
  • The Gambia: I.M. Garba-Jahumpa{{Cite web |title=Gambian trade union official Ibrahima Momodou Garba-Jahumpa ,... |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/gambian-trade-union-official-ibrahima-momodou-garba-jahumpa-news-photo/1438606362 |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=Getty Images |language=en-gb}}
  • Ghana: J.S. Annan
  • Sierra Leone: I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson
  • South Africa: F.R. Swan

= Europe =

= North America =

  • Canada: Pat Sullivan, James Ewart McGuire
  • Cuba: Angel Cofiño
  • Jamaica: Ken Hill, Una Marson{{Cite web |title=Jamaican People's National Party politician and trade union leader,... |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/jamaican-peoples-national-party-politician-and-trade-union-news-photo/1434772407 |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=Getty Images |language=en-gb}}
  • United States: Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray, Reid Robinson, R. J. Thomas

= Oceania =

= South America =

  • Columbia: Bernardo Medina
  • Uruguay: Luis Gonzalez

Unknown: B. Goodwin, B. Locker,{{Cite web |title=B Locker of Histradut, the General Federation of Jewish Labour, at... |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/locker-of-histradut-the-general-federation-of-jewish-labour-news-photo/3401364 |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=Getty Images |language=en-gb}} Jacobus Oldenbroek and Vicente Lombardo Toledano{{Cite web |title=Germans in Argentina » 16 Feb 1945 » The Spectator Archive |url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/16th-february-1945/2/germans-in-argentina |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=The Spectator Archive}}

External links

  • https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TOF/WF/1

References

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Category:1945 conferences

Category:World Federation of Trade Unions