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Ads by Google      Milton Fisk: Socialism From Below in the US (1. Communist Party in the 20s) The 2nd Congress also called for working in the American Federation of Labor, against the policy of the IWW of dual unionism. TUEL formed caucuses, the strongest of which were in the furriers, ladies garment workers, and miners unions. With Foster and the militants associated with him won to the CP, TUEL adopted a three-point program: amalgamation of craft into industrial unions, the formation of a labor party, and the recognition of the USSR. http://www.marxists.de/trotism/fisk/ch1.htm      Trade Union History The Union Makes Us Strong : TUC History Online, a partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress in support of their strategies in lifelong learning, made possible through a grant from the New Opportunities Fund as part of their NOF-Digitise programme. Charles Darrow, a man who specialized in defending trade union leaders, was employed to defend Hayward. Trade unions have played, and will continue to play, a decisive role in shaping economic and social developments in Britain - yet much of their history is at present unknown and inaccessible to the public. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryTU.htm      CAC Manuscripts: MS 468 001484 Congress of the Trade Unions of the USSR Soviet trade unions on the threshold of the 2nd 5-year plan... 000320 Trotsky, Leon Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay. 000945 Trotsky, Leon Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay. http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms0468i.html      Drug History In 1886, Congress makes such education mandatory in the District of Columbia, and in territorial, military, and naval schools. The British force upon China the trade in opium, a trade the Chinese had declared illegal.. Supsequent Opium Conventions are held in 1913 and 1914. http://www.drug-rehabs.org/drughistory.php      Trade Union Movement in Belarus The reason for such step became the decision of the authorities of Minsk to authorise the BCDTU to hold a picket against violation of trade union rights on October 22 on the square Bangalor in Minsk under condition of conclusion of contracts for service of six organizations, which are to be paid by the Congress. The trade union was proposed to take the decision before November 18 about change of its status and to inform about that the Ministry of Justice. On behalf of the Council of the trade union the SPM chairman Vladimir Drugakov sent a letter to the Minister of Justice Viktor Golovanov asking to take measures aimed at elimination outlaw activities of separate officials of the Ministry of Justice toward the trade union. http://www.praca-by.info/site?l=eng&v=page&id=7   (2452 words)      Address by COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi at the Opening Session of the ICFTU 17th World Congress, Durban, 3 April 2000 The holding of this congress in our continent only for the second time signals confidence in the growing strength on the African trade union movement. This congress consolidates the irreversible process of South Africa's reintegration into the family of democratic and free nations and the international trade union movement. This opening ceremony signals the beginning of the workers international parliament, for the forthcoming five days the eyes of the workers around the globe will be focused on the congress as we deliberate on the future of the trade union movement. http://www.cosatu.org.za/speeches/2000/zv000403.htm   (2452 words)      All India Trinamool Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Prior to the merger the students wing of the party was known as Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, the teachers wing Nationalist Democratic Teachers’ Association and the trade union wing was called Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress. The party was led by Mamta Banerjee and was a splinter-group of the Indian National Congress. All India Trinamool Congress, earlier West Bengal Trinamool Congress, (WBTC), was a political party in India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress   (2452 words)      Union Network International: 1st World Congress, Berlin 2001 Greetings to UNI's World Congress from Dieter Schulte, President of the German Trade Union Federation - the DGB This is why I hope that at the UNI World Congress we will be sending out a strong and clear signal that we, the trade unions, are important players on the international stage and that we will use all means at our disposal to defend the interests of workers. Union Network International: 1st World Congress, Berlin 2001 http://www.union-network.org/UNIsite/Events/Congress/WelcomeSchulte.html   (564 words)      14th WORLD TRADE UNION CONGRESS Indrajit Gupta, M.P., President of the WFTU and other Vice Presidents ofthe WFTU and K.L.Mahendra, General Secretary of the All-India Trade Union Congress and the National Preparatory Committee for the Congress constituted the Presidium. The Congress called for the implementation of the UN Declaration for a New International Economic Order which was adopted by the UN Gerneral Assembly in 1974, upholding international economic cooperation based on equality of rights of all countries, an end to unequal trade and economic exchanges. Messages wishing the success of the Congress were received from the President and Prime Minister of India, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the President of Syria as well as Mr Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General. http://www.wftu.cz/congress.html   (564 words)      Trade Union Movement Historical Information The Taft-Hartley Act was passed by Congress outlawing secondary boycotts by unions, the sit-down strike and new injunctive relief for the employers was granted. The United States Department of Labor was established; the Clayton Act was passed by Congress legalizing and protecting picketing and other certain union activity. The creation of the U.S. trade union movement was the most violent in the world as a result of the wars waged against workers trying to organize into unions during this time. http://www.reapinc.org/History.html   (1076 words)      TamilNet: 30.10.99 S.Thondaman dies He is also the leader of one of the powerful trade unions of the plantation sector,the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC). Another trade union, the Democratic Workers Congress (DWC), was formed in 1956 as a breakaway faction of the CWC as a result of leadership rivalries between the president, S.Thondaman, and the general secretary A. iz. In 1950 the CIC changed its name to the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) and it became the largest trade union in the country. http://www.tamilnet.com/reports/99/10/3004.html   (1076 words)      Trades Union Congress - Congress Decisions 2000 Congress congratulates the STUC and affiliates in Scotland for their efforts in ensuring that a trade union perspective has been prominent in the work of the Scottish Parliament and calls on affiliates to ensure that appropriate resources, administrative and policy devolution are available to affiliates in Scotland to continue and expand this important work. Congress and the General Council will give full support to affiliated unions pursuing the objectives of this motion and the General Council will report back to Congress on progress. The trade unions' role in avoiding the digital divide should be by developing web-based services and information for their members and seeking to negotiate access to the internet at work for their members. http://www.tuc.org.uk/congress/tuc-2916-f0.cfm   (1076 words)      World Federation of Trade Unions -- 14th Congress -- International solidarity The 14th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was held in New Delhi, India from March 23 to 28. At the Congress, General Secretary Alexander Zharikov was re-elected to his position for the third successive term and K L Mahendra, the Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, was elected to the position of President. The first part of the Congress was dedicated to an International Trade Union Solidarity Conference against Blockades and Sanctions. http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/20000412warreguard.htm   (1076 words)      Trade union - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch Most British unions are members of the TUC, the Trades Union Congress, and where appropriate, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, which are the country's principal national trade union centers. Labor Unions in the U.S.A. Most labor unions in the United States are members of a larger umbrella organization, the AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission in 1867, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees. http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/labor_union.htm   (1076 words)      Communism and the Communist Trade Unions This committee functions as an International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions, working in accord with the Executive Committee of the Third International under conditions to be determined by congresses. However, the splitting of the trade unions, under certain conditions, was also declared necessary by the Second Congress. A world trade union congress was to establish both the unification of the Moscow and Amsterdam organisations and also the complete unification of all social democrats and Communists in the trade union sphere. http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/History/Rosenberg.html   (4536 words)      Other Important Items Concerning the Revolution The Albany Congress was a meeting held at Albany, N.Y., in June-July 1754, attended by representatives of the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire and of the five Iroquois nations whose plan for a federal union of the colonies was a precursor of the U.S. Constitution.. It was called by the Continental Congress and several states in response to the impending bankruptcy of Congress and a sense of emergency arising from an armed revolt--Shay's Rebellion--in New England. The central government was to consist of a president-general chosen by the crown, and a congress chosen by the separate colonial assemblies. http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/OTHER.HTM   (3566 words)      The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political pressure groups and leaders Civil Liberties Action Committee or CLAC; Guyana Council of Indian Organizations or GCIO; Trades Union Congress or TUC Congolese Trade Union Congress or CSC; General Union of Congolese Pupils and Students or UGEEC; Revolutionary Union of Congolese Women or URFC; Union of Congolese Socialist Youth or UJSC Congress of South African Trade Unions or COSATU [Zwelinzima VAVI, general secretary]; South African Communist Party or SACP [Blade NZIMANDE, general secretary]; South African National Civics Organization or SANCO [Mlungisi HLONGWANE, national president]; note - COSATU and SACP are in a formal alliance with the ANC http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2115.html   (3566 words)      My Further Disillusionment in Russia In short, nothing was left undone to put the delegates into a frame of mind favourable to the great plan that was to be revealed to them at the Red Trade Union and the Third International Congresses. How much the Bolsheviki depended upon the First Congress of the Red Trade Union International was apparent from a remark of an old Communist. The background for the Congress of the Third International was the Kremlin. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/further/mfdr_8.html   (3566 words)      Trades Union Congress - General Council Report - Chapter 11 The Congress of South African Trade Unions called for the resignation of President Mugabe given his indifference to the call for action to restore confidence amongst investors, and for early elections as the country was on the brink of collapse. The TUC held a seminar on trade union rights in Colombia, at Congress House in May. The discussion was led by a panel of expert speakers from the CUT, the ICFTU, the ILO and Justice for Colombia, and was addressed by the General Secretary. In response to a request from the Fiji Trades Union Congress, TUC Aid paid for the purchase of a workstation and a printer to be used in the education campaign for restoration and preservation of democracy in Fiji. http://www.tuc.org.uk/congress/tuc-3609-f0.cfm   (3566 words)      Albany Congress --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! The Albany Congress had been called by the English Board of Trade to deal with two... E-text of this plan drafted by Benjamin Franklin and adopted by the Albany Congress, to establish a more centralized government for the British colonies in America. The Albany Law School at Union University located in Albany, New York. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9005405   (924 words)      Encyclopedia: All India Trinamool Congress Prior to the merger the students wing of the party was known as Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, the teachers wing Nationalist Democratic Teachers’ Association and the trade union wing was called Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress. The party was led by Mamta Banerjee and was a splinter-group of the Indian National Congress. The new party is called Nationalist Trinamool Congress. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/All-India-Trinamool-Congress   (924 words)      All India Trinamool Congress Prior to the merger the students wing of the party was known as Trinamool Chhatra Parishad and the trade union wing was called Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress. The new party is called Nationalist Trinamool Congress. Ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections AITC merged with P.A. Sangma's break-away fraction of the Nationalist Congress Party. http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/a/al/all_india_trinamool_congress.html   (924 words)      Trades Union Congress - Colombia: the search for peace with social justice Senator Gaviria, who represents the Social and Political Front in Congress, recently visited London as a guest of Justice for Colombia and met trade union colleagues and others. As President Uribé pursues pro-rich and anti-worker neo-liberal policies, his search for a military solution to Colombia's deep and complex social malaise and the undermining of democratic and trade union rights in law and practice continue to be the key barriers to a negotiated peace and to sustainable economic and social development. Strikes are regularly declared illegal and, with the honourable exceptions of local government in Bogot&; and Valle de Cauca, both run by former presidents of the CUT national trade union centre, collective bargaining remains denied to public servants. http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-10448-f0.cfm   (679 words)      FI - 15th World Congress - Role and Tasks But above all, these trade-union problems immediately raise the necessity of a political strategy for the workers' and social movement, and an alternative to the existing society and state institutions (see the resolutions of the last World Congress). We will continue our strategic task of contributing to an active trade-union movement in Europe, through activity in the major trade-union federations in the European Trade Union Confederation, in the radical unions and all movements and networks linked to the proletariat (for example the Euromarches movement). Resolution of the 15th World Congress February 2003 http://www.okde.org/4/4i15role_en.htm   (7299 words)      New Caledonia - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade The New Caledonian Congress is made up of 54 members out of the three Provincial Assemblies (Southern, Northern and Islands Provinces, which have 32, 15 and 7 members respectively). The Noumea Accord gave New Caledonia an executive government of between five and eleven members, to be elected by and responsible to the New Caledonian Congress. Australia has interests in working with the New Caledonian and French authorities in New Caledonia in a range of areas including: promoting greater trade and investment; cooperating in providing regional natural disaster relief; defence co-operation including visits and joint exercises; combatting security threats and crime; and promoting links through sport, tourism and culture. http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/new_caledonia/new_caledonia_brief.html   (7299 words)      CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Political pressure groups and leaders Civil Liberties Action Committee or CLAC; Guyana Council of Indian Organizations or GCIO; Trades Union Congress or TUC Congolese Trade Union Congress or CSC; General Union of Congolese Pupils and Students or UGEEC; Revolutionary Union of Congolese Women or URFC; Union of Congolese Socialist Youth or UJSC Netherlands Trade Union Federation (FNV) (consisting of a merger of Socialist and Catholic trade unions); Christian Trade Union Federation (CNV); Trade Union Federation of Middle and High Personnel (MHP); Federation of Catholic and Protestant Employers Associations; Interchurch Peace Council or IKV; large multinational firms; the nondenominational Federation of Netherlands Enterprises http://www.phatnav.com/factbook/fields/2115.html   (7299 words)      A brief history of Australian Unionism and the role of the Communist Party The essential need for unions to campaign politically for progressive post-war gains was stressed at this Congress as was the need for the union movement to win support from other progressive forces in the cities and in the country. These differences were lead a number of trade union leaders and members to leave the Party in 1984. At least eight communist trade union leaders were gaoled during the period of the strike and the miners were defeated although subsequently, many of their industrial demands, which were the cause of the strike, were conceded. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/1611/tuhist.html   (10934 words)      BOLSHEVISM vs. REFORMISM A number of cases could be quoted in the history of German Social-Democracy for instance, when the decisions of the trade union congresses differed from those of the Social-Democratic Party Congresses-for instance on the question of the general strike in 1905. And this was so despite the fact that the delegates to the trade union congresses were Social-Democrats who knew the standpoint of the Party. Although the trade unions were not built along factory lines, they still had their representatives and financial secretaries in the factories, and since these financial secretaries and trade union delegates were mostly Social-Democrats, the Social-Democratic Parties, through these trade union delegates and through the trade unions, were connected with the factories. http://www.plp.org/pl_magazine/pyatnits.html   (10934 words)      Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Confederations tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign affairs, foreign trade, and a common currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all members. European Union (foreign affairs and many other things left to states, some things centrally controlled) The United States of America was first organized as a confederation under the Articles of Confederation and later became a federation with the ratification of the current US constitution in 1789. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate   (547 words)      Printer Friendly Version Mayor Mukherjee is a councillor of a Kolkata municipal ward, he is a sitting MLA from Chowringhee Assembly seat, he is the state president of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (the trade union wing of the Congress) despite being a Trinamool Congress MLA. He also reminds voters that Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was born out of ‘‘sympathy’’ for the injustice she faced in the Congress party. He is rated the most ‘‘shrewd and mature’’ among the opposition Congress and Trinamool leaders in the state. http://www.indianexpress.com/print.php?content_id=46523   (547 words)

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