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Tom Griffin: /* World War Two */

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 ==External Resources==
 *[http://www.aflcio.org http://www.aflcio.org] Homepage of the merged AFL-CIO
-*[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/labor-unions-and-the-negro/ Labor Unions and the Negro], ''Commentary'', 1960.
+*[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/labor-unions-and-the-negro/ Labor Unions and the Negro], ''Commentary'', April 1960.
 *[http://www.laboreducator.org/darkpast.htm AFL-CIO's Dark Past: A 6-Part Series by Harry Kelber], The Labor Educator, November - December 2004.
 *Damon W. Root, [http://reason.com/archives/2009/03/13/divide-and-conquer Divide and Conquer: The American Federation of Labor's shameful record on race], Reason.com, 13 March 2009.

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 ==External Resources==
 *[http://www.aflcio.org http://www.aflcio.org] Homepage of the merged AFL-CIO
 *[http://www.laboreducator.org/darkpast.htm AFL-CIO's Dark Past: A 6-Part Series by Harry Kelber], The Labor Educator, November - December 2004.
 *Damon W. Root, [http://reason.com/archives/2009/03/13/divide-and-conquer Divide and Conquer: The American Federation of Labor's shameful record on race], Reason.com, 13 March 2009.

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 *Damon W. Root, [http://reason.com/archives/2009/03/13/divide-and-conquer Divide and Conquer: The American Federation of Labor's shameful record on race], Reason.com, 13 March 2009.
 ===Articles===
-*[[Roy Godson]], (1975) 'The AFL foreign policy making process from the end of World War II to the
+*[[Roy Godson]], (1975) 'The AFL foreign policy making process from the end of World War II to the merger', Labor History, 16: 3, 325 — 337
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Trade and Labour Unions]]

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 *[http://www.laboreducator.org/darkpast.htm AFL-CIO's Dark Past: A 6-Part Series by Harry Kelber], The Labor Educator, November - December 2004.
 *Damon W. Root, [http://reason.com/archives/2009/03/13/divide-and-conquer Divide and Conquer: The American Federation of Labor's shameful record on race], Reason.com, 13 March 2009.
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Trade and Labour Unions]]

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 ==World War Two==
-[[Matthew Woll]] announced the formation of the Labor Committee for Human Rights]] on 27 December 1940, at a luncheon for [[TUC]] General Secretary Sir [[Walter Citrine]] in New York.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19401227&id=zlUlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XasFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3530,5500853 Labor Will Give Aid to Britain], San Jose News, 27 December 1940.</ref>
+[[Matthew Woll]] announced the formation of the [[Labor Committee for Human Rights]] on 27 December 1940, at a luncheon for [[TUC]] General Secretary Sir [[Walter Citrine]] in New York.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19401227&id=zlUlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XasFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3530,5500853 Labor Will Give Aid to Britain], San Jose News, 27 December 1940.</ref>
 The AFL rejected the [[TUC]]'s December 1943 proposal for a worldwide congress of trade unions including those from the Soviet Union.<ref>Kees van der Pjil, [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/ The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class], Verso, 1984, p.59.</ref>

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 ==New Deal==
 The AFL's [[David Dubinsky]] was appointed treasurer of the [[Jewish Labor Committee]] (JLC) at its foundation on 25 February 1934. The JLC president, [[B.C. Vladeck]] gave a stirring anti-Nazi speech at the 1934 convention of the AFL, which created a Labor Chest to aid the victims of fascism.<ref>[http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/jlc_h.html Guide to the Records of the Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.), Part I, Holocaust Era Files WAG 025.1], The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Digital Library, accessed 30 April 2010.</ref>
 According to [[Roy Godson]], the AFL's position partly reflected its anticommunism:

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		+	[[Matthew Woll]] announced the formation of the Labor Committee for Human Rights]] on 27 December 1940, at a luncheon for [[TUC]] General Secretary Sir [[Walter Citrine]] in New York.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19401227&id=zlUlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XasFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3530,5500853 Labor Will Give Aid to Britain], San Jose News, 27 December 1940.</ref>
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	The AFL rejected the [[TUC]]'s December 1943 proposal for a worldwide congress of trade unions including those from the Soviet Union.<ref>Kees van der Pjil, [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/ The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class], Verso, 1984, p.59.</ref>		The AFL rejected the [[TUC]]'s December 1943 proposal for a worldwide congress of trade unions including those from the Soviet Union.<ref>Kees van der Pjil, [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/ The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class], Verso, 1984, p.59.</ref>

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 The AFL lost ground to the more militant CIO in the mid-1930s, but its position recovered with the recession of 1937.<ref>Kees van der Pjil, [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/ The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class], Verso, 1984, p.96.</ref>
-In 1938, AFL President [[William Green]] became president of the newly founded [[Labor League for Human Rights]]. He nevertheless restated AFL opposition to nonquota refugee admissions. Instead, the AFL supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine.<ref>Daniel J. Tichenor, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Il1IFKjzu6UC&pg=PA163&dq=%22Labor+League+for+Human+Rights%22&hl=en&ei=1SnbS5C1Lcr3-AaynqDiDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Labor%20League%20for%20Human%20Rights%22&f=false Dividing lines: the politics of immigration control in America], Princeton University Press, 2002, p.163.</ref>
+In 1938, AFL President [[William Green]] became president of the newly founded [[Labor League for Human Rights]]. He nevertheless restated AFL opposition to nonquota refugee admissions. Instead, the AFL supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine.<ref>Daniel J. Tichenor, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Il1IFKjzu6UC&pg=PA163&dq=%22Labor+League+for+Human+Rights%22&hl=en&ei=1SnbS5C1Lcr3-AaynqDiDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Labor%20League%20for%20Human%20Rights%22&f=false Dividing lines: the politics of immigration control in America], Princeton University Press, 2002, p.163.</ref> In 1939, the AFl opposed  the Wagner-Rogers Bill proposing nonquoa status for German refugees.<ref>Daniel J. Tichenor, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Il1IFKjzu6UC&pg=PA163&dq=%22Labor+League+for+Human+Rights%22&hl=en&ei=1SnbS5C1Lcr3-AaynqDiDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Labor%20League%20for%20Human%20Rights%22&f=false Dividing lines: the politics of immigration control in America], Princeton University Press, 2002, p.164.</ref>
 The overall result of the New Deal period was to see both the AFL and CIO involved in a corporatist compromise that offered workers higher wages in return for improved productivity. Both movements would take part in the internationalisation of this American model of labour relations after the War.<ref>Kees van der Pjil, [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/ The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class], Verso, 1984, p.136.</ref>