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The [[International Transport Workers' Federation]] (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions.<ref>[http://www.itfglobal.org/about-us/moreabout.cfm About the ITF], International Transport Workers' Federation, accessed 15 January 2011.</ref> | The [[International Transport Workers' Federation]] (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions.<ref>[http://www.itfglobal.org/about-us/moreabout.cfm About the ITF], International Transport Workers' Federation, accessed 15 January 2011.</ref> | ||
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| + | ITF established contacts with the British and French secret services before World War Two. For three years during the war, communications between London and its Swedish president, [[Charles Lindley]], went via the [[Special Operations Executive]].<ref name "vanGoethem263">Geert van Goethem, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEeyD0Q2O2YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.263.</ref> | ||
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The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions.[1]
World War Two
ITF established contacts with the British and French secret services before World War Two. For three years during the war, communications between London and its Swedish president, Charles Lindley, went via the Special Operations Executive.[2]
Notes
- ↑ About the ITF, International Transport Workers' Federation, accessed 15 January 2011.
- ↑ Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.263.
