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*'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref> | *'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref> | ||
*'''15''' [[George Meany]] negotiates no strike deal on behalf of [[AFL]] in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | *'''15''' [[George Meany]] negotiates no strike deal on behalf of [[AFL]] in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 00:35, 30 January 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 23 Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence[1]
- 25 Workers Age announces dissolution of Independent Labor League of America.[2][3]
- 30 Executive Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions decides to attempt to evacuate French Labour leaders, including Léon Jouhaux, to Britain.[4]
Feb
Mar
- American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor formed during a US visit by the TUC's Sir Walter Citrine.[5]
Apr
May
- 9 Vincent Astor sends Roosevelt clipping of New York Herald Tribune call for intelligence co-ordinator.[6]
June
- Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring Léon Jouhaux to London.[4]
- 22 - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.[7]
Jul
- Sydney Morrell report on British front organisations in the United States.[8]
- 19 British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.[9].
- Serafino Romualdi visits Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, where as a representative of the Free Italy Committee he directed a campaign to enlist the Italian population in those countries to the side of the Allies.[10]
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
- 26 Eric Maschwitz atrocity photographs memorandum.[11]
December
- 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.[12]
- 15 George Meany negotiates no strike deal on behalf of AFL in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.[13]
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Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.260. Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name "" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.23.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.
- ↑ Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.15.
- ↑ Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.