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*'''23''' Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.</ref> | *'''23''' Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.</ref> | ||
*'''25''' Workers Age announces dissolution of [[Independent Labor League of America]].<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | *'''25''' Workers Age announces dissolution of [[Independent Labor League of America]].<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | ||
| + | *'''30''' Executive Committee of the [[International Federation of Trade Unions]] decides to attempt to evacuate French Labour leaders, including [[Léon Jouhaux]], to Britain.<ref name "vanGoethem260">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.260.</ref> | ||
==Feb== | ==Feb== | ||
Revision as of 14:38, 15 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]
Jun
- 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].
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
- 26 Eric Maschwitz atrocity photographs memorandum.[10]
December
- 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.[11]
- 15 George Meany negotiates no strike deal on behalf of AFL in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.[12]
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.
- ↑ Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.260.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
