Asia and Australia, 1971-1981

This series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, periodicals, agendas, speeches, press releases, pamphlets, statements, invitations, and photographs (See Series 6: Photographs). The records date from 1971-1981, but most fall within the period 1972-1976.

Topics include financial and material assistance to AFL-CIO sponsored or supported projects and activities; civil war and disaster relief in Bangladesh; the Asian-American Free Labor Institute; government repression of trade unions in Bangladesh; United Nations; India/Pakistan relations; arrest of George Fernandes, chair, Socialist Party of India; 6th Pacific Region Productivity Seminar; Japanese Confederation of Labor (DOMEI)/AFL-CIO annual meetings; All Japan Seamen's Union; human rights violations in Nepal; Richard Nixon's visit to China; Turkey's invasion of Cyprus; and the military dictatorship in Turkey.

Major correspondents include: Michael Boggs; numerous DOMEI and General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sohyo) officers; James Ellenberger; Harry Goldberg; Nat Goldfinger (Director, AFL-CIO Research Department); R.J. Hawke (President, Australian Council of Trade Unions); numerous Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) officers; Lane Kirkland (Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO); Ernest Lee; Jay Lovestone; Abdul Mannan (General Secretary, Jatio Sramik League [Bangladesh]); Edward McHale(Labor · Officer, U.S. Embassy, Australia); George Meany(President, AFL-CIO); Daniel Moynihan (U.S. Ambassador, India); M.A. Muttalib (General Secretary, Jatiya Sramik Federation [Bangladesh]); Morris Paladino; Leo Perlis, Director, AFL-CIO Community Services Department); Chen Shee-Shing (Director, Chinese Federation of Labor [CFL] [Taiwan]); and James C.H. Shen(Ambassador, Republic of China [Taiwan]).