Western Europe, 1971-1976

This series contains correspondence, agendas, newspaper clippings, reports, statements, periodicals, interviews, and speeches. The records date from 1971-1976, but most fall within the period 1972-1976. Topics include human rights in the Soviet Union; Finnish icebreakers; French/interinternational relations; the French Department of Defense's National Institute of Armament; Force Ouviere (FO) opposition to the Confederaton Generale du Travail (CGT) [France]; East German/West German relations; the AFL-CIO papmhlet, "Who Is the Imperialist?"; George Meany's 1973 interview on West German television; Radio Free Europe; Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)/AFL-CIO relations; various European trade union federations' positions on Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Chile, and South Africa; Trades Union Congress (TUC) [Great Britain] delegations to Romania, the Soviet Union, and East Germany; TUC/AFL-CIO relations; the AFL-CIO and anti-communism; the coup in Portugal; the direction of Spain after Francisco Franco; imprisonment of trade unionists in Spain; and Basque workers.

Major correspondents include: Tor Aspengren (President, Landsorganisasjonen i Norge); Andrew Bergeron (Secretary General, FO; Michael Boggs; Irving Brown; Thomas Byrne (U.S. Ambassador, Norway); Victor Feather (General Secretary, TUC); James Jack(General Secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress); Erwin Kristoffersen, (Director, DGB International Affairs); Ernest Lee; Jay Lovestone; George Meany (President, AFL-CIO); Lionel Murray (General Secretary, TUC); Ernest Nagy (Labor Attache, U.S. Embassy, Italy); Gunnar Nilsson (President, Landsorganisationen i Sverige); Nicholaus Papageorgiou (President, Greek General Confederation of Labor [GSEE]); Rolf Pauls (Ambassador, Federal Republic of Germany); Harry Pollak (Labor Attache, U.S. Embassy, U.K.) Ruaidhri Roberts (General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions); Kaare Sandegren (International Secretary, Landsorganisasjonen i Norge); Helmut Schmidt (Minister of Defense, Federal Republic of Germany; Joint Deputy Leader, German Social Democratic Party [SPD]; Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany); Miles Stanley (President, West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO); Raffaele Vanni (General Secretary, Unione Italiana del Lavoro [UIL]); Heinz-Oskar Vetter (President, DGB); Joachim Voss (Labor Counselor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany); Casimir Prinz Wittgenstein; and Al Zack (Director, AFL-CIO Public Relations Department).