Guide to the Lewis Levitzki Lorwin International Labor Files,
1939-1966

Lewis Lorwin was a university teacher, foreign correspondent and economics advisor to numerous national and international bodies. His posts included economic advisor to the International Labour Office; advisor to the first U.S. Delegation to the United Nations; staff member, Brookings Institution; co-founder of the National Planning Association; advisor to the National Resources Planning Board; advisor to the Foreign Economic Association; and staff member, Office of International Trade, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Consist chiefly of reports and agenda of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) held in Brussels and New York, 1949-1962, which deal with nuclear warfare and universal disarmament, World Refugee Year (1959), foreign investments in economically underdeveloped countries, atomic energy, expansion of international trade, married women in employment, foreign assistance to developing countries, fair labor standards in international trade, the European coal and steel community, international migration problems, ICFTU boycott of South Africa, forced labor, workweek, Hungarian people's fight for freedom, the Middle East, and the United Nations. Also materials on Aden, Africa, Algeria, Aruba, Berlin, Brazil, Congo, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Lebanon, Netherlands Antilles, Nyasaland, Oceania, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paraguay, Portugal (and the Portuguese colonies), Rhodesia, Spain, Surinam, Thailand, Tibet, Tunisia, Uganda, Venezuela, and West Irian (Dutch New Guinea).

Also copies of letters (l947) from Matthew Woll (vice-president of the American Federation of Labor) to George C. Marshall (secretary of state) regarding the situation in Germany which shut the A.F.of L. off from the French and Russian zones; to Robert P. Patterson (secretary of war) regarding the A.F. of L. protest of the visit of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) mission to Japan and Korea (with Patterson's reply); to Premier Paul Ramadier regarding the French military government in Germany refusing A.F. of L. representative entry permit into French zones and refusal to accept mail.

Studies and reports concern A.F. of L. union structure (1939), communism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe (1947), trade union government (1961), labor-management relations (1960), trade union issues (1947), labor philosophy (1959), neo-institutionalism and economic change (1965), labor racketeering (1965), wage price guidelines (1966), reconstruction of the international union movement (1949), World Trade Union Conference (1944), coal economy throughout the world (1947), and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) (1948).

Reprints of articles by Lorwin and clippings, news releases, speeches and published articles on the CIO and A.F. of L. abroad, socialism, and communism.

Also scattered holograph notes.

Collection is arranged chronologically.