Series III: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Files, 1958-1971

Series III: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Files, 1958-1971 includes correspondence, telegrams, reports, agendas, circulars, speeches, photographs, documentation of financial transactions, and news releases. Of particular interest is material on Welsh's appointment as ICFTU representative in Africa and reports on union activities in Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Also included is a list of ICFTU field representatives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; a draft of the Constitution of the Confederation of East African Trade Unions; a report on the First All-African Trade Union Conference; and records of the Pan-African Trade Congress held in Casablanca in 1961. Additional documents deal with CIA involvement in Kenya; the formation of the African Labour College in Uganda, which provided educational training for trade unionists in Africa; and the opposition to Tom Mboya's affiliation with the ICFTU by African countries that wanted to operate independently. The series also includes speeches made by heads of African states at a summit conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963; a description of union activity and efforts to create a national trade union center in the Sudan; and financial accounts and a proposed program of organization and education within the Kenya Federation of Labour.