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Ludwig Rosenberg talks with Henry Rutz and Irving Brown at the Third World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, July 4-11, 1953

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Summary:German delegate, Ludwig Rosenberg (German Confederation of Labor), talks with Henry Rutz (AFL) and Irving Brown (European Representative of AFL) at the Third World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Stockholm, July 4-11, 1953. Reverse caption reads: "The third world congress of the International Corporation of Free Trade Unions opened in Stockholm on July 4, 1953. Delegates from 74 countries, representing over 53 million members from 100 organizations, met to discuss problems of interest to all. Representatives of the most prosperous, most industrialized nations met with the spokesmen of the poorest, least developed areas, 'In common brotherhood, and with the common aspirations for a better world for all man-kind.' Monday July 6 was the first working day for the conference, which took place in the Houses of Parliament. // SWE 245// Here the German delegate, Ludwig Hosenberg, representing the German Confederation of Labor (DGB), talks with two American delegates of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Henry Rutz (center), and Irving Brown (right), European Representative of AFL. // USA/SRE Paris// No rights reserved." For complete collection information, visit the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42579
Century:1901-2000
Place of origin – Continent:Europe
Place of origin – Region:Sweden
Place of origin – Settlement:Stockholm
Temporal subject: 1901-2000
1951-1960
1953-07
Geographical subject – Continent:Europe
Geographical subject – Region:Sweden
Geographical subject – Settlement:Stockholm
Topical subjects:AFL-CIO
Labor
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. World Congress
Labor union
Rosenberg, Ludwig, 1903-1977
Rutz, Henry J.
ArchivesUM location:AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection
  • series 2: Portrait Files, undated
  • box : 20
  • folder 17: Rutz, Henry
  • accession 2014-001-RG96-001
Repository:Historical Manuscripts
Browse terms:Economics, Business, Commerce, Labor
Copyright holder:unknown
Collection:Digital Collections
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