Illustrations
Figure 1 Irving Brown, with Greek trade union leader Fotis Makris, during a visit to Athens in January 1950
Figure 2 Vincent Tewson, general secretary of the TUC, 1946–60, delivering his opening address at the ICFTU’s Stockholm congress in July 1953
Figure 3 Walter Reuther, Vincent Tewson, and George Meany, at the December 1952 meeting of the ICFTU executive board
Figure 4 Victor Reuther, the key figure in the CIO’s overseas operations
Figure 5 AFL representative Phil Delaney and Jay Lovestone in July 1953, at the ICFTU congress in Stockholm
Figure 6 Relaxing over a hand of gin rummy, David Dubinsky and George Meany
Figure 7 AFL-CIO Vice President Jim Carey, Victor Reuther, and Irving Brown, at the ICFTU congress in Tunis, July 1957
Figure 8 Mike Ross, director of International Affairs for the CIO, 1945–55, and for the AFL-CIO, 1957–63
Figure 9 Jaap Oldenbroek, general secretary of the ICFTU, 1949–60, in July 1953, at the ICFTU congress in Stockholm
Figure 10 Walter Reuther and George Meany, at the June 1960 meeting of the ICFTU executive board, in Geneva
Figure 11 George Woodcock, the TUC’s general secretary, 1960–69, at a reception in London in 1963
Figure 12 Ludwig Rosenberg, DGB president, 1962–69, with Henry Rutz and Irving Brown
Figure 13 Omer Becu, the ICFTU’s general secretary, 1960–67
Figure 14 Walter Reuther and Arne Geijer, ICFTU president, 1957–65
Figure 15 Jef Rens, with Ludwig Rosenberg, in 1951
Figure 16 Bruno Storti, general secretary of CISL, 1958–76, and ICFTU president, 1965–72
Figure 17 Harm Buiter, general secretary of the ICFTU, 1967–71, at a January 1961 conference of the European Trade Union Secretariat
Figure 18 Vic Feather, TUC general secretary, 1969–73, and Heinz-Oskar Vetter, DGB chairman, 1969–82