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The World Trade Union Conference between 6–17 February 1945 was participated in by countries from all around the world, at County Hall, London.[1] Regarded as a significant moment within the international labour movement as it was the first time that workers from around the world came together to influence international politics.[2][dubious – discuss] It was a product of the wave of popular internationalism and union self-confidence following the defeat of fascism in World War II.[3]
Both Clement Attlee and King George VI spoke to the audience at the conference.[1] 204 representatives from 63 Unions around the world attended the conference including those from the Soviet Union, in an attempt to have representation within the United Nations and Security Council.[4] The conference, which was organised in the vein of the anti-fascist movement being much inspired by both union and state notions of a new world order plus influenced by the interests of the allied nations.[3][1] Anti-war, post war reconstruction post-war and Trade Union were on the agenda.[5]
The conference resulted in the Declarations of the World Trade Union Conference, which were published in San Francisco by the Trade Union Council in 1945[6] and inspired the Fifth Pan-African Congress to beheld later the same year in Manchester.[2]
One of the purposes of the conference was to create a draft constitution for the World Federation of Trade Unions which was established at the first World Trades Union Congress which convened in Paris in October 1945.[5][7]
^ abcUniversity, London Metropolitan. "The Worker's War: Home Front Recalled". www.unionhistory.info. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
^ abAdi, Hakim; Sherwood, Marika (1995). The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited. New Beacon Books. ISBN 978-1-873201-12-1.
^Tombs, Isabelle (April 1998). "The British TUC between Germany and Russia: From the Outbreak of War to the World Trade Union Conference of February 1945". European History Quarterly. 28 (2): 219–243. doi:10.1177/026569149802800203. ISSN 0265-6914.
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