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...Soviet view prevailed, it would be Russia's second big attempt to form a new labor international. The Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) was quietly quashed seven years ago, never having made headway towards its object, to capture the conservative trade unions of all countries...
Perhaps, in the auspicious atmosphere of Russia's new political prestige, Lenin's words to the Profintern's first world congress were again remembered in Moscow: "The conversion of trade-union members to the ideas of Communism is moving irresistibly onward everywhere . . . moving irregularly, incorrectly, unsteadily, overcoming thousands of obstacles, but . . . still moving irresistibly onward...
...persons killed by ELAS, or by the Communist Party's terrorist organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade-union leaders, who claimed to represent Greek labor, were all formerly associated with Moscow's Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest...
...Moscow with Amsterdam was Solomon Lozovzky, a skyrocketing new favorite of Dictator Stalin. Few weeks ago he was a little known Soviet Trade Union official. Last week he was suddenly nominated for membership in the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party and to become Leader of the Profintern. The Profintern is the Red International of Labor Unions, created in 1921 by the Comintern of Moscow, whose business is to make "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
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