Word: romualdi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time the man who supplied the leadership was a plump little Italian-born U.S. labor leader named Serafino Romualdi. As the American Federation of Labor's walking delegate in Latin America, he had tirelessly gone up & down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...
With the Communists silenced and Peronistas taking it easy, Romualdi attacked hemispheric military dictatorships. He brought out letters, documents, underground newspapers and lists of prisoners as evidence that military regimes in both Peru and Venezuela had jailed workers and smashed unions. Under pressure of U.S. Government delegates, headed by Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis O. Briggs, he withheld a resolution of condemnation, but got through a statement demanding I.L.O. investigations in Peru and Venezuela...
...kick up a row by accusing the A.F.L. of keeping Argentines away from Lima. He got nowhere. A tactless resolutions committee had brought in pronouncements for planned economy and against the "imperialistic manifestations of U.S. economic policy in Latin America." They were tabled after the A.F.L.'s Serafino Romualdi urged "editing down those socialistic ideas...
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