ACTIVITIES OF AMERICAN
In 1965 it was taken for granted that an important part of the world's work falls to international organizations and institutions and that international conferences, international travel, and the exchange of personnel among the nations of the world are routine and accepted features of the daily scene.
An increasing number of American trade unionists work at what are called "international labor activities" today, either for the AFL-CIO, international organizations sponsored by the AFL‐ CIO in Africa and Latin America, for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, for the International Trade Secretariats, or for their own unions. At least a dozen American unions have a full-time staff detailed to international labor assignments. Unions conduct frequent conferences on what are called international labor problems. Almost at any time during 1966, there will be American trade unionists in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and among the Pacific nations on official union missions. They will be taking part in training institutes in the Caribbean, organizing vocational training centers in Africa, consulting on joint programs with Histadrut at the Afro-Asian Institute in Tel-Aviv. They will be working with labor research personnel in Tokyo at the newly established International Wage Research Center in that city, they will be attending steel conferences in Europe, speaking at Common Market autoworker meetings, helping to organize housing cooperatives in Mexico or Venezuela, giving technical assistance on union health programs in the Argentine, discussing international trade questions in Paris