Oral History Interviews with David A. Morse In the Truman Administration served as Director of Labor for the Military Government Group in Germany; general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, 1945-46; Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1946-47; Under Secretary of Labor, 1947-48 (Acting Secretary June 9-August 2, 1948); and as U.S. Government member, International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946-48. From 1948 to 1970 was Director-General of the International Labor Organization. Interview Transcripts July 25 | July 30 | & August 3, 1977

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Acheson, Dean, 126

and labor's support for Truman Doctrine, 35-37
and Truman Doctrine, 102-103, 105, 107
Ad Hoc Committee, chaired by Clark Clifford, 54-56, 59-61, 119-120
Atomic Energy Commission, and labor policy, 74-78

Berger, Sam, 28
Bowers, Claude, 27-28
Bricker Amendment, and ILO, 163

Cabinet meetings, procedures of, 43-45
Campaign of 1948, strategy for, 66
Carey, James, 31
Carlton Hotel, 56, 120
Carson, John, 90-91
Cass, Millard, 24-25, 140-141
Clifford, Clark:

and Ad Hoc Committee, 54-56, 59-61, 119-120
and Morse, David, 131
Conciliation Service, 49-50
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and World Federation of Trade Unions, 106

Davidson, C. Girard, 58

Ewing, Oscar, 52

and Ad Hoc Committee, 57-58

Fact finding boards, 82-83
Fenton, Frank, 123
Flynn, Ed, 56
Foreign Service Board, and Labor Department, 29
Forrestal, James, and Israel, recognition of, 70

and labor movement, 40-41
Foster, William (under Secretary of Commerce), 38-39, 51
and Taft Hartley Act, 68

Gambs, John, 25-26
Germany:

Control Council in, 7
and labor reform in 1945-1946, 86-88
occupation of, 6
Gibson, John, 19
Green, William (AF of L), 18, 31

Hague, Frank, 125
Hannah, Philip, 19, 114-115
Harriman, W. Averell, and Marshall plan, 108-111
Herzog, Paul, 8, 12, 13, 47, 68-69, 99, 100
Hoffman, Paul, 29-30, 107
Horowitz, Dan, 26, 27
Human rights, and U.S. non-ratification of ILO conventions, 162-163

International Federation for Free Trade Unions, and ILO, 169
International Labor Organization (ILO):

and Communist states, 133, 157-162
and David Morse, 120
and human rights convention, 162-164
and Training programs, 141-152
U.S. participation in, 24-25, 33
U.S. plan to withdraw its membership from, 171-172
Italy, and labor reform in 1944-1945, 85-86

Johnson, Keen, 19, 23
Jouhoux, Leon, 108, 109-110, 134

Kaiser, Henry (A F of L attorney), 93, 94-95
Kaiser, Philip, 32, 92, 93-97
Keyserling, Leon, and Ad-Hoc Committee chaired by Clark Clifford, 58, 62, 63, 73-74
Kingsley, Don, 58
Kmetz, John, 113

Labor attaché program, origin of, 26-29, 83-85
Labor commissioners, state, meetings of, 33-34
Labor Department:

and Marshall Plan, 30
organizational changes in, 50, 90-94
as representative of labor movement, 98-99
and "secret Six", 90
Labor Management conference in 1945, 79-80
Labor management relations, 45-47
Labor movement, and Truman Doctrine, 105
Labor policy of U.S. Government, 59-61
Labor, U.S. international policy on, origins of, 14-17
Lehman, Herbert, 9
Leiserson, William, 77-78
Lewis, John L., and Carlton Hotel, 120
Lie, Trygve, 168-169
Lillienthal, David, 74-78
Lubin, Isador, 16-17, 26-27, 170

McCarthyism, 160
McGrath, William L., 158-160
McSherry, General Frank, 7, 10
Margold, Nathan, 2
Marshall Plan, and labor movement, 29-30, 37-38, 112
Meany, George, and ILO, 154-157
Morse, David:

and Ad Hoc Committee chaired by Clark Clifford, 54-61
Election as Director General of ILO, 43, 121,122-135, 138-139
and Marshall Plan in France, 108-111
and Truman Doctrine, 102-105
Murray, Philip, 31

National Association of Manufactures, and International Labor Organization, 158-160
National Labor Relations Board, 3-4, 10-14, 99-101
Nehru, Jawaharlal, and International Labor Organization, 169

Office of International Labor Affairs, fate of, 117-119

Petroleum Labor Policy Board, 2-3
Point 4 Program, and ILO, 142-143

Ramadier, Paul, and Marshall plan, 108-111
Rowe, James, 66
Rusk, Dean, 126

Sauer, Walter, 4
Schwellenbach, Lewis, 18, 20-23, 42, 96, 137
"Secret Six", and Labor Department reorganization, 90-91
Shanley, Bernard, 123-124
Sicily, in World War II, 5
Smith, Oscar, 76
Snyder, John, 62
Soviet Union, and ILO, 164-168
Stanton, Frank, 56
Steelman, John, 45-48, 88-90, 97

Taft Hartley Act, veto of, 67-70
Thorp, Willard, 142-143
Tobin, Daniel J., 115-116
Tracy, Daniel W., 14-16
Trade Union Advisory Committee on International Affairs, 30-33, 36
Truman Doctrine, and Labor movement, 34-36, 101-104, 107
Truman Harry S.:

and Israel, recognition of, 72-73
and labor policy, 80-83
and Morse, David, 131-132, 137
and Sabbath observance, 132

Warren, Edgar, 116
Werts, Leo, 7, 171
Winant, John, 135, 153-154
Winslow, Thacher, 32, 92-93, 139
Witt, Nat, 100
Wohl, Matthew, 31
World Federation of Trade Unions, 35

Zellerbach, J. David, 122

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