Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat

Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	太平洋勞動會議秘書處
Simplified Chinese	太平洋劳动会议秘书处
Transcriptions
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	太平洋職工秘書處
Simplified Chinese	太平洋职工秘书处
Transcriptions
Japanese name
Kanji	太平洋労働組合書記局
Russian name
Russian	Тихоокеанского секретариата профсоюзов
English name
English	Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
French name
French	Secrétariat Syndical Pan-Pacifique

The Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) was established as the Asia and Pacific branch of the Profintern (Red International of Trade Unions, or RILU) at a conference in Hankou, China in May 1927.^[1] The conference set the headquarters of the PPTU in Shanghai. Trade union participants to the founding congress came from the Soviet Union, France, China, Australia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Great Britain and Indonesia.^[2]

Its first head was American CPUSA member (and later chairman) Earl Browder; an original member was his brother-in-law Harrison George.

The journal of the Secretariat was the "Pan-Pacific Worker".^[3]

See also

• Jakob Rudnik (known as Hilaire Noulens) - secretary of PPTUS

References

1. Chesneaux, Jean (1968). The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927. Stanford University Press. p. 551. ISBN 0804706441. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
2. "American Labor Yearbook". New York: Labor Research Department Rand School of Social Science. 1929: 239.
3. "PAN-PACIFIC SECRETARIAT. MORE DISCLOSURES. COMBATING "WHITE TERROR" - Australian Unions' New Alliance". The Argus. 24 July 1928. Retrieved 17 August 2014.