Compiled by Weaver

This subseries consists largely of correspondence, memoranda, reports, ICFTU Executive Board minutes (1955) and publications compiled by Weaver during his tenure with the ICFTU (1955-1957). Correspondents include: Thomas Bavin, Alvin Rucker, Charles H. Millard, Michael Ross, Walter Reuther, and Hubert Humphrey. Weaver's correspondence files include letters sent to, and received from Malaysian government officials and Singapore trade union leaders. The bulk of the records documents his chairmanship of the special ICFTU mission to Okinawa (1956) and work as director of the ICFTU regional office in Singapore, Malaysia.

Weaver spearheaded an ICFTU investigation of labor and political upheaval in Singapore, Malaysia in 1955 and chaired a special mission to the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa, Japan) in 1956 to substantiate charges of the violation of workers' rights by contractors operating under the U.S. Civilian Administration. Following this investigation he was reassigned to the ICFTU regional office in Singapore to assist in organizing and bolstering free democratic trade unions in South East Asia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Weaver acted as a liaison with the affiliated unions of the Singapore and Malaysian Trade Union Congress. He reported extensively on political, economic, and social conditions affecting the nascent Malaysian labor movement--particularly communist insurgency, political repression, and neo-colonial corporate policies. Weaver acquired expertise on the conditions of labor under corporate plantations and monitored workers' disputes with such foreign investors as Ford and Firestone. Interspersed correspondence and reports highlight the CIO and AFLCIO's involvement in foreign affairs and commitment toward forging a united front with foreign labor movements against employers and communist-affiliated unions.