In January, 1947, fear of Soviet and American intentions led to a secret meeting of senior cabinet ministers, where it was decided to press ahead with the development of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, an issue which later caused a split in the Labour Party.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

Thus, for an American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party, is quite different from a Briton's stating that he or she is a member of the Conservative or Labour party.

During the election campaign of 1966, Powell claimed that the British government had contingency plans to send at least a token British force to Vietnam and that, under Labour, Britain " has behaved perfectly clearly and perfectly recognisably as an American satellite ".

While at Oxford, he was the first American ever to chair the university Labour Club.

The Labour party adopted a policy of a single, directly elected Mayor ( a policy first suggested by Tony Banks in 1990 ), together with an elected Assembly watching over the Mayor ; this model, based on American cities, was partly aimed at making sure the new body resemble the erstwhile GLC as little as possible.

Benn publicly circulated the Cabinet minutes from the 1931 National Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald, which cut unemployment benefits in order to secure a loan from American bankers and resulted in the splitting of the Labour Party.

The king and Prince of Asturias have addressed many international organizations which include the United Nations, the institutions of the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, UNESCO, the International Labour Organization, and the Arab League.

Where the Labour Party promoted a reduction of tensions in the Nordic region, the Willoch cabinet approved forward logistical bases for American rapid deployment forces and lent full support to the NATO double track decision of 1979.

* Hilderic Cousens, " A New Policy for Labour ; an essay on the relevance of credit control " at American Libraries

Derogations by states having ratified or acceeded to binding international agreements such as the ICCPR, the American and European Conventions on Human Rights and the International Labour Conventions are monitored by independent expert committees, regional Courts and other State Parties.

The Fourth Protocol was published in 1984 and involves renegade elements within the Soviet Union attempting to plant a nuclear bomb near an American airbase in the UK, intending to influence the upcoming British elections and lead to the election of an anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-nuclear, pro-soviet Labour government.

In Moscow, the British traitor Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the General Secretary ( Soviet president ) stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the UK ( scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months ), the " hard left " of the party will oust the moderate, populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from England and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.

And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1932 – Dallin H. Oaks, American attorney, jurist, author, and religious leader, apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U. S. history, begins.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

* 1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader ( d. 1969 )

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

* 1961 – Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader

* 1945 – Laura Spurr, American nurse and tribal leader ( d. 2010 )

* 2007 – James E. Faust, American religious leader and lawyer ( b. 1920 )

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

* 1978 – Don Ellis, American jazz band leader ( b. 1934 )

* 1909 – Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader ( d. 2002 )

* 1914 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader ( d. 1978 )

* 1995 – Ralph Flanagan – American band leader ( b. 1914 )

* 1901 – André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger ( d. 1980 )

* 1924 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader ( b. 1850 )

The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly due to his American birth.

* 1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader ( presumed d. 1975 )

Du Bois, American civil rights leader ( d. 1963 )

* 1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader ( d. 1969 )