They are leaving so fast that the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin.

The Thrift Shop, with Mrs. Bernhard S. Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses, an organization that lobbies for small businesses, called the ADA " a disaster for small business ".

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as " the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

The World Bridge Federation is the governing body for international competitive bridge.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The All Japan Kendo Federation specify the dimensions of bokken for use in the modern kendo kata, called Nippon kendo kata.

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.

As a sport, cycling is governed internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland, USA Cycling ( merged with the United States Cycling Federation in 1995 ) in the United States, ( for upright bicycles ) and by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association ( for other HPVs, or human-powered vehicles ).

Cycling for transport and touring is promoted on a European level by the European Cyclists ' Federation, with associated members from Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere.

Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation, Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling.

There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China.

The USASF was formed in 2003 by the competition companies to act as the national governing body for all star cheerleading and to create a standard set of rules and judging standards to be followed by all competitions sanctioned by the Federation, ultimately leading to the Cheerleading Worlds.

Pan-American Cheerleading Championships ( PCC ): The PCC was held for the first time in 2009 in the city of Latacunga, Ecuador and is the continental championship organised by the Pan-American Federation of Cheerleading ( PFC ).

* METS, a metadata standard maintained by the Library of Congress for the Digital Library Federation

* National Federation of Independent Business – 100 % for 2005 – 2006

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

* 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

* 1936 – The United Auto Workers ( UAW ) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".

* Federation of American Scientists page

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

* Camp David from the Federation of American Scientists

* An introduction to cruise missilesFrom the website of the Federation of American Scientists ( FAS )

The largest cheddar ever produced was created in Oregon by the Federation of American Cheese-makers in 1989.

* Sandra Feldman ( B. A 1960 ), President, American Federation of Teachers

William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, was taken to the first camp to demonstrate that there would be no job training involved beyond simple manual labor.

* 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.

* Harry Goode Memorial Award, American Federation of Information Processing Societies ( 1989 )

Soon, social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among Central American leaders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839.

Honduras broke away from the Central American Federation in October 1838 and became independent and sovereign state.

The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).

The federation had external ties with the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), the Permanent Congress for Latin American Workers Trade Union Unity ( Congreso Permanente de Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de América Latina — CPUSTAL ), and the Central American Committee of Trade Union Unity ( Comité de Unidad Sindical de Centroamérica — CUSCA ).

He developed a " mutualist " theory of unions and as such was active within the Knights of Labor and later promoted anti-political strategies in the American Federation of Labor.

And in December 1918, the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) issued its own distinctively apolitical report, which called for the achievement of numerous incremental improvements via the collective bargaining process.

Immigration was a prominent topic in the lead up to Australian Federation.

" Taking a turn to the right, McCarthy became a member of the Board of Advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

( Tanton was a former head of the Sierra Club's population committee and of Zero Population Growth, and founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ), an immigration reductionist group.

During the campaign the Federation for American Immigration Reform ran ads asking: " Why is Senator Spencer Abraham trying to make it easier for terrorists like Osama bin Laden to export their war of terror to any city street in America?

In 1978, John Tanton, former Chairman of the National Sierra Club Population Committee and former President of Zero Population Growth, founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Of the three candidates, two ( Frank Morris and David Pimentel ), were on the board of the anti-immigration group Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America and two ( Richard Lamm and Frank Morris ) were on the board of directors or the board of advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform ; both had also held leadership positions within the NAACP.

Choate serves on the board of directors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the largest and oldest immigration reform organization in the U. S. He is also on the Board of Directors for the American Innovators for Patent Reform.

He and his wife Anne were on the board of advisers of the Federation for American Immigration Reform until 2003.

Organizations that have endorsed Tancredo's bill include: NumbersUSA, Population-Environment Balance, Carrying Capacity Network, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Negative Population Growth, and the American Patrol.

* Federation for American Immigration Reform

The Fund gave the Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ) a total of $ 1. 3 million between 1985 and 1994.

* Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform ;

* Federation for American Immigration Reform

Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington-based organization that seeks to end illegal immigration, said the revised definition panders to a small but vocal group of critics who are " manipulating the political, cultural and now linguistic landscape " of the United States.

Lamm serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ), and on the Board of Directors of the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America ( DASA ).

Minority rights ’ interest groups such as the National Latino Congreso / William C. Velásquez Institute, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform consistently rate Brady from fifty to one hundred percent for his strong stance on immigration.

With the Federation of the Australian colonies into a single nation, one of the first acts of the new Commonwealth Government was the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, otherwise known as the White Australia policy, which was a strengthening and unification of disparate colonial policies designed to restrict non-White settlement.

In February 2009, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced that he would review and possibly reduce or eliminate federal funding to the Canadian Arab Federation ( CAF ) after its president criticized Kenney's pro-Israel position in the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict.

Two separate, rival groups supported Proposition 200: Prop 200's sponsor " Protect Arizona Now " led by Kathy McKee and supported at the national level by the Carrying Capacity Network ( CCN ) and Population-Environment Balance ( PEB ), and " Yes on 200 " led by Rusty Childress and supported at the national level by Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ).

Tanton founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR ) in 1979, the largest and best funded organization in the movement.

In a National Alert the CCN warned that organizations supporting numbers higher than 300, 000 undercut the movement, and they specifically criticize the Federation for American Immigration Reform and NumbersUSA.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform has spoken out in 2004 against the views of another reductionist leader, Virginia Abernethy, calling her views " repulsive separatist views ," and called on her to resign from the advisory board of Protect Arizona Now in Arizona.

* Federation for American Immigration Reform

He currently serves on the National Board of Advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.