Orrin Hatch: “Let me tell you, during this last cold war time, I had a lot to do with the ILO when I was chairman of the Labor…”

“Let me tell you, during this last cold war time, I had a lot to do with the ILO when I was chairman of the Labor Committee and ranking member there, and ever since, when our tripartite organization--Government, labor and business--saved this country and countries all around this world from the tyranny of totalitarianism, right at the ILO. I can remember one trip I made over there because Irving Brown called me. He was the head of our delegation. He was the International Vice President of the AFL-CIO, and in my opinion the strongest anti- Communist in the world at the time. He stopped the Communists from taking over the French docks. He went into Paris before the end of the Second World War--one of the most heroic figures I ever met in my life. And he led our delegation with the full support of labor, business, and Government, year after year. I know what the ILO has meant to this country and what it has meant to free trade unionism around the world and what it has meant to freedom.”