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Organized Labor in U.S. Endorses Eisenhower’s Middle East Doctrine

February 4, 1957
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The executive council of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, at its current session here, endorsed yesterday President Eisenhower’s Middle East Doctrine.

The AFL-CIO, however, noted that the Administration’s military-economic proposals aimed at counteracting Soviet penetration of the Middle East would not suffice to guarantee a stable peace. It asked the United States to take action to end colonialism and to take a number of other measures

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