Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat
| Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat | |||
| Chinese name | |||
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| Traditional Chinese | 太平洋勞動會議秘書處 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 太平洋劳动会议秘书处 | ||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||
| Traditional Chinese | 太平洋職工秘書處 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 太平洋职工秘书处 | ||
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| Japanese name | |||
| Kanji | 太平洋労働組合書記局 | ||
| Russian name | |||
| Russian | Тихоокеанского секретариата профсоюзов | ||
| English name | |||
| English | Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat | ||
| French name | |||
| French | Secrétariat Syndical Pan-Pacifique | ||
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The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) was a regional subdivision of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU, commonly known as the Profintern), the trade union organization associated with the Communist International. Established in Hankow, China in May 1927, the PPTUS attempted to coordinate communist activity in the organized labor movement of China and the Pacific basin, including particularly Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and the United States.
The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) was established as the Asian and Pacific branch of the Red International of Trade Unions (RILU or Profintern), to coordinate radical trade union activities in China and the countries Pacific basin, which shared oceanic-based trade relations. The idea for a Pan-Pacific conference originated with Communists in the Australian trade union movement, who sought to emulate a previous conference of Pacific seamen and dock workers which had been held in Canton in June 1924.
A convention call was issued for a gathering to be held in Sydney, Australia on July 1, 1926, at under the auspices of the communist-led New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, but the Nationalist government of Stanley Bruce denied travel visas to the assembly's scheduled participants and the meeting was therefore postponed and moved to another location.
A second effort at organization would not follow until the following year, with the Profintern initially seeking a gathering at Canton In conjunction with May Day of 1927. Rapidly changing political events in China in the spring of 1927 had made both the time and the place impossible, however, and the decision was made to move to the safer ground of Hankow, immediately following the closure of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of China Hankow was selected owing to its place at the center of the Wuhan government of the Kuomintang, a revolutionary nationalist organization which was at the time briefly in alliance with the international Communist movement.
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