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or "Comintern"). The MWIU openly affiliated with TUUL. According to another source, MWIU decided against TUUL and decided instead to affiliate with the
Profintern's Red International of Transport Workers via an International Seamen and Harbors Workers Union (ISH), based in Hamburg, Germany.
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