Foreign - Russia/Soviet Union, 1893-1955

Form letter to "trade and labor unions of America" from Samuel Gompers, opposing U.S.-Russian Extradition Treaty and supporting Russian patriots, March 15, 1893, 3 pages; cablegrams from Gompers and AFL Executive Council congratulating Russian patriots on victory over the Czar, opposing socialist, anti-democratic forces, April-September 1917; correspondence between Gompers and Secretary of State re U.S. recognition of Soviet government, July 1923, 7 pages; press release by Chicago Trade Union Committee for a Delegation to Soviet Russia, December 8, 1925, 2 pages; statement by AFL Executive Council opposing unauthorized labor delegation to Soviet Union, June 1926, 3 pages; "Memorandum for Mr. Green" re meeting with House steering committee on restriction of imports of Soviet commodities produced by forced labor, February 2, 1931; "The American Trade Union Delegation to Russia," [c. 1942], 3 pages; reports to "all International Presidents of the AFL," from the AFL Free Trade Union Committee, including "Confidential: What Moscow Thinks of Us," text of Soviet Overseas Service broadcast re AFL convention, December 1948, 3 pages; "Statement by the Executive Council of the AFL" opposing Stockholm peace appeal, August 1950, 2 pages; similar statement re Soviet peace proposal, August 7, 1951, 2 pages; "Sklavenarbeit in Russland," 8 page typescript in German: letters commenting on AFL pamphlet re slave labor in Russia, n.d.; "Statement by the Executive Council of the AFL" rejecting Soviet bid for U.S. labor delegation visit, August 10, 1955, 3 pages; notes; clippings.