China Committee, 1990

Letter from Mazur to premier of China urging fair trials for detained trade unionists, December 14, 1990; letter from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland to Chinese ambassador to U.S., decrying “slaughter” at Tienanmen Square, urging release of pro-democracy prisoners, June 4, 1990; faxed memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones noting attached AAFLI report is not to be presented to the AFL-CIO Committee on China but rather ILG’s report should be, with copy of report prepared for the AFL-CIO Subcommittee on China by the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, “Foreign Investment in the People’s Republic of China – the U.S. Connection,” and list of leading U.S. companies investing in China, February 1990, with AAFLI resolution to be presented to AFL-CIO Committee on China, February 7; AFL-CIO Committee on China “Report on China since Tiananmen Square,” to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, February 1990; memo from Mazur to Bill Deery of the Deery Group noting authorship of Committee on China report; statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council re China, condemning Bush policy, February 1990; statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council, “A New China Policy,” May 1990; “Statement on United States-China Relations,” submitted by Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, June 25, 1990, before the Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, with attached article from the Nation, “Who Died in Beijing, and Why?” by Robin Munro, June 11, 1990; agenda for October 18, 1990, meeting of AFL-CIO Committee on China; list of attendees, including Li Jinghua and Zhao Hongliang, refugees from Tiananmen Square and Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation, and Winston Lord, U.S. ambassador to China; biographical sketches/resumes of Li, Zhao, and Lord; “Repression in China Since June 4, 1989,” an Asia Watch Report, September 28, 1990; cover memo from Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AFL-CIO) announcing launch of China Labor Notes newsletter, with several issues; letter from AFL-CIO president Kirkland to all affiliate union presidents noting plans to commemorate first anniversary of Tiananmen Square, with prospectus for Democracy for China Fund and cover memo, April 12, 1990; memo to Mazur from Michele Briones re contribution to China Fund, with attached memo from AFL-CIO re error in accounting, list of contributions by unions, July 1990; agenda of activities for Washington, D.C., rally commemorating first anniversary of Tiananmen Square, and sponsors, with list of Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Associations in major U.S. cities; faxed memo to Mazur from Briones re AFL-CIO meeting on China, planned demonstrations, with attached postcard to be sent to the government in Beijing protesting detention of pre-democracy workers, April 11, 1990; faxed memo to Brones from Hong Kong Clothing Industry Workers General Union with button designs, February 14, 1990; press release, “Democracy Tour to be Announced on Eve of Visit to Czechoslovakia by Chinese Democracy Leaders,” March 1, 1990, faxed to Mazur from the Deery Group; faxed memo to Mazur from the Asian-American Free Labor Institute with list of U.S. companies attempting to import temporary workers from China, March 27, 1990; Current History article, “Deteriorating Human Rights in China,” by James V. Feinerman, associate professor of law, Georgetown University, September 1990, with note by Mazur to send copy to China Committee; Political Science Quarterly article, “Contradictions in Communist Reform: China before 4 June 1989,” by Benedict Stavis, 1990; article from Libertarian Labor Review, summer 1991; newsletter of the Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, Across the Table, featuring article, “Hong Kong Labor Leader Speaks at ILGWU on Labor Activism in China,” Fall 1989 New York Times clipping re China one year after Tiananmen Square, April 15, 1990; other newspaper clippings