China Committee (AFL-CIO), 1989

File — Box: 8, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

Notice of organizational meeting, March 7, 1989; letter from Communications Workers of America (CWA) president Morton Bahr to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland noting that he’d asked Mazur to co-chair the AFL-CIO China Committee with him, and that he’d accepted, September 13, 1989; memos from Michele Briones to Mazur and Susan Cowell re AFL-CIO Committee on China meeting of July 11, 1989; talking points for meeting, July 6, 1989; memo from Mort Bahr re meeting, noting invitation to Tiananmen survivor Liang Heng, June 8, 1989; AFC-CIO News press release, ICFTU Report on Violations of Trade Union Rights in China (May-June 1989); ALF-CIO News press release, “Kirkland Calls for Actions Against China,” June 26, 1989; AFL-CIO News press release, “Remarks of Jim Baker, U.S. Workers’ Delegate to the ILO Conference,” June 26, 1989; AFL-CIO Statement on China by president Lane Kirkland, with cover letter to Mazur and other labor leaders from CWA president Morton Bahr, June 16, 1989; memos between Mazur and Bahr with drafts of statement on Tiananmen Square, “Tragedy in China,” October 1989; memos to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones re labor’s response to China’s human rights abuses, with minutes of August 31 AFL-CIO Committee on China meeting and summary of Lee Cheuk Yan’s (Clothing Workers Union of Hong Kong general secretary) visit to the United States; notices of August 31 and November 2 China Committee meeting; AFL-CIO Committee on China Report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, August 8, 1989; AFL-CIO Committee on China Suggested Speakers, 19 April 1989, with attached newspaper clippings, 1988; newspaper clippings compiled by the AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs re Tiananmen Square and related developments, including report by ICFTU, with cover letter to Mazur, June 30, 1989; “Testimonial to History: Tiananmen Square 1989, April 15 – June 4,” photo documentation with captions in English and Chinese, compiled by Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movements of China; “Echoes from Tiananmen,” Issue No. 1, June 15, 1989, compilation of press reports and original articles, published by Friends of Chinese Minzhu, Hong Kong Trade Union Education Centre, Hong Kong; program for Council on Foreign Relations luncheon, June 13, 1989, featuring Winston Lord, U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China 1985-May 1989, “China and America: Great Walls and Open Doors,” with attached handwritten notes by Mazur; Statement on China by Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, June 8, 1989; Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International Report of IFFTU mission to China, October 16-26, 1988, with newspaper clippings from South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, Financial Times, 1987-88

Dates

1989

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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