Nicaragua, 1986-1993

File — Box: 20, Folder: 8

Scope and Contents

Draft statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Nicaragua, February 1993; letter to Mazur from the Central American Peace and Democracy Watch, signed by John T. Joyce, president, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, and Charles S. Robb, former governor of Virginia, re need for observers to promote democracy, April 12, 1988; “The Central American Peace Accord: An Evaluation,” Report of an AFL-CIO Delegation to Central America, January 3-11, 1988, with cover sheet, “Talking Points: Why should Nicaragua be considered the country least in compliance with the Peace Accord”; memo to ILGWU regional directors and NYC managers alerting them about labor tours to Central America sponsored by affiliates of the communist World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), noting that AFL-CIO is affiliated with International Conferderation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), May 10, 1988, with attached memo from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland (1985) and statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on Relatons with ICFTU Affiliates (1985); speech by Alvin Guthrie, secretary general of the Nicaraguan Confederation of Trade Union Unity (CUS), at the League for Industrial Democracy’s Award Luncheon for John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees International Union, June 12, 1986; mailgram to Mazur listing endorsers of Prodemca Statement on Nicaragua, February 24, 1986; “Nicaragua’s Slow March to Communism,” by Joshua Muravchik, This World, winter 1986

Dates

1986-1993

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.