AFL-CIO-Cuba Committee, 1993

File — Box: 32, Folder: 11

Scope and Contents

Description of committee, established August 1, 1990; speech by Mazur accepting appointment to chair AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a Free China; memo from Elvie Franqui to Mazur congratulating him on his appointment as chair of the Cuba committee, warning of potential conflicts with AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), alliances with anti-worker business interests in Florida, September 15, 1993; memo listing members of the Cuba committee, August 16, 1993; letter from SEIU president John Sweeney to Mazur as chair of the Cuba committee, inviting him to speak to union’s Committee on International Affairs; description of activities of the AFL-CIO Cuba Project, March 25, 1993; Cuba Update, description of activities of the committee, July/August 1993; other Cuba committee reports, 1992 and 1993; Unidad newsletters in Spanish and English by the Cuban Telephone Workers Federation in Exile (Federacion de Trabajadores Telefonicas de Cuba en el Exilio), September/October 1993; Report of the AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a Free Cuba to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, February 1991 and August 1992; “The Cuban Democracy Act: One Year Later,” statement of Alexander F. Watson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, before the Committee on Foreign Relations, House of Representatives, November 18, 1993; excerpt from the International Labour Conference 80th Session, Geneva, re forced labor in Cuba, June 1993; draft AFL-CIO Statement on Cuba, faxed to Mazur for his approval, September 3, 1993; statement by President Clinton re former Cuban political prisoner, on AFL-CIO letterhead, August 6, 1993; press release, AFL-CIO News, “Stand Worth 30 Years of His Life, Says Ex-Political Prisoner,” August 9, 1993; synopsis of Radio Marti (Office of Cuba Broadcasting, U.S. Information Agency) 1993 Solidarity Day programming, addressed to AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) executive director William Doherty, September 22, 1993; letter to AIFLD from Republican Florida commissioner Pedro Reboredo praising support by labor, November 15, 1993; Bulletin of the Department of International Affairs, AFL-CIO, July-August 1993; newspaper clippings; copy of Time with cover story, “Castro’s Cuba: The End of the Dream,” December 6, 1993; handwritten notes by Mazur

Dates

1993

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

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