Word: trabaja
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Died. Francisco Aguirre, 54, labor leader in pre-Castro Cuba, a onetime hotel workers organizer who as Labor Minister in the late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...