GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: Gutierrez addresses workers 1954

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

September 24, 2008

Gutierrez addresses workers 1954

On April 29th, 1954 Gustavo Gutierrez addressed a group of workers employed in housing construction and staff members from the Ministries of Finance and Public Works. This is all the information I have regarding these pictures. Dr. Gutierrez was Minister of Finance at the time and was considered pro labor. He created legislation to protect labor as well as Cuban light industry by, among other means, raising tariffs against imports particularly those from the United States. However, he also supported private enterprise. While president of the "Junta Nacional de Economia," in a case where special interests wanted the government to give lands at no cost for the development of low income housing," la Ciudad Ferroviaria de Camagüey," he insisted on no government handouts but instead supported attractive loans to the real estate developers. For more informationplease see blog entry from January 2009, " Press Conference for Housing Construction (Lechuga), 1952." The Minister of Public Works, Dr. Jose Pardo Jimenez appears in the top photograph standing to the right of Dr. Gutiérrez.