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Series II. Subject files [series]:
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI)Budget summary and details, 1990, with cover memo to officers from
administrative director re financial crisis, noting that APRI finances
were never based on a proper budgeting formula; letter to Mazur from
APRI president Norman Hill asking fro assistance in obtaining
contributions; letter to Mazur inviting ILGWU to send a prominent black
female representative to APRI 20th national conference for tribute
dinner to black trade union women, with reply from Mazur identifying
vice president Mattie Jackson, April 13, 1989; letter from APRI urging
boycott of Harvey Industries in Athens, TX, over striking Local 376 of
the Furniture Workers Division of the International Union of Electronic,
Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, February 22, 1989;
letter to Mazur from Hill asking him to write to Chemical Bank of New
York asking that it cease making loans to South African Minorco, with
attached fact sheet, February 6, 1989
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI)Letter to Mazur informing him of his election to the National Board of
the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Feb. 3, 1987; Annual Report 1986;
conference program, "Turning Back the Tide: Blacks and Labor in the 1984
Elections," annual conference of APRI, May 11-13, 1984; report of the
eighteenth national conference, May 7-10, 1987; speech by Mazur, May 8,
1987; memo reporting second part of conference, with list of ILGWU
delegates; reminder to Mazur from APRI president re list of
contributions by ILGWU locals, May 25, 1984; draft of APRI pamphlet re
the changing condition of workers, black workers, and the black-labor
alliance, soliciting comments by Mazur, August 19, 1987; proposal for
Africa Watch, to monitor human rights abuses by black African
governments, February 29, 1988; article by ILGWU assist. Pres. Gus Tyler
about A. Philip Randolph, n.d.
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) ConferenceText of speech by Mazur, April 13, 1987; conference announcement for
"Work in '87: Win in '88," eighteenth national conference at San
Francisco Hilton, A. Philip Randolph Institute
AT&TLetter to Mazur from AT&T re new administrative software developed in
cooperation with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(IBEW) and installed and maintained by the Communication Workers of
America (CWA), May 20, 1987; letter to New York Telephone Company about
a billing error, March 23, 1988
Abeles Schwartz AssociatesSee also NYC Garment District; see also New York City - 42nd St.
Redevelopment Project 1984 Letters from planning and development
consultants re NYC's industrial retention program; activity reports for
October and November 1983 re Chinatown Garment Industry; ideas for
discussion with Carol Ballamy re GIDC, Chinatown
Abrams, RobertILGWU campaign literature for Robert Abrams for U.S. Senator, in English,
Spanish, and Chinese, with list of polling places and cover letter to
Mazur, April 9, 1992; handwritten letter to Mazur from union member
thanking him for guidance in voting, with attached letter sent to
members from Mazur endorsing Abrams and local candidates, September 17,
1992; letters from Mazur to presidents of several other unions asking
them to sign a letter endorsing Abrams, with faxed reply from
Communication Workers of America president Morton Bahr suggesting a
change, July 1, 1991; letter signed by presidents of several unions
endorsing Abrams; proposed field organization for senor citizen vote,
June 23, 1992; letters from Abrams to Mazur thanking him for his
support, June 1991-September 1992; two drafts of Abrams speech to be
delivered before the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE),
written by Gus Tyler, with cover note from Tyler to Mazur, February 4
and 5, 1991; letter from Robert Abrams asking for early support, June
24, 1991; report of statewide poll for Senate race conducted by COPE,
July 8-14, 1991; copy of State of New York 1989 Election Law; memo to
Mazur from political consultant Ethan Geto summarizing strategy
discussed at meeting, need to form ad hoc labor committee for Abrams,
encourage public endorsement by Carol Bellamy to discourage run by
Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, February 1, 1991; list of
labor leaders supporting Abrams, with handwritten additions by Mazur;
letter from Abrams to Mazur thanking him for support in re-election as
Attorney General, December 11, 1990
AfricaSee also South Africa; see also Nigeria; see also Zimbabwe Letter to
Mazur from executive director of A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund
with draft outline and proposed budget for establishment of Africa Watch
to monitor the human rights situation in targeted African countries,
February 29, 1988; letter confirming scheduled meeting between Mazur and
Jean Michael Bokambo Yangouma, general secretary of the Congolese Labor
Confederation, first vice president of the Superior Council of the
Republic, and favorite to win election as prime minister or president,
January 9, 1992; Ditchley Foundation conference outline and subsequent
report, "Africa: Problems and Prospects. What Is Required in Terms of
Political Management, Development Policies and Relief Aid?" January
26-28, 1990; draft code of conduct for investment in South Africa in a
post-apartheid non-sanction environment, with cover letter to ILGWU
Director of International Affairs Michele Briones from the deputy
executive director of the AFL-CIO African-American Labor Center, July
17, 1992; handwritten notes re men's/boy's and women's/girl's clothing
manufacturers in South Africa, and number employed, n.d.; note from
Mazur to deputy executive director of the African-American Labor Center
assenting to extension of stay of Fisseha Tekie in Ethiopia, June 3,
1992; memo from African-American Labor Center noting that Sayed Mohamed
Rashid, president of the General Trade Union for Textiles, had been
elected president of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation, May 7, 1992;
letter to Michele Briones from national general secretary of free trade
unions of Burkina Faso (Organisation Nationale des Syndicats Libres),
thanking her and ILGWU for support of African trade unionists (English
translation and French original), November 30, 1994; memo to Mazur from
Briones re Norman Lewis's trip to Africa, October 27, 1986
Agreements, Greater Blousesee also ILGWU - Major Market Negotiations 1985 Supplemental agreement
between New York Skirt and Sportswear Association, Inc., Greater Blouse,
Skirt and Undergarment Association, Inc., and the Blouse Skirt and
Sportswear Workers Union, Local 23-25, ILGWU, Amalgamated Ladies'
Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10, ILGWU, and the ILGWU; press release re
groundbreaking agreement between NY undergarment industry and Local
62-32, providing for unpaid parental leave, 1987
AIDSLetter and flyer for emergency conference, "AIDS and Drugs in Manhattan,"
October 29
Air Filters, INC.Correspondence over jurisdictional organizing dispute at Air Filters
Inc., Lawn and Garden Division (formerly Superior Dust Bag Company),
Brooklyn, NY, between the ILGWU and the Hotel Employees & Restaurant
Employees International Union
Albright, Madeline, Center for National PolicyInvitation to Mazur from Albright to join the Center for National Policy
Board, September 23, 1991, with note from Evelyn Dubrow endorsing the
group, October 1991; invitation to Mazur from Albright to attend
Newsmaker luncheon, November 21, 1991
Amalgamated Bank of New York"America's Labor Bank." Letter to Mazur from ACTWU president Jack
Sheinkman as chairman of the board re federal charges of embezzlement
against former assistant vice president of bank, December 4, 1990;
routine correspondence
ACTWUSee also Speeches - Sheinkman, Jack 1992 Letter from Mazur to Sheinkman
re proposed merger of the two unions, January 13, 1995; agreement
between ACTWU and C. F. Hathaway Company with respect to the Waterville
facility, January 10, 1985; agreement between ACTWU and Hygiene
Industries of California, June 30, 1987; agreement between ACTWU and
Clothing Manufacturers Association, October 19, 1989, with cover letter
to Mazur, March 21, 1990; stipulation of settlement between ACTWU and
Clothing Manufacturers Association, October 1, 1990, with cover letter
to Mazur, October 22, 1990; settlement agreement between ILGWU and the
Jobbers Association of the Dress Industry, March 9, 1988, with cover
letter from Mazur to ACTWU, February 9, 1990; list of ACTWU contractors
and ILGWU manufacturers, with cover note to Mazur from Sheinkman asking
for discussion, June 28, 1989; letter from Mazur to Sheinkman re
decertified former ILGWU firm City Girl, Lodi, NJ, doing work
exclusively for ACTWU jobber Andiamo, asking to rectify, January 5,
1989; letter from Mazur to Sheinkman with draft agenda for 6th Joint
Conference with Zensen (Japanese trade organization) and suggestion by
Mazur for a roundtable discussion on the future of the global textile
and apparel industry, August 2, 1989; letter from Mazur and Sheinkman on
joint ILGWU/ACTWU stationery to the president of the Associated Actors
& Artists of America, asking for support of the Textile, Apparel and
Footwear Trade Act, August 16, 1990; memo to Mazur from exec asst James
Parrot outlining suggestions for speech at ACTWU June 4-8, 1990,
convention, including note that 1980s was decade of "Cowboy Capitalism,"
February 14, 1990; related correspondence; memo to Mazur from Parrott to
discuss with Sheinkman that unions should exchange information of
respective labor-management committees, January 24, 1990; letters from
Mazur to Sheinkman re production for Alfred Dunner through ILGWU shops,
asking for assistance in resolving work done for Dunner through
non-union shops, February 14, 1990 - April 1, 1991; press release,
"Statement on the National Healthcare Insurance Program Act by Jack
Sheinkman, president, ACTWU," March 6, 1991; Statement of ACTWU
president Jack Sheinkman to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on
Extension of Fast-Track Authority, April 18, 1991; letter from Mazur to
Sheinkman suggesting meeting to discuss GATT and trade bill, May 30,
1991; suggesting meeting to discuss FITITVCC matters, June 18, 1991; re
representation on ITGLWF, January 29, 1991; joint letter from Sheinkman
and Mazur to John Kelley, president of SEIU, inviting participation on a
Labor Advisory Committee to establish a United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, September 10, 1991; correspondence between Mazur and ACTWU
secretary-treasurer Arthur Loevy re dispute between ILGWU and Rainfair,
Racine, WI, with letter from ACTWU employer Fox Point Sportswear
refusing to accept work from Rainfair while dispute continues, October
1991; list of ACTWU General Executive Board members, March 1, 1993;
letter to Mazur from Sheinkman reminding him to make ILGWU's annual
$1,000 contribution to Economic Policy Council, March 31, 1992; letter
from NYC Central Labor Council to labor leaders re meeting on impact of
NAFTA and what labor can do about it, March 12, 1993; "partnership
vision" between ACTWU and Levi Strauss & Co., October 1993;
newspaper clippings re trade bill, etc.
ACTWUMemo from ILGWU president Mazur to ACTWU president Sheinkman re
Riverview/South Jersey contract work from Dunner, subcontracted to
non-union shops, November 3, 1988; letter to Mazur and Sheinkman from
John B. Hanley, senior economist at Wharton Economics, urging "Buy
American" public relations campaign against Japanese car imports, May
25, 1987; memo from Sheinkman re Dukakis presidential campaign meeting,
September 1988; letter from Sheinkman to Mazur re expenses pursuing
joint appeal of OSHA formaldehyde standard, requesting reimbursement for
half, May 13, 1988; memo to ILGWU exec asst Parrott with summary of
expenses incurred by ACTWU at Zensen (Japanese trade organization)
meeting, with attached memo from Parrott to Mazur, January 7, 1988;
clipping of articled from Journal of Commerce, August 22, 1988, re Bush
intention of following Reagan trade policies, with transmittal slip from
Sheinkman to Mazur
ACTWULetter to Sheinkman from ILGWU general secretary treasurer Irwin Solomon
re success of recent pooling of both unions' general funds for
investments, proposing pooling of health and welfare funds, with
attached financial documents, July 27, 1987; letter asking for support
for strikers, boycott of Juvenile Shoe, Aurora and Carthage, MO,
November 20, 1987; letter from recruitment firm soliciting applications
for organizers for ACTWU in California, Southeast, and Southwest, with
cover note to Mazur from ILGWU official, June 24, 1988; letters from
Sheinkman to president of ITGLWF re appointments of replacements to
Presidium and Executive Committee, questioning dues levy policy,
1987-88; press release announcing joint request by ACTWU and ILGWU for
review of OSHA formaldehyde regulations, December 2, 1987, with attached
press clippings and ILGWU brochure; In These Times article on organizing
success of ACTWU in Southeast, May 4-10, 1988; correspondence between
National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Television Playhouse,
producers, and Sheinkman re need to raise funds for production of film
about women in the early textile industry, "Lowell Fever," August
1986-April 1987; letter of recommendation from Sheinkman to Cornell ILR
admissions office, February 10, 1987; letter from Sheinkman to John T.
Joyce, president of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied
Craftsmen, declining invitation to join the Central America Peace and
Democracy Watch, explaining that Central Americans have the monitoring
of Arias Plan well in hand, noting affiliation of Watch with Contra
supporters, November 17, 1987; letters to Mazur from Sheinkman re
attached label on importer of men's tailored clothing, James Edmonds,
claiming inspection by ILGWU Local 102 employees, July 30 and August 3,
1987; letter to Mazur from Sheinkman re knitting vs. dying and finishing
operations at TPD plant in New Jersey, question of union jurisdiction,
February 2, 1988; letter to Mazur from Sheinkman re overseas work for
Ellen Tracy, potential to bring tailored jacket production back to the
U.S. in Twinmore or other ACTWU shops, January 12, 1987; letter to
Sheinkman from Australian apparel producer Dunlop Clothing, Footwear
& Textiles re Australian government deregulation policy, with
attached press release from the Ministry of Industry, Technology and
Commerce, December 15, 1986; newspaper clipping from Labor Unity, "ACTWU
Supports ILGWU Strike," December 1986; newspaper clipping from Women's
Wear Daily re Curon dispute, March 10, 1987; memo re strategy on textile
bill, December 1, 1986; correspondence and related material re Labor
Committee of Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission, November
1986-May 1988; letter to Mazur from Sheinkman noting that dispute with
Tahari, Ltd., has been resolved, need for planned strike obviated,
thanking him for support, September 24, 1986; letter from Sheinkman to
Edward Cleary, president, New York State AFL-CIO, supporting Mazur's
position that labor endorsement of congressional candidates be based
heavily on their vote on Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act,
August 20, 1986; memo to ACTWU vice presidents from president Murray H.
Finley and Sheinkman, urging final lobbying effort to override Reagan
veto of Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, with two attached
statements in case of victory or defeat, July 25, 1986; brochure, "ACTWU
Social Services: At Work and in the Community"; financial statement
showing dues payments of ILGWU and ACTWU to the Inter-American
Federation of Textile & Garment Workers, March 1, 1984- Sept. 30,
1985, with cover letter to Mazur from Sheinkman urging that the ILGWU
pay the same amount as the ACTWU, June 18, 1986; letter from Sheinkman
to NYC labor leaders in support of likely Democratic candidate for the
15th Congressional District, George Hirsch, challenging incumbent
Republican Bill Green, June 2, 1986; letter from Sheinkman to new
president of ITGLWF (?) re need for broader representation for North
America on Presidium, March 28, 1988; letter to Mazur from ILGWU
director of the New York State District re competitive organizing
efforts by ACTWU at Sanyo Fashion House, Oneonta, NY, with cover note
from Mazur to Sheinkman, requesting that he contact Mazur immediately,
April 20, 1987; letter from Mazur to Sheinkman asking for support for
Labor Resources Service being organized by Frontlash, n.d.; sample of
Political Action Committee deduction authorization form, with cover note
from Sheinkman to Mazur, September 17, 1986
ACTWU, Cirel FashionsLegal memos and other materials re Cirel Fashions, Inc. (141 W. 36th St.,
New York, NY), which had a collective bargaining agreement with ACTWU
Local 169, in Union City, NJ, and an agreement with ILGWU Local 105 in
Hazantown, arbitration issue; copies of financial audits, handwritten
ACTWUCopies of ledgers detailing audits of apparel contractors in Chinatown
(NY); note re evidence needed to support case before impartial chairman,
method of concealment, method of billing; statements by several
Chinatown contractors releasing J.N. Apparel from obligation to pay
union percentage to Local 23-25
Amalgamated Life Insurance (ALICO)See also ALICO; see also United Housing Foundation 1995 Original draft of
article re universal health insurance submitted to New York Times,
printed copy, and cover letter to Mazur from author Harvey Sigelbaum
(president, Amalgamated Life Insurance) noting Times edited article
without opportunity for review, September 22, 1988; personal and
confidential letter to Mazur from Sigelbaum comparing rates of life
insurance plans offered by AFL-CIO and Amalgamated Life Insurance, March
15, 1988; memo to Mazur from ILGWU VP Susan Cowell commenting on plan,
April 1, 1988
American Arbitration AssociationAnnual reports, minutes, and financial statements; summary of arbitration
awards, August 15, 1992; letter to Mazur acknowledging renewal of
membership, March 15, 1991; curriculum vitae of arbitrator Jesse Simons,
July 1989; letter from Mazur to AAA president expressing disappointment
that ILGWU was dropped from Board of Directors and Executive Committee,
March 30, 1988; letter to Mazur from AAA president informing him of his
nomination to Board of Directors, March 9, 1988; packet of press
clippings, with cover letter to Mazur; minutes of Executive Committee,
October 6, 1992
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)Report, "Liberty at Work: Expanding the Rights of Employees in America,"
1989, with distribution list; letter to Mazur re formation of National
Task Force on Civil Liberties in the Workplace, March 13, 1991
American Committees on Italian MigrationInvitation to Mazur to attend seminar on immigration, re pending
legislation (Simpson-Mazzoli bill) and the position of labor and
management on penalties for employers of illegal aliens, February 24,
1984; notice of San Remo Holiday Ball, honoring Jay Mazur as recipient
of 1988 Humanitarian Award
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME)Correspondence re Child Care Action Campaign, Textile and Apparel Trade
Act, list of major speakers at 20th convention
American Federation of TeachersSee also Speeches - Shanker, Albert, Memorial Service 1997 Letter to New
Hampshire Sen. John Durkin from AFT political director Rachelle Horowitz
expressing disgust at his pledge not to accept PAC money, pointing out
that he won his seat mainly through the support of the pooled resources
of working people, June 11, 1990; program for a Labor Salute to Amnesty
International, February 24, 1987, with attached statement by Sen. Paul
Sarbanes in Congressional Record of March 6, 1987, and cover letter from
AFT International Affairs Department director Joanne McFarland, March
24, 1987; correspondence and statement, "Education for Democracy," by
the Education for Democracy Project, asserting that democratic values
should be taught in schools, March 1987; letter to Mazur from AFT
president Albert Shanker asking for ILGWU to contribute to a public
relations campaign to dispel misperceptions about AFL-CIO's National
Endowment for Democracy and its assistance to trade unionists struggling
to create democratic systems in other countries, July 22, 1986; letter
to Mazur from Shanker re literacy project, January 27, 1987; letter from
Mazur to Shanker thanking him for support by AFT in trying to pass the
Textile and Apparel Trade Act, October 7, 1988
American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC)See also Textile & Apparel Trade Enforcement Act Letter from AFTAC to
Treasury Secretary James Baker III re failure to involve U.S. industry
and labor in the advisory process in international textile and apparel
trade negotiations, particularly recent agreements with Hong Kong and
Turkey, July 2, 1986; copy of check and correspondence re payment of
assessment toward AFTAC legal expenses against importer Yuri Fashions,
July 1986; handwritten notes by Mazur
American Friends of Haifa UniversityLetter to Mazur from American Friends of Haifa University re partnership
with Bank Leumi Trust Company of New York and its special new VISA
credit card that donates a percentage of every purchase to the
organization, August 17, 1987
American Israel Corporation (AMPAL)AMPAL Securities Corporation, a subsidiary of AMPAL - American Israel
Corporation, "Israel labor economy's investment arm around the world."
Letter to controller of AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department from AMPAL,
July 9, 1987; list of ILGWU 12% notes by local
American ORTLetters notifying Mazur of his renomination and reelection to Board of
Directors and Executive Committee; notices re national conference;
directory of officers; copies of checks from ILGWU to ORT; luncheon
agenda of American Labor ORT honoring ILGWU vice president Evelyn
Dubrow, with text of remarks by Mazur, September 23, 1992; related
correspondence; text of remarks by Mazur at Community Achievement Award
event honoring ILGWU secretary-treasurer Irwin Solomon, June 17,
American ORTCorrespondence re events with executives of ORT; fact sheet on
organization; letters to Mazur informing him of renomination and
reelection to AOF Board of Directors and Executive Committee, January 6,
1986, December 4, 1987, and January 29, 1988; minutes of annual luncheon
of American Labor ORT, April 7, 1988; memo re lease crisis at Bramson
ORT Technical Institute in New York; constitution and bylaws of World
ORT Union, with proposed changes, April 29, 1986; memo to Mazur from
ILGWU manager Sam Fine re proposal for Ed Schneider Memorial Fund,
questioning whether attached brochure was the honor they had in mind
(Edward Schneider Seminar Room at the ORT School of Engineering, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem); report on the upgrading of ORT's educational
program, 1985
American ORT, Israel TripCorrespondence relating to attendance by Mazur and ILGWU delegation at
World ORT Union Congress in Jerusalem; briefing letters from the
director general re recent trip to Latin America, plans for congress in
American Income Life InsuranceLetter to Mazur from Bernard Rapoport, CEO of American Income Life
Insurance (AIL), inviting him to join its Labor Advisory Board, with
attached annual report, February 26, 1987; routine correspondence
between American Income Life and Sol Chaikin as president of ILGWU,
1986; registration form for Mazur and wife for AIL- sponsored Alaskan
cruise, June 27-July 4, 1987; remarks of American Life CEO Rapoport as
Executive of the Year at the 20th anniversary luncheon of Joint Action
in Community Service, Inc., asserting that a strong labor movement is
essential to the free market system, April 28, 1987; remarks by Rapoport
to International Union of Chemical Workers, October 17, 1990, re
benefits of unionization; letter to Mazur from Rapoport agreeing to
contribute $5,000 to the Histadrut-Kupat Holim Emergency Fund, March 6,
1991; letter from Mazur thanking Rapoport for his public support of
legislation to ban permanent replacement of striking workers, February
27, 1991; correspondence between Mazur and Rapoport re conducting
weekend seminars for the Labor Advisory Board on labor issues,
April-May, 1988; letters to Mazur from AIL executive asking him to
facilitate selling product to ILGWU membership, August-November,
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)Correspondence re executive director Tom Dine, resigning over
controversial remarks
American Jewish CongressMemo to Chaikin criticizing AJC draft economic development plan for New
York City, noting lack of mention of apparel manufacturing sector, March
27, 1984; expanded critical comments; press release, "AJCongress Says No
Aid to Contras," March 125, 1986; list of pending social service
legislation endorsed by AJC, December 23, 1985; notice of Democratic
Heritage Award to president of American Federation of Musicians, August
15, 1983
American Swiss FoundationLetter listing U.S. Senators who participated in Young Leaders Conference
in last three years, soliciting nominations, n.d.
American Value InitiativeLetter to Mazur from UAW president Owen Bieber discussing results of
consumer attitude research conducted by Peter Hart Associates for
UAW-Big Three auto company committee, the Detroit Working Group of the
American Value Initiative, showing strong rejection of "Buy American"
messages based simply on patriotism; suggests forming coalition to
improve both image of American-made goods and actual quality, asks for
strict confidentiality until group is organized, December 4, 1990; memo
to Mazur from ILGWU VP Susan Cowell re briefing with Big Three auto
makers on Hart research, focus of ad campaign that would reinforce
public perception that quality is a problem and workers are to blame,
February 3, 1991
American Veterans CommitteeLetter to Mazur inviting him to attend the 40th Anniversary National
Convention at Unity House, May 1, 1984
Apparel Industry Partnershipsee also International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund 1994-1999
Report of the Apparel Industry Partnership, with cover letter from Mazur
to the Washington Post, May 21, 1997
Appel, ArtSee also Hotels, Convention Letter from Mazur to Robert Georgine,
president, Union Labor Life Insurance Company, re dismissal of Diplomat
Hotel convention manager Art Appel, July 1, 1991
Arnold and PorterSee also ILGWU - Unity House; see also ILGWU - National Retirement Fund -
Arnold & Porter; Legal consultants for ILGWU; memo re effect of
changes in taxation of lobbying activities, August 11, 1993; routine
AsiaSee also China; see also under AFL-CIO: Asian-American Free Labor
Institute (AAFLI) and Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)
Letters to Mazur from Kenneth R. Hutchison, executive director, AAFLI,
thanking him for sending labor representatives to founding convention of
Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union, summarizing successful
attendance despite harassment, January 6, 1995; re communication from
Histadrut re need to improve treatment of foreign workers in Israel,
November 15, 1995; cover letter with attached packet of articles from
Boston Globe on how American multinational corporations conduct business
in developing countries, July 25, 1994; summer 1994 issue of newsletter
APALA News with headline, "Politicians Step up Attack on Immigrant
Rights"; letter from Steven W. Mosher, director, Asian Studies,
Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political
Philosophy, to Ambassador Winston Lord, asst. secretary of state for
East Asia and the Pacific, asking for assistance in expediting visa for
Lu Jinghua, Chinese refugee, working in New York for ILGWU, July 13,
Asian American CaucusLetter to Mazur from Asian American Caucus asking for contribution to
voter video project, March 15, 1989
Atlantic Apparel Contractors AssociationLetters to Mazur and others from Arnold Delin, executive director,
Atlantic Apparel Contractors Association, September 12, 1994, re closure
of Pennsylvania firms Maurice Fashions, Inc.; re consolidation of Mared
Manufacturing Co. and Blue Ridge Sportswear, Inc.; re closure of Mary
Fashion Mfg. Co., Inc.; re closure of Avenue West Sportswear, Inc.; re
withdrawal of membership of Plains T-Shirt Co., Inc.
Atlantic Apparel Contractors AssociationNotices from union-shop Atlantic Apparel Contractors Association that the
following firms were no longer in business: Anmar, Atlantic Dress
Manufacturing (Williamstown, NJ), Beverly Blouse Co., Connie Blouse Co.
(Roseto, PA), Debbie Lee's, Kathy Fashions (Nuremberg, PA), Kelly
Sportswear (Mt. Pocono, PA), Mikero Fashions (Bangor, PA? October 21;
reinstated October 29), Northampton Fashions, Pennsylvania Garment Co.,
Iron Head (Coplay, PA); Samco Manufacturing Co (Wind Gap, PA), Sandra Jo
Sportswear; Josette Manufacturing Co. (Bethlehem, PA), Mar-Kris
Sportswear, All Seasons Sportswear; New Star Sportswear (Edwardsville,
PA), ILEX (Myerstown, PA); Lopiano Corporation t/a Quality
Manufacturing; H.B.I. Incorporated (Burlington, NJ), Seipstown
Manufacturing (Allentown, PA); Nazareth Manufacturing (Nazareth, PA),
Gaye Sportswear; Ashland Sportswear, Elisa Styles, In Transit Warehouse
Corp., Jans Sportswear Co., Scotty's Fashions Cutting, inc. (Ideal) (Pen
Argyl, PA); that Susan Fashions was dissolving and Alyssa Fashions
(Philadelphia) would be takings its place; that Winmar Fashions, Jim
Thorpe Casuals, B&R Sportswear (Laureldale, PA), Sparrow Cutting,
and Quality Sewing (Brownstown, PA) had resigned from the association;
that new firm, Ellajo Corp. (Nuremberg, PA), was joining the
association; letter from executive director Arnold Delin asking Mazur to
call a meeting of industry leaders to discuss "what is our future, if
any?" in light of defeat of override of Textile and Apparel Trade
Enforcement Act, position of administration allowing homework, etc.,
August 22; letter from Delin to Subcommittee on Labor Standards,
Committee on Education and Labor, opposing Labor Department relaxation
of ban on homework, September 30; letter from Delin re engineering
issue, December 22, 1986
Atlantic Council of the United StatesUnited States' member committee on the Atlantic Treaty Association,
formed in 1954 to promote solidarity among the nations of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Letter to Mazur from the president
and chairman of the Atlantic Council outlining its history and purpose,
inviting him to attend the 1991 General Assembly of the Council, March
14, 1991; agenda of Board of Directors meeting, September 8, 1988;
letter to Mazur urging attendance at December 6, 1990, board meeting,
discussion of projects, October 1, 1990; notice of National Conference,
with agenda, April 23, 1990; letter from Mazur to president of council,
tendering resignation for inability to participate fully and also
because of disagreement with council's support for fast-track trade
negotiation authority, April 19, 1991; occasional papers
Bakery, Confectionary and Tobacco Workers International
UnionLetter from Bakery Workers president to Council on Economic Priorities,
protesting its "outstanding performance" rating for Sara Lee in its
publication, "Shopping for a Better World," March 21, 1990, with cover
letter to Mazur, May 2; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott
with attached Bakery Workers report re leadership development, youth
involvement, and technological change in the workplace, "Meeting
Tomorrow's Challenges Today," Toronto, Canada, September 19
Bankruptcy CodeLong memo by Marcus Montgomery Wolfson, P.C., re recent amendments to
bankruptcy code, October 24, 1994
Baron Abramson CompanyMailgram from Mazur requesting that work by union firm Baron Abramson be
removed from nonunion Willow Glen Sportswear (Amsterdam, NY)
Benefit Funds, financial reponsibilitiessee also ILGWU Benefit Funds Speeches, "Trustee's Financial
Responsibilities in the New Economic Order," by Dr. Thomas J. Mackell,
Jr., senior vice president, Trust Company of the West, Long Island
Industrial Research Association, March 15, 1994; "The State of the
Unions and Their Benefit Porgrams," by Mackell, before the Educational
Conference of Health, Welfare and Pension Plans, April 12, 1994
Berinsky, BertFax to Mazur re death of ILGWU photographer, with attached (New York
Times?) obituary, October 3, 1991
Black Economic ProjectMemo proposing study by prominent economist, preferably black, to define
effect of recent national policies on black community, 1986; memo to
Mazur from assistant president Gus Tyler that half the funding for the
$25,000 project will come from the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the
NAACP, the National Urban League, and the National Council of Negro
Women, with the ILGWU responsible for shouldering the other half,
September 2, 1987; memo to Mazur and other sponsors from Columbia
University researcher John Jeffries re scope of research and tentative
timetable, January 27, 1987; four-paged, single-spaced letter from Gus
Tyler in response to Jeffries' request for outline of issues, asking
Jeffries to contact him when he receives the letter, copied to Mazur and
other sponsors, April 6, 1987; memo to Mazur from Tyler re unhappiness
about long delay in progress on the project, request to Jeffries for
action, to produce an introductory chapter, outline, and timetable,
March 23, 1988
Bradley, Senator BillLetter from Mazur to Bradley re Textile, Apparel and Footwear bill,
discussing trade, GATT, MFA, December 28, 1988
Brooklyn Army Terminal Day Care Center"A Day Care Center in the Brooklyn Army Terminal: Current and Potential
Demand," prepared by the ILGWU with the cooperation of the Public
Development Corporation, December 6, 1990; memo to Mazur from Susan
Cowell re Brooklyn Army Terminal Day Care Center, noting that the newly
renovated building is well suited and would serve many ILGWU members in
an area with a severe shortage of child care, February 6, 1991; similar
memo to Mazur from Cowell, December 16, 1990; letter from Mazur to NYC
mayor Dinkins asking for support from the Public Development Corporation
and cooperation by other city agencies to facilitate child care project,
October 29, 1990; letter from NYC mayor Dinkins noting that agencies
will meet with ILGWU, November 29, 1990;
Bronx Economic Development Task Force Report"Walker Street Site: Use Report Prepared for the Civic Centre Committee
City of New York Community Board #1 by Anschuetz, Christidis &
Lauster," 1983, with cover letter to Mazur from the architects offering
similar services in the Bronx, May 20, 1992; memo from ILGWU exec asst
James Parrott commenting on Bronx Economic Development Task Force Draft
Recommendations, December 11, 1989; fact sheet on apparel manufacturing
employment in the Bronx
CCNY InternsMemo to Mazur re interns for ILGWU from City College of the City
University of New York (CCNY) under the Sol C. Chaikin Fund for Labor
Studies at CCNY, September 14, 1994
Calvin KleinClipping from NY Newsday re sale of jeans division, 2/11/94; list of
bills issued as result of audit, December 9, 1994
Campaign for New PrioritiesLetter to Mazur inviting him to join organization dedicated to reordering
federal budget away from defense assistance to Europe and Japan and
reinvestment of money on domestic programs, signed by mayor of Boston
and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the president of the
National Education Association, and Donna Shalala, March 16, 1992; list
of endorsing organizations
Capriotti, DanMaterials re ILGWU job applicant: letters of recommendation from Rep.
Frank Pallone, Jr. (3rd CD, NJ), New Jersey Environmental Federation,
Carey, Hugh L.Biography of the 51st governor of New York State; letter to former NY
Governor Carey expressing shock at association with Frank Lorenzo, March
15, 1994
Caribbean Offshoring Subsidiessee also Trade ILGWU press release condemning U.S. government subsidies
of American firms relocating to Caribbean nations, exporting U.S. jobs,
September 30, 1992; column by Mazur, "The Trade AID Fiasco," condemning
giving $1 billion in taxpayer money to firms to move production out of
U.S., October 21, 1992
Catholic Community ServicesLetter to Mazur from executive director of Catholic Community Services
Central Office, Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, re meeting with Joe Danahy
director, ILGWU Department of Organization & Field Services, January
7, 1987
Census EnumerationMemo from ILGWU exec asst Parrott to Mazur re comparison of census
figures for 1980 vs 1988 showing increase in number of Americans living
below the poverty level, January 18, 1990; memo to Mazur expressing
concern about plans for combining all Asians into one category in 1990
census, dated January 5, 1987 (stamped received January 8, 1988); Daily
News article re Commerce Dept. report on number of Asian-owned
businesses in Manhattan in 1987, likely overcount of American Indian
(Native American)-owned businesses, with cover note to Mazur from exec
asst James Parrott observing likely significant undercount of
Asian-owned businesses, need to challenge methodology, August 2, 1991;
newspaper clippings from New York Times re growth of Asian population
nationally, February 24, 1991, re diversity of Asian population
hindering influence, June 25, 1989
Center for Labor and Industrial Relations (New York Institute of
Technology)Article by Jay Mazur, "Labor Relations: Will We Survive the 1990's?" in
spring 1990 Bulletin of the Center for Labor and Industrial Relations,
School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, based on speech
delivered at conference of same name; conference agenda, held February
15-20, 1990
Center for Labor Management Policy Studies (CUNY)Proposal for Funding the Gompers Union Leadership Award Program of the
Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies at the City University (of
New York) Graduate School, describing history of the award, memo asking
for contribution by AFL-CIO in funding the Samuel Gompers Award,
threatened with elimination through budget cut by the City University of
New York (CUNY) and State University of New York (SUNY), July 26, 1991;
letter from Mazur to UFT president Sandra Feldman urging contribution to
Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, January 29, 1991; related
correspondence; annual reports and meeting agendas; book proposals by
deputy director Stephen Sleigh, American Workers in the World Economy,
February 25, 1992, and On Deadline: Labor Relations in Newspaper
Publishing, April 1991; letter to Mazur from center director Victor
Gotbaum asking for reference for award nominee, March 20, 1991; detailed
announcement of center's conference, "Skill Based Automation - Work
Technology and Competitiveness in American and European Organizations,"
May 23, 1991; announcement of center's conference on South African
Labor-Management Relations, with cover letters to Mazur from Gotbaum
asking him to chair a panel and reply from Mazur, with notation,
"cancelled," December 19, 1989, and March 23, 1990; copy of article from
Harvard Educational Review, "So We Can Use Our Own Names, and Write the
Laws by Which We Live: Educating the New U.S. Labor Force," by Collins,
Balmuth, and Jean, CUNY, November 1989; report for the Center for
Labor-Management Policy Studies, "Reaching for Their Rights: Asian
Workers in New York City," by May Ying Chen, assistant education
director, ILGWU Local 23-25, October 17, 1989; agenda, Advisory Board
meeting, October 19, 1989; letters to Mazur from Gotbaum updating him
center activities, August 31-Sept.13, 1989
Center for Migration StudiesSee also Trilateral Commission 1993 Speech by Mazur before the CMS Silver
Anniversary Gala upon his receipt of the CMS Immigration Achievement
Award, October 28, 1989; fax of program; printed program; letter
informing Mazur of his award, July 18, 1989; CMS publications list;
invoices for program ads; copy of International Migration Review 1979,
Center for Migration Studies
Center for Public IntegrityNonprofit watchdog organization researching ethics in government. Senate
testimony by center executive director Charles Lewis, December 15, 1992,
re conflict of interest among presidential appointees, how
human-rights-abusing nations hire former U.S. government officials to
serve as lobbyists for them in Washington; Senate testimony by Lewis,
March 28, 1991, re how excess campaign funds are spent by members of
Congress; Senate testimony by Lewis, September 27, 1990, re
revolving-door phenomenon at the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative; letter noting project, "The Selling of NAFTA," examining
the manipulation of the decision-making process in Washington, December
9, 1992; letter from Mazur with copy of contribution check, January 15,
1993; report, "For Their Eyes Only: How Presidential Appointees Treat
Public Documents as Personal Property," with attached article by
Associated Press about the report, and cover letter to Mazur, June 18,
1992; letter to Mazur updating activities, noting that the center has
become a source of background information for news organizations,
December 30, 1993; newspaper clippings
Central Americasee also Kamberis, Harry Newspaper clippings compiled into "Press
Commentaries on Central American Peace Accord," #1 and #2, with cover
letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO director of international affairs noting
initiation of clipping service; copy of Foreign Affairs article, "The
Choice in Central America," Fall 1987; Statement by the AFL-CIO
Executive Council on Central America and Panama, February 1990; letter
to Mazur from Sen. Edward Kennedy re Salvadoran refugees, legislation
blocking deportation, February 12, 1988; flyer for rally and march on
Washington for justice and peace in Central America and Southern Africa,
April 25, 1987; newsletter by Central American Peace and Democracy
Watch, with summary report of delegation to Nicaragua and El Salvador,
"Observations on the Implementation of the Central American Peace
Process," Gov. Charles S. Robb, January 4, 1988; newsletter, American
Institute for Free Labor Development Briefs re El Salvador, April 15,
1986; letter from the New York Area Labor Committee in Support of
Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador, with list of Steering
Committee, August 19, 1985
Central Labor UnionLetter to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland from the president of the
Freeport, Illinois, Central Labor Union, expressing opposition to merger
with other AFL-CIO central labor unions, October 14, 1987
Chaikin and ChaikinList of annual retainer fees, 1988-89; analysis of legal fees for 1988
and 1989; invoices; minutes of meeting of stockholders and board of
directors of Local 91 Realty Corporation, August 19, 1986 and July 21,
1987; letters re Dino Manufacturing Company, April 28, 1986; Mutual
Development Houses, December 6, 1986; proposal to act as collection
attorney for ILGWU National Retirement Fund, Health Services Plan and
Health and Welfare Funds, October 24, 1983; legal memorandum to Eric B.
Chaikin from Gary C. Cooke re rejection of collective bargaining
agreements under bankruptcy code, with copy of relevant section of the
code, n.d.
Chaikin, RosalindHoliday greeting card to Mazur and wife noting invitation to presidential
inaugural, decision not to go, December 27, 1992
Child CareSee also Chinatown Day Care Center Letter from Rep. Mario Biaggi
(D.-N.Y.) asking for support for his On-Site Child Care Privatization
Act (H.R. 541), providing a tax credit to businesses undertaking child
care operations for their employees, with copy of bill and Congressional
Record transcript of introduction, February 13, 1987; press release by
ILGWU Local 23-25 (Blouse, Skirt and Sportswear Workers Union), "Union
Concerned about Children in Shops, Pushes for Child Care," June 12, 1990
(with handwritten note: for Doris Wooten)
Child Care Action CampaignLetters from Gerald W. McEntee, international president, AFSCME, to other
union leaders and congressmen inviting them to a fundraising event in
Washington, D.C., August 9, 1993; notice and proposed agenda for May 10,
1993 board meeting, attached policy statement and action plan, "Child
Care and Education: The Critical Connection"; minutes of board meeting,
November 18, 1993; background materials from recent Executive Committee
meetings, 1994
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC)Agendas, minutes, and related documents for Executive Committee meetings,
including memos from executive director re status of programs, staffing,
budget, financial statements
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC)Minutes of Executive Committee and board meetings; memo re Child Care Tax
Credit Outreach Campaign; letter to Mazur from new president Stolley
asking him to co-chair the Development Committee, with descriptions of
all committees, December 17, 1991
Child Care Action Campaign, Spring Board Meeting,
AprilAgenda and related materials of April 26 meeting; memo re cancellation of
buffet supper due to citywide strike of apartment building personnel,
April 22, 1991
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC)Draft mission statements, January 18, 1990; newsletter, ChildCare
ActioNews, re Family Support Act, May - June 1990; report of CCAC State
Financing Alternatives Project, July 24, 1990; packet of materials for
board meetings, including 1991 budget and program plans, with attached
minutes of December 11, 1990, Executive Committee meeting
Child Care Action CampaignFamily Matters Survey results, including summary analysis, questionnaire,
and extensive handwritten comments by participants, with attached memo,
May 17, 1989; trends report sent to Secy. of Labor Elizabeth Dole, March
1989; draft of letter from president of CCAC to NY Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan thanking him for support, requesting meeting, January 1989,
with cover letter to Mazur asking him to attend; final letter to
Moynihan, February 1989; newsletter, ChildCare ActioNews, featuring
cover article by Mazur, "I'm Stickin' to the Union," January-February
1989; newsletter, AFL-CIO Reviews the Issues, "Child Care for Working
Families," excerpted from testimony before Senate Finance Committee by
AFSCME president Gerald W. McEntee; newspaper clippings
Child Care Action Campaign, Annual Board Meeting,
SeptemberDirectory of board members; memo re annual benefit, to honor media
supporters, and annual board meeting, May 19, 1989; awards program with
list of auction items, benefactors, board members, and media honorees,
September 17, 1989; list of fundraiser honoree list since 1985; memo to
Mazur re points to raise at development committee and board meetings,
September 14, 1989; list of ILGWU contributions to CCAC from September
1988; handwritten notes by Mazur
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC), Board Meeting,
SpringAgenda and related materials; newspaper clippings
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC), Finance and Development
CommitteeFinance & Development Committee minutes, January 30, 1989; proposal
and budget for National Advisory Panel; list of major contributors in
1988; operating budget, 1989; letter to Mazur from chair of finance and
development committee re personal background as working person, not
socialite fundraiser, March 27, 1989; letter from Mazur and Gerald W.
McEntee, president AFSCME, to president of United Brotherhood of
Carpenters, asking for contribution, June 26, 1989, with attached list
of other labor leader recipients, noting responses; memo from CCAC
president re 1989 spring board meeting and supper at her home for
informal discussion the evening before, with list of committee
assignments, March 10, 1989; agenda, August 24, 1990; union solicitation
letters, November 2, 1990; memo from Mazur and co-chair to CCAC board
members re development efforts, September 4, 1990; agenda of April 23,
1991, meeting; financial statements and independent auditor's report,
December 31, 1990 and 1989; Management Report, December 31, 1990;
minutes of April 22, 1991, meeting, with attached list of 1989 and 1990
union contributions; agenda of January 22, 1992, meeting with attached
list of 1990 and 1991 corporate and foundations contributions, financial
statement ending December 31, 1991, and draft FY92 operating budget;
memo from Mazur and co-chair to Executive Committee reporting on
development committee meeting of January 22, 1992; memo from Mazur and
co-chair to board re fiscal year 1991 fundraising, November 4, 1992;
proposal by Mal Warwick & Associates for direct mail membership
campaign, with cover letter to Development Committee, January 16, 1992;
handwritten notes by Mazur
Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC)Agenda for annual meeting, Nov. 7, 1988; minutes of board meeting, March
16, 1988; proposed program plan and budget for 1989; financial report
for the month ending September 30, 1988; letter to Mazur from president
Elinor Guggenheimer thanking him for contribution, May 21, 1987
Child LaborLetter to Mazur from Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, founder of the Robert Kennedy
Memorial Center for Human Rights, re Global March Against Child Labor,
May 12, 1998; memo to Mazur from UNITE international relations director
Michele Briones re march, May 19
Child Labor
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)Letter to Mazur acknowledging ILGWU as supporting advocate member of the
Child Welfare League of America, January 9, 1986; summary and
evaluations of first biennial assembly, with letter discussing
resolutions adopted, April 1, 1987; letter from Rep. Mario Biaggi
(D.-N.Y.) asking for support for his On-Site Child Care Privatization
Act (H.R. 541), providing a tax credit to businesses undertaking child
care operations for their employees, with copy of bill and Congressional
Record transcript of introduction, February 13, 1987; booklet for 1989
National Conference, "Children '89: The First 100 Days: A Children's
Initiative for President Bush and the 101st Congress"
ChinaInvitation to Mazur to be part of a business management delegation to
visit the People's Republic of China, sponsored by the Citizen
Ambassador Program of People to People International, April 4, 1995;
memo from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones
suggesting that U.S. firms doing business in China, such as Liz
Claiborne, exert pressure on government to release dissident Harry Wu,
August 21, 1995; letter from AFL-CIO international affairs director
Charles D. Grey to trade unionists urging boycott of United Nations
World Women's Conference, to be held in Beijing, to protest China's
abuses against women workers, October 31, 1994; letter to Mazur from the
U.S.-Asia Law Institute asking if he would be interested in joining a
delegation to help draft new labor law for China, with cover memo to
Mazur from vp Susan Cowell, noting decline of invitation under current
status of nonrecognition of labor unioins, December 8, 1994; China
Labour Bulletin by Han Dong-fang stating position against the ACFTU,
December 1994; China Labor Notes (AFL-CIO newsletter), February/March
issue; memo from the assistant U.S. Trade Representative to Advisory
Committee members re public comments on China accession to the GATT and
WTO (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, World Trade Organization),
June 23, 1994, with attached Federal Register notice and request for
comments; statement on the labor movement in China, by Jay Mazur, Voice
of America, September 5, 1994; newspaper clippings
ChinaMemo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re
observations on trip to PRC and Hong Kong, noting loss of central
control by government, September 9, 1993; draft of letter by ILGWU vp
and legislative director Evelyn Dubrow to members of the Senate Foreign
Affairs Subcommittee on International Operations (list attached) urging
establishment of a Radio Free Asia, March 23, 1993; letters from Dubrow
to members of Senate and House urging support for United States-China
Act of 1992, establishing stricter requirements for renewal of Most
Favored Nation status, July 1992; statement by the AFL-CIO Executive
Council on U.S. China Policy, urging revocation of Most Favored Nation
status and other trade sanctions and asserting that capitalism is not
the sole precondition of democracy, February 1993; similar statement by
AFL-CIO Executive Council, August 1992; report of RENGO (Japanese Trade
Union Confederation) mission to China, December 27, 1990, related
correspondence re AFL-CIO position, attached clippings from Hong Kong
newspapers re Chinese repression of trade unions; letter to Mazur from
the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars inviting him
to speak at rally during visit by Li Peng to U.N., January 24, 1992;
invitation from Democratic Socialists for rally at U.N. protesting
repression in China, January 24, 1992, with attached memo to Mazur re
his speech at rally and Chinese-language flyer from the Church of New
York; AFL-CIO Subcommittee on China agenda, January 23, 1992; letter
from former president Jimmy Carter welcoming Chinese dissidents Li Lin
and Li Zhi to U.S., January 8, 1992; Statement of Li Lin and Li Zhi,
Former Chinese Political Prisoners before congressional committee, n.d.,
with attached biographies; resolution submitted by ILGWU at AFL-CIO
convention, October 1993; "Incident in Beijing Airport," by Lu Jinghua,
June 28, 1993; National Affairs articles and newspaper clippings re
worker rights, official unions, prison labor, child labor, "toycott,"
Hong Kong, December 1992-January 1992; AFL-CIO Asian-American Free Labor
Institute Chinese Labor Notes newsletters, January 1992-August 1993;
ILGWU press release, "Chinese-Born Medical Student and North Carolina MS
Candidate Receive First-Ever 'Dubrow Post-Graduate Scholarships' for
Public Service: Awards Aid Two Garment Workers' Daughters Who Plan
Careers Helping Those in Need," September 8, 1993; correspondence
between ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones, staff,
and creator of video "Project for Tiananmen Square," including script,
June-July 1992; newspaper clippings
ChinaLetter from Mazur to President Bush expressing concern for imprisoned
dissident Wang Juntao, August 28, with cover letter to director of
Committee to End the Chinese Gulag; letter to Mazur from the director of
the U.S. Department of State Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs
assuring him that the Bush administration shares his concern for Wang
Juntao, with attached statement by assistant secretary/deputy spokesman
Richard Boucher expressing said concern, September 18, 1991; letter from
United Steelworkers of America to members of House and Senate, opposing
Most Favored Nation status, noting mistreatment of U.S. workers by new
Chinese owners of Phoenix Steel in Claymont, Delaware, with cover letter
to Mazur, July 8 and August 14; first annual report of the U.S - Japan
Structural Impediments Initiative, May 22, with cover letter from the
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to the Policy Advisory
Committee; material related to Solidarity Day
China, Han Dong FangSee also China - Workers Autonomous Federation of China Article by Han
Dongfang, "The Plight of China's Workers," in Freedom Review, vol 27,
nos 5/6; U.S Apparel Industry Partnership code of conduct, Nike Company
code of conduct, in English and Chinese; related e-mail correspondence;
article from the Far Eastern Economic Review, June 16, 1997; transcript
of Jim Lehrer NewsHour interview with Han Dongfang at Hong Kong
commemoration of Tiananmen Square massacre, noting that dissidents in
Hong Kong must prepare to go back to jail for offending government, June
4, 1997; interview with Han by Multinational Monitor, June; other
downloaded articles
China, Han Dong Fang, Jingyun ChenCorrespondence re Han Dongfang's wife, Jungyun Chen, and efforts to
reunite her with him
China, Han Dong FangSee also China - Workers Autonomous Federation of China
China, Han Dong FangCopies of checks from ILGWU to pay for medical treatment for Han Dongfang
and telephone and travel expenses of supporters; letters to Chinese
government officials protesting treatment of Han Dongfang; related
correspondence; newspaper clippings
China, Han Dong FangSee also China - Workers Autonomous Federation of China China Labor Notes
newsletters re "China's Lech Walesa," July 1990, continuing protest,
October 1992; "Urgent Appeal from Han Dongfang: Chinese Government
Forces its Lawful Citizen out of China," August 14, 1993, with attached
faxed appeal from Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions to help Han
Dongfang return to China, August 16, 1993, memo to Mazur re Han
Dongfang, November 16, 1993; handwritten note "Rush" by Mazur, with
attached newspaper clippings, South China Morning Post, August 15 and
16, 1993; personal thank-you cards handwritten from Han Dongfang to
Mazur and Michele Briones, June 25, 1993; press release from Asia Watch,
"Han Dongfang Freed from Prison," April 30, 1991; AFL-CIO News press
release, "AFL-CIO Denounces China's Expulsion of Labor Activist and
Calls on U.S. Government to Oppose Beijing Olympic Bid," August 18,
1993; New York Times clippings
China, Han Dong FangSee also China - Joy Lewis 1990-1994 Transcript of article from World
Journal, December 8, 1992; copies of checks from ILGWU to pay for
medical treatment and furniture rentals for Han Dongfang; drafts of
leaflet supporting Han Dongfang; letters to Mazur and other ILGWU
officials from Joy Lewis updating re Han Dongfang; copy of Tom Kahn
Labor and Human Rights Award certificate from Social Democrats, USA, to
Han Dongfang, May 5, 1992; newspaper clippings
China, Han Dong FangPress releases from Asia Watch we Han Dongfang's release from prison,
April 30, 1991; World Journal description of Han's medical condition,
June 9, 1991; letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland need
to link renewal of Most Favored Nation status with treatment of Han and
other dissidents, May 10, 1991; mermo to Mazur from ILGWU international
relations director Michele Briones re harsh (possibly death) sentences
for WAF workers, as compared to light sentences for students, need for
unions to build public opinion to save Han Dongfang's life, December 18,
1990; letter from Briones to Trini Leung, Hong Kong Trade Education
Centre re situation in China, December 12, 1990; related memo for files;
newspaper clippings
China, Lu Jinghua
China, Lu Jinghua
China, ToycottCorrespondence and flyers related to boycott of toys made in China;
sponsored by AFL-CIO and Frontlash, Youth and Labor Working Together
China, U.N. Conference on WomenMaterials related to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women,
held in Beijing; report of official U.S Preparatory Meeting for the U.N.
Fourth World Conference (convened by the U.S. Department of State and
others), April 22, 1994; related materials: conference program; "A
Working Women's Guide to Her Job Rights," U.S. Department of Labor
Women's Bureau, August 1992; Women's Bureau fact sheets, Facts on
Working Women, 1993; printed U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (1989, reprinted 1993); letter
from Mazur to U.N. secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali expressing
dismay over the resistance against the NGO Forum on Women in obtaining
facilities in Beijing for their participation in the U.N. conference;
reply from U.N. chief of staff Jean-Claude Ame noting quiet diplomatic
efforts to resolve the issue, May 22-31, 1995; correspondence with the
International Textile, Garment & Leather Worker's Federation and the
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) re boycott of
the conference, May 1995; newspaper clippings
China, Committee on China (AFL-CIO)Agenda, minutes, and related materials for meeting of January 23, 1992,
re forced labor; biographical description and statement of brothers Li
Lin and Li Zhi; letter from President Carter welcoming the Li borthers
to the U.S., January 8, 1992; AFL-CIO Committee on China "Report on
China since Tiananmen Square," delivered to the Executive Council on
February 20, 1990; handwritten notes
China CommitteeSee also Committee on China - Report 1990 Urgent memo to Mazur and vp
Susan Cowell from ILGWU International Relations Director Michele Briones
re AFL-CIO Committee Report on China noting that she disagreed with
draft, recommending inclusion of an alternative writeup of presentation
by representative from Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation; first and
second draft reports of October 18, 1990, meeting and report to the
AFL-CIO Executive Council; final draft (?) of Subcommittee on China
Report to the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, February 1991; draft
statements by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on China, February 1991;
Statement on United States-China Trade Relations Submitted by Jay Mazur,
President, ILGWU, June 19, 1991, before the Subcommittee on Trade,
Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives; statement by
Mark A. Anderson, assistant director, Department of Economic Research,
AFL-CIO, before the House subcommittee on trade, on Most Favored Nation
Status for the People's Republic of China, June 12, 1991, with attached
AFL-CIO special report, "Forced Labor in China," October 1990; statement
by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on "Toycott": Opposing China's Export
of Prison-Made Goods, May 8, 1991; letter from Mazur to Chinese
government official, expressing dismay at fire at Zing Ye Raincoat
Factory in Guangdong province, in which 80 workers were burned to death
because of the management's practice of locking all the exits, comparing
it to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire that killed workers under similar
circumstances but led to government-mandated industrial safety reforms,
urging Chinese government do the same, July 29, 1991; letter from Mazur
to Sir David Wilson, governor of Hong Kong, opposing proposed new law,
the Trade Description Bill, which would allow partially knitted items
from Hong Kong to be linked and finished elsewhere and still retain the
"Made in Hong Kong" label, warning that since these would most likely be
finished by prison labor in China, the ILGWU would oppose imports of
these products to the U.S., July 11, 1991; letter to Mazur from
secretary-treasurer of Food and Allied Service Trades re Democracy for
China Fund, July 3, 1991, with attached fact sheets; article, "Prospects
and Dilemmas of Chinese Workers," by Ivan D. London, Miriam London, and
Ta-ling Lee, in Workers under Communism, July 19, 1991; letter from the
Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, inviting
Jinghua Lu of the Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation to appear as
guest, June 20, 1991; copies of newsletter, China Labor Notes, an update
on events In the PRC by the Asian-American Free Labor Institute/AFL-CIO;
clipping from Newsweek
China, Committee to End the Chinese GulagCover letter to Mazur from director of the Gulag Committee, welcoming him
as a member, noting effectiveness of raising issue of prisoners when
traveling to China, noting enclosed materials: report by the Gulag
Committee, "Workers and Peasants Imprisoned by the Chinese Government,"
profiling individual prisoners, July 8, 1991; report, "Rough Justice in
Beijing: Punishing the 'Black Hands' of Tiananmen Square," by Asia
Watch, a committee of Human Rights Watch, January 27, 1991; New York
Times clipping, "The Prisoner," profiling Wei Jingsheng, March 15, 1991;
list of members of the Gulag Committee as of July 18, 1991
China, Lewis, JoySee also Chnia - Han Dongfang 1992 Resume of Joy Chen Yu Lewis of Asia
Watch (Human Rights Watch); notes by Lewis from a meeting with AFFLI
(AFL-CIO Asian-American Free Labor Institute?) representative Mark
Hankin re projects documenting repression of Chinese workers, September
4, 1991; related correspondence
China, CorrespondenceLetter to N.Y. Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, from
Rep. Gerald Solomon noting that House of Representatives approved his
resolution denying Most Favored Nation status to China, with attached
newspaper clipping, October 22, 1990; letter and materials from Hong
Kong Trade Union Education Centre, July 21, 1990; letter from
Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS), formed
in reponse to the Tiananmen Square killings, July 18; draft of letter by
AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland to PRC ambassador to the U.N. on first
anniversary of Tienanmen Square, calling for release of Han Dongfang and
all other imprisoned unionists, with cover letter from ILGWU
international relations director Michele Briones, May 23; memos to Mazur
from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell and others re Workers Autonomous Federation
of China, with background sheet, May 12, 16 and 17; correspondence re
commemoration activities for first anniversary of Tiananmen Square
China CommitteeLetter from Mazur to premier of China urging fair trials for detained
trade unionists, December 14, 1990; letter from AFL-CIO president Lane
Kirkland to Chinese ambassador to U.S., decrying "slaughter" at
Tienanmen Square, urging release of pro-democracy prisoners, June 4,
1990; faxed memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director
Michele Briones noting attached AAFLI report is not to be presented to
the AFL-CIO Committee on China but rather ILG's report should be, with
copy of report prepared for the AFL-CIO Subcommittee on China by the
Asian-American Free Labor Institute, "Foreign Investment in the People's
Republic of China - the U.S. Connection," and list of leading U.S.
companies investing in China, February 1990, with AAFLI resolution to be
presented to AFL-CIO Committee on China, February 7; AFL-CIO Committee
on China "Report on China since Tiananmen Square," to the AFL-CIO
Executive Council, February 1990; memo from Mazur to Bill Deery of the
Deery Group noting authorship of Committee on China report; statement by
the AFL-CIO Executive Council re China, condemning Bush policy, February
1990; statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council, "A New China Policy,"
May 1990; "Statement on United States-China Relations," submitted by Jay
Mazur, president, ILGWU, June 25, 1990, before the Subcommittee on
Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, with
attached article from the Nation, "Who Died in Beijing, and Why?" by
Robin Munro, June 11, 1990; agenda for October 18, 1990, meeting of
AFL-CIO Committee on China; list of attendees, including Li Jinghua and
Zhao Hongliang, refugees from Tiananmen Square and Beijing Workers
Autonomous Federation, and Winston Lord, U.S. ambassador to China;
biographical sketches/resumes of Li, Zhao, and Lord; "Repression in
China Since June 4, 1989," an Asia Watch Report, September 28, 1990;
cover memo from Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AFL-CIO) announcing
launch of China Labor Notes newsletter, with several issues; letter from
AFL-CIO president Kirkland to all affiliate union presidents noting
plans to commemorate first anniversary of Tiananmen Square, with
prospectus for Democracy for China Fund and cover memo, April 12, 1990;
memo to Mazur from Michele Briones re contribution to China Fund, with
attached memo from AFL-CIO re error in accounting, list of contributions
by unions, July 1990; agenda of activities for Washington, D.C., rally
commemorating first anniversary of Tiananmen Square, and sponsors, with
list of Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Associations in major U.S.
cities; faxed memo to Mazur from Briones re AFL-CIO meeting on China,
planned demonstrations, with attached postcard to be sent to the
government in Beijing protesting detention of pre-democracy workers,
April 11, 1990; faxed memo to Brones from Hong Kong Clothing Industry
Workers General Union with button designs, February 14, 1990; press
release, "Democracy Tour to be Announced on Eve of Visit to
Czechoslovakia by Chinese Democracy Leaders," March 1, 1990, faxed to
Mazur from the Deery Group; faxed memo to Mazur from the Asian-American
Free Labor Institute with list of U.S. companies attempting to import
temporary workers from China, March 27, 1990; Current History article,
"Deteriorating Human Rights in China," by James V. Feinerman, associate
professor of law, Georgetown University, September 1990, with note by
Mazur to send copy to China Committee; Political Science Quarterly
article, "Contradictions in Communist Reform: China before 4 June 1989,"
by Benedict Stavis, 1990; article from Libertarian Labor Review, summer
1991; newsletter of the Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies,
Across the Table, featuring article, "Hong Kong Labor Leader Speaks at
ILGWU on Labor Activism in China," Fall 1989 New York Times clipping re
China one year after Tiananmen Square, April 15, 1990; other newspaper
China, Committee on China (AFL-CIO) ReportSee also China - Committee on China 1991 First draft of report of the
China Committee to the AFL-CIO Executive Council; related
correspondence; minutes of meeting, April 11
ChinaLetter from Mazur to the American Ditchley Foundation, pointing out
deficiency in Ditchley essay (attached) in failing to mention the role
of workers, not only students, in the demonstrations at Tiananmen
Square, with reply, September-October; memo to Mazur from vp Susan
Cowell, "ILGWU Response to China Situation," recommending pressure for
economic and trade sanctions, with attached interview by Cowell of
Chinese organizer and letter from philanthropist giving grants to
Chinese students, July 15, 1989; memos to Cowell from ILGWU
international relations director Michele Briones re visit of Hong Kong
trade unionist Lee Cheuk Yan and other China matters, July 6 and 19,
1989; ILGWU and CUNY Center for Labor- Management Studies flyer
invitation to talk by Lee Cheuk Yan, general secretary, Clothing
Industry Workers General Union, Hong Kong, "The Condition of Workers in
China Today: An Eyewitness Account," August 31, 1989; biography of Lee
Cheuk Yan; memo to Mazur and Cowell re liberalized immigration policy
for Chinese (PRC) nationals wishing to extend stay in U.S., July 7,
1989; copy of cartoon and letter sent by Rep. George Miller to
congressional colleagues soliciting co-signers of letter to the
president of the United States-China Business Council urging pressure by
U.S. business community on Chinese government for reform, June 26, 1989;
copy of bill in House of Representatives revoking most-favored-nation
status for PRC, June 13, 1989; letter from Asia Watch to ILGWU vp Susan
Cowell urging sending telegrams to Chinese premier on behalf of arrested
workers at Tiananmen Square, July 9, 1989, with attached report," New
Information on Arrests in China," June 24, 1989; letter from Asia Watch
suggesting actions on behalf of imprisoned Chinese workers, with
profiles of several, August 10, 1989; Asia Watch briefing paper,
"Chinese Labor Issues in Light of June 4," July 26, 1989; ILGWU press
release, "10,000 Chinatown Workers Join 'Day of Mourning' to Protest
Violence by Chinese Government," June 9, 1989; translations of news
accounts fromChinese-language newspapers, July 6, 1989; International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) telegram to president of
People's Republic of China general secretary calling for end to martial
law, refraining from use of force against pro-democracy demonstrators,
May 24, 1989; telegram on June 19, 1989, from ICFTU president expressing
horror at death sentences against leaders of the democracy movement;
press release by ICFTU condemning military attack and "appalling
brutality" against peaceful demonstrators; statement by international
trade union leaders on the opening day of the International Labor
Organisation annual conference, expressing "horror and disgust over the
barbarous massacre" since June 4 of thousands of students and workers
taking part in peaceful pro-democracy protests, June 17, 1989; letter
from ICFTU general secretary noting that he had written to World Bank
president Barber Conable urging suspension of financial assistance to
China, June 22, 1989, with attached copy of letter and ICFTU Report on
Violations of Trade Union Rights in China (May-June 1989); report of
fact-finding mission to China by TWARO April 28-May 7, 1989, with cover
letter to Mazur from CWA president Morton Bahr, July 14, 1989;
article/speech by Harold C. Hinton, "The Chinese Student Uprising: What
Is Next?" May 31, 1989, American Heritage Foundation; letter to Mazur
from China Institute in America, inviting him to art exhibit, August 10,
1989; handwritten notes by Mazur
China Committee (AFL-CIO)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,
China, Committee on China (AFL-CIO), Lee Cheuk YanTravel itinerary of U.S. visit of Hong Kong trade unionist Lee Cheuk Yan,
August 21, 1989; copies of reimbursement checks; minutes of meeting of
Committee on China with Lee Cheuk Yan, August 31, 1989
China, Tianamen SquareSee also China Committee (above) Los Angeles Times Special Report, "The
Shattered Dream," re Tiananmen Square repression, June 25, 1989; special
report, U.S News & World Report, June 5, 1989; New York Times
Magazine, "Human Rights in China," April 16, 1989;" New York Times
profile of regime leaders, June 25, 1989; other newspaper clippings
China, Workers' Autonomous Federation of ChinaSee also China - Han Dongfang "China's Independent Labour Movement,"
dossier prepared by Hong Kong Trade Union Education Centre and Asia
Monitor Resource Center, both in Hong Kong, June 15, 1989; faxed letter
to ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones from Hong Kong
Trade Union Education Centre expressing concern over establishment of
overseas Workers Autonomous Federation of China without consultation
with WAF members in exile, December 13, 1990; background description of
WAF as it originated in China during and after Tiananmen Square, exiled
members, with cover letter from Mazur, May 17, 1990; confidential memo
to Mazur from Susan Cowell re overseas WAF preparatory committee, May
16, 1990; memo to Mazur from Briones re stalemate in forming a WAF in
exile, July 26, 1990; faxes from Asia Watch with letters from Trini
Leung re preparatory committee of WAFOC; IUF News Bulletin, "The
Workers' Struggle in China," re Trini Leung, 1989; related
China, Workers' Autonomous Federation of ChinaSee also China - Workers Autonomous Federation of Chin; see also China -
Han Dongfang Project description and drafts of booklet of translated
excerpts of program broadcasts by WAF in Tiananmen Square between May 24
and June 3, 1989; book proposal, "The Black Hands of Beijing," by Robin
Munro and George Black, re human rights abuses, Tiananmen Square, and
dissidents Han Dongfang, Wang Juntao, and Chen Ziming; financial
records; paper, "Den Xiaoping's Reform and the Chinese Workers'
Participation in the Protest Movement of 1989," by Shaoguang Wang,
assistant professor of politics, Yale University
China, TaiwanLetter to Mazur from attorney Jerome M. Garchik re trade with the
Republic of China (Taiwan) and alleged murder of Henry Liu, June 9, with
attached letter from Garchik to Rep. Robert Matsui; report for Hofstra
University Labor Law Journal, "Power in the Eighties: an analysis of the
management of pension funds for the attainment of union and public
interest goals," by Jerome H. Siegal; report by Asian Center (an
independent affiliate of Clergy and Laity Concerned), "'Made in Taiwan':
A Human Rights Investigation," by Becky Cantwell, Don Luce, Leonard
Weinglass; human rights report from Asia Resource Center and Formosan
Association for Human Rights, "Martial Law in Taiwan"; testimony before
the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs re implementation of
the Taiwan Relations Act, including opening statement by Rep. Stephen
Solarz, chairman, and statement by David Dean, chairman, American
Institute in Taiwan
China, Trade (exports)Fact sheet, "Agricultural Exports in the World Market," focused on China,
based on U.S. Department of Agriculture publications
China, labor (Brandeis)Material related to the Brandeis University Program of Labor in China:
list of Board of Advisors; notice of board meeting, October 30, 1985;
workshop agenda; draft report of trip to China, "A Social Revolution:
Labor and Welfare Reform in China," by Leonard J. Hausman; memo from
Hausman re trip, June 17, 1985; import growth rate from People's
Republic of China from 1983 to 1987; book excerpt, "Trade-Linked Labor
Standards," by Ray Marshall, c. 1990
ChinatownSee also ILGWU Local 23-25 "Growth and Development of the Chinatown
Garment Industry," by Jay Mazur, n.d.; Garment Industry Development
Corporation (GIDC) Chinatown Garment Industry Bulletin re new capital
equipment loan program for contractors, in English and Chinese, January
1986, with attached brochures, one in English, one in Chinese, "Help for
the Chinatown Garment Industry"; letter to Mazur from the Chinese
American Medical Society re managed care, December 20, 1993; memo to
Mazur from manager of Local 23-25 Edgar Romney re meeting with Paul Yee,
president of CCBA (business association?), outlining talking points,
including history of union's involvement with Chinatown, January 17,
1991; letter to Mazur from Romney re decision by Local 23-25 to resign
from planning committee for 1989 Chinatown Labor Fair, citing hostility
of organizers, June 29, 1989; press release from New York Chinatown
History Project re exhibition on Chinese American women in the NYC
garment industry, September 8, 1989; "From the Chinatown Press,"
compilation of English translations of newspaper articles re Graceful
Sportswear, Local 23-25, February 1986; New Yorker Reporter at Large
article: "Chinatown," June 10, 1991; Women's Wear Daily (1993), Newsday
profiles (1990) on Chinatown; booklets, in Korean, describing Union
Health Center and history of ILGWU, with cover letter from Mazur to
Francisco Chang, Department of Organizing and Field Services, Garment
Workers Justice Center, NY, May 18, 1994
Chinatown Day Care CenterSee also Speeches - Child Care (Garment Industry Day Care Center of
Chinatown) 1998; see also Speeches - Chinatown Day Care Center 1989; see
also Speeches - Chung Pak Day Care Center Opening 1993 Copy of check for
$250 contribution to fundraising dinner for Garment Industry Day Care
Center of Chinatown, with cover letter from president of Cornish
Knitgoods Manufacturing Corp., Brooklyn, February 12, 1988; list of
contributors and amounts, March 12, 1986; list of locals and
contributions to 1984 and 1986 dinners; copy of $2500 check from Liz
Claiborne Foundation; copy of check from Biderman Industries for $1240;
letter to Mazur from Gov. Cuomo's office declining fundraising dinner
invitation to Mrs. Cuomo, January 31, 1986; Wall St. Journal newspaper
clipping mentioning local 23-25's prenatal education classes, June 24,
1988; brochure
Chinatown Day Care Center, Chung PakSee also Speeches - Child Care (Garment Industry Day Care Center,
Chinatown) 1998; see also Speeches - Chung Pak Day Care Center Opening
1993 Proposal for a Day Care Center in the Chung Pak Project, under
construction as a mixed-use facility, also housing a health center and
subsidized senior housing, n.d.; remarks by Mazur at press conference
kicking off fundraising campaign for day care center, September 26,
1991; outline of background re center; memo from architects re center,
March 29, 1991; floorplan; outline for fundraising event, February 25,
1992; fundraising letter from Mazur; January 29, 1992; fundraising flyer
in English and Chinese; memo to Mazur from architects re Citibank delay
in closing on the mortgage, November 15, 1993; letter to Housing
Secretary Henry Cisneros inviting him to opening of center, with cover
letter to Mazur, June 1993; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec vp and manager
of Local 23-25 Edgar Romney with attachments re Citibank request that
ILGWU guarantee $1.8 million in case of construction cost overruns,
March 30, 1990
Chinatown Health ClinicSee also Speeches - Union Health Center 1998 and 1999; see also Chinatown
1988-1994 Letter to Mazur thanking him for fundraising effort, May 19,
Chinatown (Brooklyn), Metropolitan Fashion Center of Greater New
YorkSee also Coalition against Anti-Asian Violence 1988 Project proposals:
"New Chinese Apparel Marketplace 1989: A New Beginning for the Chinese
Apparel Industry," in English and Chinese; "Metropolitan Fashion Center
of Greater New York: A Project for the Apparel Industry for the 1990s: A
Brief Description - Background and Economic Benefits," June 1989;
newsletter of the Garment Industry Development Corporation, GIDC News,
with cover story, "GIDC Sets Up Training Program for New Brooklyn
Consortium," Winter 1990; flyer for skills training classes by
Metropolitan Fashion Center, touting center as worker-friendly; press
releases, December 13 and 14, 1990: from GIDC announcing skills training
project with Metropolitan Fashion Center; from ILGWU Local 23-25,
"Metropolitan Fashion Center to Open, ILGWU Helps Chinatown Garment
Industry Expand," in English and Chinese; from Office of the Mayor, in
English and Chinese; from Greater Blouse, Skirt & Undergarment
Ass'n., Inc., in English and Chinese; from the Continental Garment
Manufacturers Ass'n of Greater New York, Inc., in English and Chinese;
from Juki America, Inc., "Juki Contributes High Technology to the
Metropolitan Fashion Center"; letter from Metropolitan Fashion Center
reporting on progress of planning, in English and Chinese, n.d.
Citizen ActionSee also Speeches - Dubrow, Evelyn 1989 Letter to Mazur from Citizen
Action vice president and political director inviting him to dinner
honoring ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow with Lifetime
Achievement Award, March 15,1993; invitations and related materials for
dinner honoring William Winpisinger, held January 27, 1988; list of
quotes by leading public figures about Citizen Action; newsletter,
Citizen Action News, year-end 1987; 1986 Election Report, with
state-by-state analysis; newspaper clippings
City of Hope-Office and Professional Employees International
Union (OPEIU) BoycottLetter from Local 30, Office and Professional Employees International
Union (OPEIU) describing two-year-old impasse with medical center,
fundraising boycott, January 17, 1989; letter from City of Hope CEO
giving management's account of situation, October 11, 1988; letter from
Mazur to City of Hope CEO, urging resolution of dispute, October 7,
1988; letter to Mazur from City of Hope thanking him for contribution,
June 16, 1987; letters to AFL-CIO officials from City of Hope CEO
warning that OPEIU's attempt to "interfere" with fundraising efforts by
presenting resolution to AFL-CIO to sanction a national boycott would
destroy the center's relationship with organized labor, jeopardize jobs,
February 2 and 11, 1987
Civil RightsArticle from the National Journal, March 2, 1991, discussing conflict
between blacks (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights), Hispanics
(National Council of La Raza), and the AFL-CIO over employer sanctions
in hiring illegal immigrants and how the issue was emblematic of
divisions in a civil rights movement including minorities beyond African
Civil Rights Act of 1990Article from Women's Wear Daily discussing bill to put discrimination
based on sex, religion, or national origin on the same footin race-based
discrimination, quiet opposition by retailers, July 31, 1990
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988Correspondence from congressmen, Mazur, religious, pro-choice, and
pro-life advocates and others favoring or opposing the Danforth
amendment, allowing institutions objecting to abortion to receive
federal funds
Cliffhanger ApparelComplaint filed against Cliffhanger Apparel Company, 265 W. 37th St., New
York, for nonpayment of contributions to welfare fund of Local 23-25;
notification of award by impartial chairmen, June 14, 1983; audit
reports; arbitration award, October 22, 1982; related correspondence
Clinton/Gore Campaign
Clothe AmericaAd in Women's Wear Daily listing contributors to Clothe America, which
raised $3 million in clothing donations for the homeless, March 20,
1990; letter to Mazur from Clothe American chairman Ken Sitomer , CEO of
Russ Togs, Inc., thanking him for referral of contributor, April 6,
Clothing Bank/J.M. Kaplan FundLetters to Mazur and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman from Suzanne Davis,
co-chairman of the Clothing Bank/New Clothes for the Homeless,
soliciting contributions for program in which manufacturers and
retailers donated $4 million in two years in surplus new clothes for
distribution to NYC homeless shelters, part of Mayor's Voluntary Action
Center; letter from NYC Mayor Ed Koch, thanking Mazur for support,
August 18, 1988; letter to Leslie Fay president John Pomerantz,
soliciting contribution, noting referral by Mazur, May 19, 1988; list of
inventory from manufacturers, December 1987
Clothing Manufacturers AssociationNational agreement between CMA and Amalgamated Clothing and Textile
Workers Union, as of May 1, 1995, with cover memo from UNITE general
counsel's office
Coalition Against Anti-Asian ViolenceNewspaper clipping from Bay News, February 8, 1988, re harassment of
Asians in Brooklyn, with cover note to Mazur from Pacific Northwest
District Council manager Katie Quan
Coalition for Democratic ValuesLetter to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland from Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
seeking contribution to organization promoting liberal, progressive
national agenda and counter drift toward right within the Demoratic
Party, February 4, 1991
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)Meeting notice of New York City Chapter for December 13, 1993, noting
caucus of ILGWU members, memo to Mazur re ILGWU hosting of CLUW National
Executive Board meeting of December 16, 1993; letter to Mazur re new
CLUW publication re workplace safety, April 24, 1991; draft of letter
urging ILGWU members to join CLUW, March 28, 1991; letter to Mazur from
president of Cleveland Chapter of CLUW thanking him for his support of
the reproductive choice resolution that was submitted to the AFL-CIO
Executive Council, July 26, 1990; correspondence between Mazur and CLUW
national president re participation in the American Family Celebration,
April-August, 1988; conference call for CLUW convention, held November
17, 1988; memo from Mazur to ILGWU regional directors and NYC managers
urging that they join CLUW, noting recent decline in ILGWU
representation, danger of losing seat on national board, November 17,
1987; memo to Mazur re second annual Working Women's Awareness Week,
March 18, 1987; memo from Mazur urging that locals support the NYC
chapter of CLUW's International Women's Day event with donation of $50,
February 25, 1987, with attached letter from CLUW chapter president
describing the event, theme of dependent care; letter to Mazur thanking
him for contribution to CLUW Center for Education & Research,
January 29, 1987; invoice for reimbursement for travel to CLUW
conference, November 24, 1986; invitation to Sol Chaikin to Working
Women's Awareness Week, February 10, 1986, with notation by Mazur
Code of Conduct (Overseas outsourcing)Memo to Mazur calling Sportswear Code of Conduct "totally unenforceable,"
October 10, 1994; Code of Conduct for Overseas Vendors, with handwritten
note; "Signed by Dress Association with ILGWU"; "ILGWU Commitment to
Apparel Industry Competitiveness," and description of ILGWU's federal
agenda, April 22, 1993; Levi Strauss & Co. Business Partner Terms of
Engagement and Guidelines for Country Selection, 1992; Liz Claiborne,
Inc., and Its Subsidiaries Standards of Engagement; 1994 Outerwear
Negotiations Demands, including code of conduct for overseas vendors,
marked "ILG Proposal"; contract agreement re outsourcing, labeled
"ACTWU," September 30, 1993; code of conduct by Phillips-Van Heusen: A
Shared Commitment: Requirements for Suppliers, Contractors, Business
Partners," with cover note to Mazur, August 19, 1992
Coelho, TonyLetter from Mazur to Majority Whip, Rep. Tony Coelho, expressing regret
at his decision to resign from Congress, citing malicious innuendo and
diatribe, June 20, 1989; letter to Mazur from Coelho, thanking him for
Commentary (magazine), JanuaryCopy of magazine
Commission on Migrationsee also Migration Letter to Mazur from the Commission for the Study of
International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development confirming
his scheduled testimony re Caribbean migration issues at hearing on July
14, 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin
outlining points for testimony before the commission, June 26, 1989
Commission for the Study of International Migration and
Cooperative Economic DevelopmentTestimony by Congressman James Scheuer before the Commission for the
Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development,
July 14, 1989
Committee for National Health Insurancesee also Health Care 1989-1991; see also Health Care - National Coalition
on Health Care; see also Health Care - National Leadership Coalition on
Health Care Letter from director of Committee for National Health
Insurance to Rep. John Conyers praising report by General Accounting
Office on Canadian health insurance system, June 24, 1991; memo to
committee Board of Directors re Gallup Poll of California residents
showing support for national health insurance, May 7, 1990; letters re
views of presidential candidates, May-July, 1988; letter re proposed
legislation for Medicare catastrophic health insurance, April 9, 1987;
statements of UAW and AFL-CIO officials re Medicare catastrophic health
insurance before the House Ways and Means Committee, March 10, 1987;
minutes of Board of Directors meetings of Committee for National Health
Insurance and Health Security Action Council, October 28, 1986 & 87;
letter re pain disability claimants under Social Security, improving
Medicaid in NY, May 20, 1987; press release from Brooklyn D.A. Elizabeth
Holtzman re program for workplace safety, January 27, 1987; letter to
ILGWU president Sol Chaikin from Coalition for a National Health System
re nonbonding referendum in Massachusetts overwhelmingly supporting
national health care, February 13, 1987; press release announcing
national conference planned for May 1987; brochure, "America's Babies -
Love 'em or Lose 'em," comparing U.S. infant mortality rates with other
countries, with cover letter, January 30, 1987; brochure, "Health Care
in the United States: An Action Agenda for the 100th Congress," Health
Security Action Council and Save Our Security Coalition, with cover
letter to newly elected congressmen, January 8, 1987, and letter to
Mazur, January 9, 1987; correspondence between committee chair Douglas
Fraser and Mazur re appointment to Board of Directors, and press release
announcing appointment, October-November 1986; Statement on USHealth Act
of 1986 by Douglas A. Fraser, chairman, Health Security Action Council,
before the House Select Committee on Aging, September 12, 1986, with
cover letter; agenda and material for Board of Directors meeting,
October 28, 1986; letter from chairman re effect of tax reform on health
and other social benefits, June 11, 1985; requests to Mazur for
contributions; report to Mazur on meetings of November 5, 1986, and
September 13, 1985; minutes of Board of Directors meetings of Committee
for National Health Insurance and Health Security Action Council,
February 8, 1984; letters re newspaper articles
Communication Workers of America (CWA)See also Speeches - Bahr, Morty Letter from Mazur to Morton Bahr,
president, CWA, thanking him for support of the Textile and Apparel
Trade Act, October 7, 1988; letter from Mazur to Bahr re AFL-CIO China
Committee meeting, suggesting discussion of future direction, September
5, 1989; letter from Mazur to Bahr re address to ILGWU breakfast by Lu
Jing-hua, successful press conference, less successful preparatory
meeting of Workers Autonomous Federation, June 18, 1990; letter from
Mazur to Bahr with attached redrafted AFL-CIO statement, "Tragedy in
China," calling for change in U.S. policy toward China after Tiananmen
Square, October 27, 1989; memo to Mazur from exec asst David Melman re
meeting with ACTWU in support of CWA and IBEW strike against NYNEX,
outlining issues, with attached copy of flyer urging withholding payment
of telephone bill until resolution of strike, September 11, 1989; letter
to Mazur from CWA secretary-treasurer James B. Booe, thanking him for
support in strike against NYNEX and contribution to union Defense Fund,
November 3, 1989; letter to Mazur from CWA Local 1180 re emergency
meeting of Electoral Coalition to promote progressive tax structure,
oppose cuts in NYC services, May 23, 1991; letter from Mazur to CWA
District One vice president inviting participation in Triangle Fire
commemorative rally, February 25, 1992; resume of CWA director of
international affairs Louis E. Moore, with cover note to Mazur, November
25, 1992
Confecciones Trancontinentals, SA/Liz ClaiborneFax to Mazur from the general secretary of the International Textile,
Garment & Leather Workers' Federation re Play Knits, New York,
invested in Guatemalan firm Confecciones Transcontinentales to produce
for Liz Claiborne label, with attached article, "A Run-Away Shop Runs
Away From Guatemala Leaving 500+ Jobless" and interview with leaders of
union in formation, requesting Mazur contact Liz Claiborne, January 20,
1989; copy of fax forwarded to Liz Claiborne from Mazur, January 23,
Consortium for Worker Education, INC.Financial statement for the year ending December 31, 1993; minutes of
annual meeting of Board of Directors of April 16, 1993; agenda and
related materials; memo to Mazur reporting on consortium meeting of
March 8; memo to Mazur from ILGWU education director Kitty Krupat
recommending policy and procedure changes to promote accountability,
October 14; outline of meeting with chairman of finance & audit
committee, October 19; personal and confidential memo from Mazur to
executive director, expressing concern about learning for the first time
about actions taken, declining chairmanship of finance committee, with
attached outline of suggestions for strengthening procedures, October
20; agreement between consortium and United Federation of Teachers, July
1, 1993 through June 30, 1995; letter to Mazur noting copies of checks
and supporting documentation for pension payments, August 11, 1994
Consortium for Worker Education, INC.See also NYS - School and Business Alliance Task Force Memo to Mazur as
chair of CWE re need for alternative to current funding by Urban
Development Corporation (UDC), entailing "submitting a complicated
proposal then waiting nearly six months for approval and another six
months for a contract and another six months for a check," November 6,
1992; "Building Union/Business Partnerships for New York's Economic
Development: A Proposal of The Consortium for Worker Education,"
December 29, 1992; testimony by Mazur before the NYS Assembly Commission
on Skills Development and Vocational Education, January 27, 1992, with
attached notice of public hearing; unanimous written consent of the
directors re by-law amendments; memo from Mazur and chairman Barry
Feinstein re efforts to qualify to receive direct adult education
formula aid, March 15, 1991, with attached list of major funding sources
for CWE; list of grants received, 1987-1990; list of services from the
City University of New York (CUNY), NYC Board of Education, NYS
Department of Education, list of participating unions; New York Private
Industry Council Dislocated Worker Participants Demographic Report,
August 30, 1990; agenda of May 3, 1990, Board of Directors meeting;
agenda of September 30, 1990, board meeting; Report to the Consortium
Board; consortium brochure and fact sheet (in English and Spanish) re
Worker Opportunity Reemployment Center, a free service to dislocated
workers; letter from Mazur to incoming First Lady Barbara Bush re
consortium's programs, including English as a Second Language (ESL),
basic literacy, and vocational training, January 18, 1989; Harvard
Education Review article, "So We Can Use Our Own Names, and Write the
Laws by Which We Live: Educating the New U.S. Labor Force," by Sheila D.
Collins, Miriam Balmouth, and Priscilla Jean, November 1989; consortium
by-laws; correspondence re incorporation of consortium, October-November
1988; Teamsters Local 237 memo describing consortium programs, possible
funding cut by NYS Education Department, with cover note to Mazur, May
22, 1988
Consortium for Worker Education, INC., December 14Hand-delivered letter to Mazur from consortium attorneys Strook &
Strook & Lavan with "for your eyes only" script for meeting the next
day, certificate of incorporation and by-laws for consortium, December
13, 1988; agenda and list of attendees of December 14 meeting, with fact
sheet on consortium; letter from Mazur, to Mazur, outlining rationale
for incorporation, noting need to reduce fiduciary responsibility borne
solely by Local 237, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, November
22, 1988; "Arguments in Support of the Consortium for Worker
Constitution MagazineSpring 1989 issue of the quarterly journal of the Foundation for the U.S.
Consumer Assembly of New YorkAffiliated with the Consumer Federation of America. Letter from the
president of the New York Consumer Assembly to the administrator of the
Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor, opposing change in
federal law to allow industrial homework, December 2, 1986; letter to
board of directors re meeting, March 30, 1987; text of speech (by
Mazur?) endorsing Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, noting
effect of imports on consumers, June 10, 1986
Coordinating Council of Cooperatives (United Housing
Federation)Letter from Mazur praising the 25-year-old coordinating council of the
United Housing Federation, sponsor of affordable cooperative housing for
low and moderate income people, November 30, 1990
Coors BeerLetter to Mazur from AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland re settlement of longstanding
labor dispute with the Adolph Coors Company and end of boycott, thanking
Mazur for unflaggingsupport, August 20, 1987, with attached joint and
separate statements and transcript of news conference
Cornell University- School of Industrial and Labor
RelationsMinutes of board meeting of Institute for Women and Work, December 12,
1986; invitation to Mazur to attend conference sponsored by Cornell
Institute for Collective Bargaining, "The Next American Revolution:
Crisis in Employment," February 12, 1987; invitation to demonstration of
software prototype designed for collective bargaining cost calculations,
July 9, 1986; invitation to workshop, "Strategic Planning for Union
Locals in a Changing Environment," April 7, 1987; letter requesting
documents relating to commemoration of bicentennial of U.S.
constitution, May 13, 1987; letter requesting copies of ILGWU position
on raising the minimum wage, July 22, 1987; letter from Ed Cleary,
president, NYS AFL-CIO, to Lane Kirkland, president, AFL-CIO, re plans
by the State University Construction Fund to use nonunion labor to build
Catherwood Library at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor
Relations, calling it an outrage, warning of it becoming a national
issue, urging Kirkland to contract Gov. Cuomo to personally intervene,
May 6, 1994
Cornell-Kheel Records Management ProjectCorrespondence between ILGWU officials and Kheel Center director Richard
Strassberg, proposing archiving ILGWU files;list of records retention
and disposal schedule, July 13, 1989; list of files, June 30, 1998
Corporate TakeoversAFL-CIO News article, December 11, 1988, "The Stark Bottom Line of
Corporate Takeovers"
Costa RicaLetter from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin to U.S. Trade
Representative's Chief Textile Negotiator re ongoing denial of worker
rights in countries with which we are involved in bilateral trade
negotiations, this time Costa Rica, October 28, 1993; mentions El
Salvador also
Council for American Fashion (CAF)see also NYS Department of Economic Development see also NYC Office of
Business Development Labor-management committee to promote industry
cooperation, modernization, image; first called Fashion Industries
Economic Development Council. Letter from Mazur to U.S. Secretary of
Labor Robert Reich in support of CAF application for an Employment and
Training Administration JTPA "Learning Consortia Project" grant to
strengthen job retention at the plant floor level, May 11, 1994;
employer survey of ILGWU firms re age and ethnicity of principals and
workforce, relationship of contractors with jobbers, etc.; cover letter
sent to elected officials that accompanied brochure re CAF, list of
recipients, May 24, 1993; memo to Mazur from CAF director Carl Proper,
summarizing "overly optimistic" NYC job creation report for apparel
industry, written by exec asst James Parrott for Mayor Dinkins's "Job
Creation Program," September 8, 1993; memo to Mazur from Proper re uses
for Cupid Modular Manufacturing video, including PBS special on labor's
role in modernizing the apparel industry, March 11, 1993; memo to Mazur
from Carl proper re discussion points for upcoming meeting with FIT
(Fashion Institute of Technology) President Allan Hirshfield re
developing cooperative partnerships, incubator, March 5, 1993; letter
from Mazur to Hirshfield suggesting collaboration between ILGWU retirees
and FIT in mending clothing for homeless and psychiatric patients,
February 12, 1993; letter to Mazur from Hirshfield supporting Mazur
proposal to establish a technology extension service (NY-FAME), with
attached proposal for a Center of Apparel Science and Technology between
FIT and Cornell University, February 24, 1993; memo to Mazur from Proper
re New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) receipt of a federal
economic development grant for apparel manufacturing apparel industry,
February 9, 1993; letter to Mazur from Hirshfield re FIT's plans t go
forward with incubator for FIT students, graduates, and other to start
their own businesses, with attached description, January 21, 1993;
speech by Mazur at NY Labor Commissioner's Awards Luncheon, September
23, 1993
Council for American Fashion (CAF)CAF Steering Committee agenda, November 17, 1992, with attached excerpts
from Clinton/Gore campaign release re manufacturing for the 21st
century; Bylaws of the Council for American Fashion, a Labor-Management
Industry Development Fund; description of the CAF Fund; memo to Mazur
from exec asst James Parrott re industry co-chair Eli Elias' concerns
about CAF Fund bylaws; CAF newsletter, Fashion Forward, April 1992;
report, "Keeping New York in Fashion: A Strategic Plan for the Future of
the New York Fashion Apparel Industry," prepared for the Garment
Industry Development Corporation by Kurt Salmon Associates, March 1992;
letter from Mazur to New Jersey governor Florio re new $200 million New
Jersey Economy Recovery Fund and how best this might be utilized for the
apparel industry, related correspondence, 1999-92; letter to Mazur from
CAF's funding agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, re
tour of NY garment center, July 21, 1992; letter from NYC Mayor Dinkins
in support of application of Textile/Clothing Manufacturing Corporation
(TC)2 for funding as Manufacturing Technology Center, April 28; list of
appointees to Enterprise Zone Commission; clipping from Journal of
Commerce re Guatemalan knitting for Liz Claiborne, April 1992
Council for American Fashion (CAF)Annual Report of CAF, 1991; agenda, CAF Steering Committee, March 28,
1991, with Mazur introductory comments; finance report for Oct.1, 1989 -
March 31, 1990; "Preliminary Assessment of the Council for American
Fashion: A Labor/Management Partnership for the Apparel Industry," by
Norman Eiger, Professor of Labor Studies, Institute of Management and
Labor Relations, Rutgers University, March 1, 1991; letter to Mazur from
ad agency Launey, Hachmann & Harris, New York, offering to organize
public relations campaign for CAF, May 14, 1991; list of suggested
contractor shops for site visits, April 19, 1991; memo to Mazur from
exec asst James Parrott re establishment of CAF Labor- Management Fund
to promote cooperative approaches to improving the women's apparel
industry and the position of its workers, c. 1991; list of money owed to
CAF by manufacturers' associations; request for Mazur signature on grant
application for continuing funding to the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service; newspaper clippings from ILGWU Justice, January
Council for American Fashion (CAF)Memo to Mazur from exec asst James Parrott re possible members of CAF
steering committee, December 14, 1989; reports of marketing and
technology committees, November 20, 1989; agenda for steering committee,
October 26, 1989; agenda for first meeting of public relations
committee, consideration of possible names, with opening remarks by
Mazur re purpose of council, describing state of the industry, October
24, 1989; report of first meeting of public relations committee; list of
committees and members as of September 22, 1989; memo to Mazur from
Proper informing him that he is co-chair of CAF Executive Committee,
with industry representative Eli Elias, October 2, 1989; minutes of
technology committee, October 4, 1989
Council for American Fashion (CAF)-Labor Management Committee,
AprilOriginally called the Women's and Children's Apparel Labor-Management
Committee. Outline for meeting establishing committee, April 18, 1989;
agenda, tentative budget, membership list; draft proposal, March 31,
1989; related memos including analysis of ILGWU membership in
Council for American Fashion (CAF)--Grant Application to Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)Women's and Children's Apparel Labor Management Committee Proposal
Submitted to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service May 1989;
letters from Mazur describing initiative
Council for American Fashion (CAF), JuneAgenda, detailed outline of second meeting
Council for American Fashion (CAF), SeptemberAgenda, outline, list of committees and members, description of role of
committees, outline of role of CAF with relation to other, local,
labor-management committees; employer questionnaire
Crafted with Pride in U.S.A. CouncilSee also Economic Policy Institute Letter from Sammy Davis, Jr., to
executive director of Crafted with Pride in U.S.A. Council noting
pleasure in working on campaign, September 29, 1986; press release re
Economic Policy Institute study on importance of manufacturing jobs to
the U.S. economy, May 20, 1993; press release, "Textile and Apparel
Job-Loss Commercials Demonstrate Staying Power with Consumers,"
September 9, 1992; list of questions for consumer research, June 14,
1991; reports on "Made in U.S.A." promotions by retailers Castner,
Knotts Dry Goods (Nashville, TN) and Younkers (Des Moines, IA), August 9
and 11, 1990; press releases from American Textile Manufacturers
Institute, "Textile and Apparel 17.3 Percent of U.S. Trade Deficit,"
August 16, 1988; "Textile and Apparel Imports Now 15 Percent of U.S.
Trade Deficit," September 11, 1987; steering committee minutes, May 11,
1988, December 2, 1987, October 28, 1987; results of attitude survey re
predisposition of men and women toward buying U.S.-made goods, July 17,
1987; clipping from Washington Post re phony "made in U.S.A." label scam
by Taiwanese manufacturer of U.S. flags, February 17, 1989; other
newspaper clippings; update summary report: The State of Working America
1994-95, October 1994; report by Management Horizons re retailing
industry by year 2000, with cover letter to Crafted with Pride steering
committee, July 27, 1990; Update, "Summary report: The State of Working
America," October 1994
Daily News strikeLetter from Mazur to all ILGWU members in the New York City area, urging
boycott of Daily News in support of striking union workers, noting that
if management succeeds in breaking the union at a newspaper read by
working class people in the nation's greatest union town, it will send a
signal to managements everywhere to follow their lead, November 7, 1990,
with attached messages in Spanish and Chinese, with cover letter to
president of Allied Printing Trades Council of Greater New York; draft
of letter from Mazur to Crain's New York Business replying to opinion
piece on Daily News strike, January 4, 1991, and final printed copy,
January 21, 1991; draft of Open Letter to Charles Brumback, Chief
Executive Officer, and Stanton Cooke, Chairman, the Tribune Company,
urging them not to close the paper that is a vital part of New York
culture, from the Committee to Save the Daily News, with list of members
including Mayer Dinkins; letter to Mazur from NYC mayor David Dinkins,
thanking him for efforts resulting in settlement with Daily News, April
11, 1991; press release, News from the Daily News Strike Front, "'Save
the News - Settle or Sell' to be Theme of Ad Drive by Union," January
24, 1991; copy of ad; memo from Mazur re ILGWU ads in support of
strikers, January 7, 1991; list of unions supporting ILGWU ad; memo to
Mazur outlining talking points for press conference re strike, with
handwritten notes by Mazur, January 23, 1991; press releases by Tribune
Company re decision to close or sell the Daily News, January 16, 1991;
agenda of ILGWU NYC managers' meeting, November 19, 1990, outlining
campaign of support for Daily News workers, targeting newsstands,
leafleting; memo from Mazur to ILGWU NYC managers re distribution of
strike paper produced by striking Daily News workers, November 21, 1990;
copy of strike paper, Real News; request to AFL-CIO Executive Council
members for approval of $25,000 strike fund for Daily News striking
workers, November 5, 1990, with attached copies of checks from
affiliated unions; notice to Mazur of meeting of the Committee to
Boycott for Justice at the Daily News, September 14, 1990, list of
members, and related correspondence; report, Subcommittee on Strategic
Approaches February 1991 Meeting, noting progress in strike, widespread
support; letter to Mazur from the Workers Defense League re educational
campaign against strikebreaking, designed to carry message of solidarity
to unorganized, potential replacement workers, coordinating it with
lobbying for anti-replacement legislation, September 7, 1990; letter
from Allied Printing Trades Council of Greater New York to unionists,
seeking support for efforts to settle with Daily News, possible strike,
August 6, 1990, with cover letter from New York City Central Labor
Council calling for meeting to discuss situation, August 9, 1990,
attached bumper sticker, reader's boycott pledge, article from Chicago
Lawyer re union-busting firm hired by Daily News, September 1985; press
release from the Kamber Group, "Statement by George McDonald, president
of the Allied Printing Trades Council," July 26, 1990; NYS Department of
Labor press release announcing establishment of Board of Inquiry to
investigate ongoing labor dispute at Daily News, noting certification by
State Board of Mediation of failure to reach a voluntary settlement,
July 26, 1990; open letter to Daily News carriers, asking that they stop
delivering the paper; list of Daily News advertisers "good guys" and
"bad guys," November 19, 1990; mailgram from Mazur to Empire Blue Cross
Blue Shield urging it cease advertising in Daily News, November 15,
1990; flyers for December 10, 1990, rally; list of union speakers and
pledged contributions at November 14, 1990, rally; handbills and
stickers calling for boycott; description of handbill legalities;
newspaper clippings
Media: Daily News RecordDraft of letter to the editor from Mazur re inaccuracies of newspaper's
report on Congressional Budget Office study of U.S. apparel industry,
January 13, 1992
Dalton IndustriesMemos to ILGWU legal counsel re closure of Dalton Industries, failure to
make weekly payments, decision to take firm to federal court
Day Care SurveyDay Care Council of New York, Inc., "The Garment Industry Advisory
Committee Child Daycare Needs Assessment Report and Recommendations,"
April 1984; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell discussing flaws in
the survey, May 15, 1984
Deborah Hospital FoundationCorrespondence with Mazur from New York hospital foundation re
contributions from ILGWU health and welfare funds; computer printout of
ILGWU patients, July 6, 1988; newsletter, 1984
Democratic National Convention/ NY '92See also NYS Democratic Committee 1987-1992; see also Speeches - Village
Independent Democrats (NYC) 1996; see also Gang Meeting; see also
Massachusetts Democratic State Party Letter to Mazur, signed by NYC
mayor Dinkins, inviting him to a meeting to prepare for 1992 Democratic
National Convention, to be held in NYC, and to serve on executive
committee of New York '92 Host Committee, December 6, 1991, with pencil
notation, "NO"; fact sheets, newsletter, news clippings relating to
NY92, including list of fashion designers featured at fashion show
Democratic National CommitteeSee also NYS Democratic Committee 1987-1992 New York delegation, 1988
Democratic National Convention Delegation Rules; 1984 rules; 1988
Delegate Selection Rules; preliminary lists, "final list" and "revised
final list" of ILGWU delegates to Democratic National Convention; list
of NYS delegates to national convention; position paper by Jesse Jackson
'88 presidential campaign, "Paying for Our Jobs: A Budget Plan for Jobs,
Peace, and Justice"; letter from Jesse Jackson to ILGWU legislative
director Evelyn Dubrow, June 13, 1988; urgent notice of strategy meeting
of Brooklyn Dukakis presidential campaign, August 12, 1988; AFL-CIO
agenda re meeting to select delegates to convention, with list of
delegates and union affiliations; letter from AFL-CIO president Lane
Kirkland to Paul Kirk, president of the Democratic National Committee,
in support of a nonspecific party platform, December 18, 1987; statement
by the president of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied
Craftsmen and co-chair of the Democratic National Committee's Labor
Council in support of a nonspecific party platform, May 19, 1988; note
from Sen. Edward Kennedy thanking Mazur for support of Fund for a
Democratic Majority, notes Dukakis is "best chance since F.D.R." for
achieving goals for workers, June 28, 1988; letter from Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee chair to Mazur re House Speaker Jim
Wright, attached article from National Journal, June 5, 1987; memo from
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee with analysis of key races
and newspaper clippings, May 20, 1986; letter from Queens County
Democratic chair Tom Manton saying that he agreed to serve as state
chair of the Dick Gephardt for President Campaign, discusses candidate,
December 30, 1987; letter to Mazur from DNC soliciting contribution,
April 30, 1987; letter from Mazur noting $50,000 contribution by ILGWU
to DNC for non-federal accounts, September 29, 1987; invitation/program
to DNC New York dinner, April 27, 1987; letter from DNC chair Paul Kirk
to Mazur thanking him for agreeing to serve as co-chair of New York
dinner, March 5, 1987; copies of contribution checks from ILGWU
($15,000) and Leslie Fay president John Pomerantz
Democratic National Convention--Primary Debate
SelectionLists showing status of potential ILGWU Democratic Convention Delegates
as of January 26, 1988, as of February 23, 1988, and as of December 10,
1987; memo to Mazur re DNC delegate selection rules, including specific
quotas for minorities and women, and difficulty of Mazur himself
becoming a delegate because he is a white male, May 1, 1987; memo from
local 23-25 manager-secretary Edgar Romney to members urging political
participation in order to reverse Reagan anti-labor policies (in English
and Chinese), March 30, 1988; memo from ILGWU exec asst Susan Cowell to
Coro Foundation about issues poll of union members, c. 1987, with
attached Newsday newspaper clipping re divisions within labor over
foreign policy; memo to Mazur from Gus Tyler re ILGWU delegate selection
process, suggests involving retirees, March 4, 1987, with attached text
of press conference by ALF-CIO president Lane Kirkland re candidate
interview and endorsement process; memo to Mazur from Gus Tyler re
strategic criteria for primary endorsement, March 1, 1987; draft of
AFL-CIO written questions to be submitted to presidential candidates,
March 4, 1987, with cover memo to Mazur from ILGWU legislative director
Evelyn Dubrow, and cover memo from AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas
Donahue; responses of candidates to questions, with highlighted comments
on trade, printed in AFL-CIO Federationist, May 9, 1987; transcript of
responses to video question; letter to Mazur from Al Gore, soliciting
support, April 7, 1988; schedule of key events of the 1988 presidential
election; letter to Mazur from Jesse Jackson delegate Ed Vargas, local
23-25, thanking him for support, May 6, 1988; handwritten notes by
Democratic Policy Commission--DukakisLetter from Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis as chair of Democratic
Policy Commission's Committee on Industrial and Entrepreneurial Economy,
noting committee's report, "Opportunity for Every American," with
attached cover memos to Mazur by ILGWU officials Evelyn Dubrow and
Herman Starobin criticizing report's statement on trade policy,
suggesting that the union meet with Dukakis to challenge assertion, in
light of heavy campaign support, December 17, 1986
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee--U.S. Senate Leadership
CircleSee also Massachusetts Democratic State Party Letter to Mazur from Sen.
John Kerry (Mass.) urging him to renew his $15,000 membership in the
Leadership Circle, the "premiere program" of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee, with attached list of events, March 8, 1988; letter
to Mazur from Kerry noting recent electoral success, with attached
clipping from the Washington Post, noting quiet bonuses given to
Republican campaign committee staffers after defeat despite outspending
Democrats, January 13, 1987; letter to Mazur from Kerry, urging prompt
renewal of membership, December 19, 1986
Democratic Socialists of AmericaLetters to Mazur from DSA chair Michael Harrington asking to place a DSA
intern with ILGWU, 1988; letters to Mazur re his speech at DSA Labor
Forum re increasing minimum wage, March-April 1987; Labor Voice,
newsletter of DSA Labor Commission, November-December 1986;
Dinkins, David, NYC Mayorsee also NYC Mayoral Race 1993 - NY1 Newspoll Letter from Ed Koch
endorsing Herman Badillo for mayor, February 16, 1993; statement by
Mazur endorsing Dinkins, March 15, 1993; memo to Mazur from David Wells
advising on campaign tactics for Dinkins, in advance of meeting with
deputy major Bill Lynch, March 5, 1993; outline of topics for discussion
with Dinkins, handwritten by Mazur and typed; list of additional points
to raise with Dinkins, including Chung Pak Child Care Center and Fashion
Center BID; letter to Dinkins from Mazur re Chung Pak center, February
23, 1993; related campaign strategy memos; correspondence with deputy
mayor Barry Sullivan re Garment Industry Development Association (GIDC)
and Workforce Development Commission, 1993; correspondence re On the
Mend Project, which repaired donated clothing for the indigent released
from Bellevue Hospital, with New York Times clipping, February 1993;
wish list, ILGWU's New York City Agenda, calling for creation of Mayor's
Office of Fashion and Design Industries; memo with polling questions
from deputy mayor Bill Lynch, to Mazur, May 27, 1993; memo from Mazur to
Dinkins re re-election strategy ideas, August 5, 1992; letter to Mazur
from Doris Ling-Cohan, seeking endorsement for Civil Court judge in New
York County, January 11, 1993
Dinkins Mayoral Campaignsee also NYC Mayoral Race 1993 - NY1 Newspoll; see also NYC Mayoral Race,
1997; see also Liberal Party; see also NYC - Lynch, Bill; see also Voter
Registration Statement by Theodore W. Kheel on Why I've Joined
"Democrats for Guiliani If Koch Wins the Democratic Primary," April 28,
1989; David Dinkins' record on housing, education, health care, child
welfare, drugs, economic development; "Record of David Dinkins on Issues
of Concern to the Jewish Community"; campaign flyer, "David Dinkins and
the Jewish Community: A Record of Friendship and Commitment; newspaper
clipping, "Rabbi Rouses Jews to Vote for Dinkins," NY Newsday, faxed to
Mazur by Rabbi Jacob Bronner, August 3, 1990, with letter of opposition
from Jewish voter and notation, "This is amongst the many hate mail I
have received"; AFL-CIO NYC Poll results, February 27-March 6 (no year);
Johnson/Singer poll results, July 7, 1989; letter from Mazur to New York
Newsday questioning "city insider" poll results, defending Dinkins in
Crown Heights controversy, July 9, 1993; speech by Mazur introducing
Dinkins at concert for ILGWU retiree "On the Mend" program, October 27,
1993; transcript of MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour Oct. 13, 1984, and May 14,
1986, broadcasts; handwritten notes by Mazur; drafts of speeches by Jay
Mazur (written by Gus Tyler) and David Dinkins re endorsement; union
local 89-22-1 and 23-25 newsletters headlining Dinkins endorsement; memo
and list, Issues to Discuss with Mayor Dinkins; news release from NYC
Commission on Human Rights re racially motivated bombing, letter from
Mazur to Dinkins re bombing of Happy Land Social Club; postcard for
Dinkins volunteer kick-off rally, April 14, 1989; article by Gus Tyler
re Dinkins-Guiliani mayoral race, Newsday, Oct. 11, 1989, other
newspaper clippings
Dinkins Mayoral Campaignsee also Labor Day Parade 1989 Lists of ILGWU and other union members who
volunteered in the Dinkins campaign; memos detailing results of
telephone calling; phone scripts; invitation from Mazur to mayor-elect
Dinkins re meeting with British Labour Party head Neil Kinnock, Sens.
Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden, and Canadian New Democratic Party leader Ed
Broadbent; draft of endorsement editorial from the Jewish Forward, faxed
to Mazur; internal ILGWU strategy memo from exec. VP. Susan Cowell
agreeing with memo faxed to Mazur from campaign consultant
Hickman-Maslin Research re racial politics, need to appeal to various
ethnic voter segments; other strategy memos; letters to undecided union
members, retirees, other segments urging support for Dinkins; memo re
need for ad answering tax charges, TV ad script for Dinkins; memos re
poll results from PR consultants Geto & deMilly; Ed Koch direct-mail
campaign letter; letter from Liberal Party of New York State endorsing
Rudy Giuliani; Dinkins position on the Middle East; statement by Mazur
endorsing Dinkins, Dinkins speech accepting ILGWU endorsement
Ditchley Foundation (England)Memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re invitation
to Starobin to participate in Ditchley meeting on exchange rates,
January 15, 1988; memo to Mazur from ILGWU staffer Michael Hirsch asking
permission to attend Ditchley conference on health care systems, May 11,
1993; memo to Mazur from Starobin re role of Eastern Europe as a
low-cost source of labor for the European Economic Community, June 18,
1990; satirical article about Ditchley and other high-level conferences,
by Lord Chalfont, November 8, 1989, summaries of conference themes;
copies of the Ditchley Journal, with articles highlighted, "The Roots of
Urban Change," by Peter Hall, Spring 1978, and "The City: Whose Problem,
Whose Job?" by Simon Jenkins, Autumn 1976; copies of the Ditchley
Ditchley Foundation, Mazur presentationLetter of invitation to Mazur from American Ditchley Foundation to
participate in conference, "Elements of Change in International
Relations: A Foreign Policy Agenda for the 1990s," to be held June
21-24, 1990, with attached outline of topics, November 15, 1989; memo to
Mazur from ILGWU vp Gus Tyler warning of being stereotyped, outlining
talking points re protectionism, June 4, 1990; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
research director Herman Starobin with attached analysis and drafts for
presentation on economic issues for conference, June 4, 1990; follow-up
analysis by Starobin, June 18, 1990
Ditchley Foundation, American Ditchley FoundationAgendas and minutes of annual meetings of the board of directors, April
27, 1989, and April 5, 1990; minutes of the special meeting, September
28, 1988, which notes a resolution that Ditchley conferences are not for
probing or negotiation on issues, but are to be gatherings of
like-minded individuals; agenda and minutes of special meeting September
26, 1989; financial statements as of December 31, 1988 and 1987, and
list of contributors; letters to Mazur from American Ditchley Foundation
soliciting contributions from AFL-CIO and ILGWU, with replies noting
that contributions had already been made, October 2 and 4, 1990;
calendars of conferences and topics January 1988 to December 1991; list
of other subjects for possible inclusion in programs; memo to Mazur from
ILGWU exec asst James Parrott summarizing Ditchley conference on urban
regeneration, February 7, 1989; drafts of discussion topics for upcoming
conference, "Security at a Lower Level of Armaments: Conventional Arms
Control Issues Confronting the North Atlantic Alliance," February 16,
1989, and "The Oversight of and the Limits on Intelligence Work in a
Democracy," October 7-9, 1989; letter from Mazur to administrative
director of American Ditchley Foundation re conference report on
military crackdown on Tiananmen Square rally and lack of mention of
execution of organized workers by Chinese government, possible fear of
strikes as precipitating factor in crushing the democracy movement,
September 28, 1989
Ditchley Foundation, American Ditchley FoundationList of members of the Ditchley Foundations, including the American
Ditchley Foundation, as of September 1, 1993; agenda for annual meeting
of directors, March 25, 1992; agenda for special meeting of the
directors, October 10, 1990; schedule of conferences from September 1990
to December 1991; minutes of annual meetings of April 5, 1990, April 18,
1991, and March 30, 1993; agenda and minutes of special meeting,
September 26, 1991; agenda of special meeting, September 29, 1993;
auditor's statement, March 1, 1990; minutes of the joint meeting of
program committees, July 6, 1991; correspondence from Mazur re upcoming
conferences; letter from Mazur suggesting topic on nongovernmental
forces undermining the nation state, threatening quality of life,
January 5, 1993; minutes of the British Programme Committee, October 19,
1993; handwritten notes by Mazur; solicitations for financial
contributions; summary of contributions as of November 10, 1993
Ditchley Foundation, ancillary publicationsPrinted reports by non-Ditchley think-tanks and press sources on issues
related to those discussed at Ditchley conferences: "Man and His
Environment," occasional paper by the British-North American Committee,
June 1990; "World Policy: Targeting National Needs," reprinted from
World Policy Journal, spring 1990; "Changing Sources of U.S. Economic
Growth, 1950-2010: A Chartbook of Trends and Projections," National
Planning Association, 1990; "Social Policy: Looking Backward, Looking
Forward," National Academy of Social Insurance summary of seminar on the
Ford Foundation Report, The Common Good, November 1, 1989; occasional
paper of the Atlantic Council of the United States, "Saving Perestroika:
Gorbachev's Next Steps," by Jan M. Lodal, 1990; Bulletin of the
Department of International Affairs, AFL-CIO, January 1990; Freedom
House magazine, Freedom at Issue, March/April 1990; magazines, The New
Leader, February 5-19 and March 19, 1990; newsletter, News from the
Center for National Policy, volume 1, 1990; U.S. News & World Report
cover story, "Back to the Future in China," March 12, 1990; Europe
article, "Lending a Helping Hand: The E.C. Takes the Leading Role in
Assisting Eastern Europe," March 1990; summary of international press
reports re Eastern Europe, forwarded by the general secretary of the
International Trade, Garment & Leather Workers' Federation ,
February 16, 1990
Dominican Republic"Foreign Labor Trends: Dominican Republic," prepared by the American
Embassy, Santo Domingo, released by the U.S. Department of Labor,
1990-91, describing political and economic overview, labor history;
labor relations with U.S. and other companies, wage statistics,
directory of labor organizations; unsigned "Report on the Visit to the
Dominican Republic, April 3-7, 1990," re participation in seminar by
FITITVC on free trade zones and contacts with labor activists; letter to
Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re invitation to observe
elections in Dominican Republic, March 22, 1990; memo from AFL-CIO
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) re follow-up
activities in organizing drive, list of Dominican companies by industry,
November 7, 1990; printed official guide to XI Congress of the
Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores Dominicanos, December 5-6, 1992;
Export-Free Zones National Council: Law 8-90 Encouraging the
Establishment of New Free Zones and the Growth of Existing New Ones,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; AFL-CIO AIFLD memo re two-week
seminar, Organizing in the Export Production Zones, to be held in the
Dominican Republic, cosponsored by ILGWU, ACTWU, and FITITVC, February
5, 1993; AIFLD Special Report: Worker Rights in the Dominican Republic
Free Trade Zones, November 1, 1991; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
international relations director Michele Briones re Strategies for
International Solidarity: Case in Point: Dominican Republic," with
attached resolution, "International Labor Solidarity," adopted by ILGWU
International Affairs Committee, endorsing strengthening links with
ITGLWF, August 5, 1992; letter to Mazur from U.S. Dept. of Labor re
Inter-American Symposium on Emerging Frameworks for Labor-Management
Cooperation, to be held in the Dominican Republic, January 27, 1993;
confidential memos to Mazur re Dominican Republic trip to assist in
organizing efforts, May-June, 1993; memo to Mazur re Caribbean
Organizing Seminar, with attached list of Caribbean plants of U.S. firms
and seminar draft proposal, January 13, 1993; memos re trip,
January-March 1993; translation and original Spanish letter to Mazur
from National Confederation of Dominican Workers re workers abuses,
particularly by Liz Claiborne contractor, October 11, 1993; letter from
ILGWU Local 23-25 manager and vp Edgar Romney to the chairman of Liz
Claiborne re worker abuses at Liz Claiborne contractor in Dominican
Republic, October 13, 1993; letters to Mazur and ILG organizer from
AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) noting
abuses by Undergarment Fashions, apparent Dominican contractor for
Maidenform and Christian Dior, January 15 and 30, 1991; letters from
Mazur to Maidenform, Christian Dior, and Bestform executives re worker
abuses by their contractor in Dominican Republic, February 4 and 27,
1991; faxes and phone messages from Maidenform and Christian Dior
executives noting error, February 4 and 12, 1991; confidential memo to
Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones re
confidential report of trip to Dominican Republic by AIFLD official,
ideological competition within labor movement there, with supporting
attachments, March 14, 1991; Bulletin of the Department of International
Affairs, AFL-CIO, December 12,1992; Spanish-language edition of ILGWU
Justice (Justicia), 1993
Dominican Repubilc--GSPLetter to Mazur from AFL-CIO director of international affairs re workers
in free trade zones in the Dominican Republic being denied rights to
organize by U.S. firms Westinghouse, GTE, and Hanes, with attached
"Update on Campaign for Worker Rights in the Dominican Republic,"
January 4,1991, and letters to officials re deteriorating situation,
urging withdrawal of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade
status; letter from AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor
Development (AIFLD) updating on events in Dominican Republic, noting
employer counterattack against efforts to revoke GSP status, February
28, 1991, with translations of press accounts; letter to Secretary of
State James Baker from AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland urging suspension of GSP
status for Dominican Republic, March 22, 1991, with cover note to Mazur;
letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO AIFLD) re announcement by U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills of continuing GSP status for Dominican
Republic, with attached USTR report, "Generalized System of Preferences
of the Trade Policy Staff Committee: 1990 Annual Reviews: Worker Rights
Review Summary: The Dominican Republic, April 1991"; press release,
"Kantor Announces Results of 1992 GSP Reviews: Emphasis on Worker Rights
is Underscored," June 25, 1993; memos from Mazur to ILGWU legislative
director Evelyn Dubrow and research director Herman Starobin asking for
advice in lobbying on behalf of AFL-CIO petition for withdrawal of GSP
status of Dominican Republic, reply from Starobin, June 25, 1993;
newspaper clippings from Dominican press, with cover fax from AIFLD
field rep urging full court press by AFL-CIO to bring about historic
change, June 28, 1993; letter from Mazur to the executive director of
Freedom House, with copy to Betty Bao Lord, asking for assistance in
lobbying the State Department on behalf of AFL-CIO petition for
withdrawal of GSP status, July 2, 1993; faxed letter from Mazur to the
U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, urging withdrawal of GSP
status, July 1, 1993; letter to Mazur from the U.S. Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic, clarifying distortions in the Dominican press re
petition to remove the county from GSP, July 2, 1993; letters from Mazur
to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and U.S. Trade Representative
Mickey Cantor in support of AFL-CIO petition urging withdrawal of
special trade privileges from the Dominican Republic, July 2, 1993;
letter to Mazur from U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Cantor thanking
him for giving his opinion that GSP status for the Dominican Republic
should be withdrawn, notes AFL-CIO petition is under review, August 2,
1993; letter to Mazur from presidential economic policy advisor Robert
Rubin thanking him for letter re withdrawal of GSP status for Dominican
Republic, July 30, 1993; draft of letter from Mazur to leaders of
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) urging that they
write to Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other Cabinet
officers in support of AFL-CIO petition that GSP trade status be
withdrawn for the Dominican Republic, July 27, 1993; letter from ICCR to
Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown urging withdrawal of special trade
privileges from Dominican Republic, August 12, 1993; letter from ILGWU
research director Herman Starobin to AIFLD director asking for
background in advance of meeting with Dominican ambassador to the U.S.,
December 3, 1993; memo to ILGWU vp Edgar Romney re fired Candelaria
union activists brought by AFL-CIO to testify in Congress re petition to
revoke GSP status, March 3, 1994
Drug abuse (conferences)Letter to Mazur from the Bureau of National Affairs, with attached press
advisory for "National Teleconference on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the
Workplace," February 13, 1987; letter to Sol Chaikin from the United
Nations Association in the United States of America (UNA-USA) re
conference, "Strategies for Community Action: Conference on Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking," January 23, 1987; letter to Mazur from the
George Meany Center for Labor Studies re conference, "Substance Abuse:
What Unions Need to Know," March 10, 1992; Ditchley Conference Report,
"Drugs: The Threat and the Response," held March 1991; newspaper
clipping re Nicole Miller with note to Mazur, "This is the same firm
that did the drug testing" October 8, 1986
Dunlop CommissionSee also Labor Law Reform; see also Speeches - Donahue - Dunlop
Commission; see also Evolution of Work Committee Memo to Mazur from Gus
Tyler re impact of commission (Commission on the Future of
Worker-Management Relations, aka Dunlop Commission), appointed by Pres.
Clinton and headed by former secretary of Labor John Dunlop, in
examining labor law and practices, warning that corporate destruction of
unions will destroy America, February 8, 1994; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
exec asst James Parrott re meeting with Dunlop, $1.3 million grant from
Sloan Foundation to Dunlop's Center for Business and Government at
Harvard to study apparel industry, suggesting areas of research,
November 14, 1990; memo to ILGWU general counsel Max Zimny and other
staff officers from Carl Proper, director of Council for American
Fashion (CAF), re upcoming testimony of Mazur before Dunlop Commission,
with attached questions for Legal Department, July 11, 1994; memo from
Proper to Zimny and others asking for suggestions for Dunlop Commission
re protecting worker interests in contracting or other contingent worker
situations, April 26, 1994; letter to John Dunlop from Mazur re
contracting out, April 19, 1994; memo to National Planning Association
from AFL-CIO official Markley Roberts, commenting on NPA report, "The
Restructuring of Employment," relating it to Dunlop Commission findings,
with attached highlights of commission report, June 2, 1994; newspaper
Economic Policy Council (EPC)See also United Nations Association of the United States of America Part
of the United Nations Association of the USA. Draft summary conclusions
of the foreign direct investment panel, November 16, 1989, with list of
members and correspondence with Mazur; letter to Mazur from ACTWU
president Jack Sheinkman, co-chairman of EPC, thanking him for
Economic Policy Council (EPC) meeting, November 20Preliminary working draft report, "U.S. Policy toward the Newly Emerging
Industrial Countries," to be distributed for May 19, 1986, meeting;
draft, "Conclusions and Recommendations" section, with cover letter to
Mazur soliciting comment, July 23, 1986; comments on preliminary working
draft #2, October 30, 1986; draft report for final review, June 22,
1987; paper given by Mazur, "A Labor Perspective on U.S. Policy Toward
Newly Industrialized Countries," May 19, 1986; comments by Mazur re
recession, trade, "Comments Submitted to the Conference Board Human
Resources Outlook Panel: Responses to Questions Posed by the Conference
Board," October 1986; letter from ILG official Gus Tyler predicting that
a top-heavy global economy could result in bloody and bestial political
explosions, and the prime victim will be the free enterprise system,
October 8, 1986; handwritten notes by Mazur
HomeworkSee also Triangle Fire Commemoration 1988 "Notes on a Strategy for
Industrial Homework," by ILGWU vp Susan Cowell, December 28, 1988; ILGWU
press release, "Union to Fight Move by Reagan and Bush Administration
Toward Upsetting a Ban on Industrial Homework in Women's Apparel,"
December 30, 1988; ILGWU press release, ""ILGWU Will Sue to Keep
Prohibition Against Industrial Homework, " November 9, 1988; note cards,
"Key Dates and Sequence of Industrial Homework Events"; memo to Mazur
and others from ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow, "What
Congressman Austin Murphy Is Doing on Homework," April 23, 1988; press
release, "ILGWU Head Assails Administration on Move to Legalize
Industrial Homework; Mazur Says Action 'Nullifies Minimum Wage' and
Supports 'Sweatshop Conditions," March 25, 1988; newspaper clippings
Homework--Steve Pollack (Shea and Gardner)See also Speeches - Homework Draft of new rules proposed by Department of
Labor lifting ban on homework, with attached draft ILGWU press release
denouncing move, March 24, 1988; Federal Register Department of Labor
proposed rule, March 30; Notice of Proposed Rule Making re difference
between new Dept. of Labor proposal and 1986 proposal, on Shea &
Gardner stationery, March 31; press release, "ILGWU Head Assails
Administration on Move to Legalize Industrial Homework," March 25; press
release, "Firefighters Salute Victims of Triangle Disaster as ILGWU
Leader Blasts Reagan Administration for 'Supporting Sweatshop
Conditions' in Decision to Allow Industrial Homework," March 25; article
by Gus Tyler, "Reagan's Secret War Against the Working Poor," with
attached cover note from Tyler to Mazur; questions and answers developed
for Mazur re industrial homework, n.d.; profile of homework
investigations, FY 1987, by industry; letter from Mazur to Labor
Secretary Ann McLaughlin protesting failure of department to give
opportunity to review and comment on lifting ban, March 28; letters to
U.S. Department of Labor from NYS Department of Labor commenting on
proposed rulemaking, describing unenforceability of wage and other fair
labor standards, urging retention of ban, with cover letter to Mazur,
May 12; Bureau of National Affairs Daily Labor Report, "ILGWU Seeks
Probe of FLSA [Fair Labor Standards Act] Enforcement," March 31;
newspaper clippings re industrial homework, with cover memo to Mazur
from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell, May 20, 1988; other clippings; handwritten
notes by Mazur
HomeworkLetters from Senators and members of Congress responding to flyers mailed
by constituents supporting continued ban on industrial homework or
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; memos to ILGWU legislative
director Evelyn Dubrow from Rinaldo Panetta, coordinator of Roll Back
Imports campaign, noting mailing of flyers to lawmakers
HomeworkCopies of "Homework: A Return to the Industrial Dark Ages of Sweatshops
and No Protections," reprinted from the AFL-CIO Federationist, August 2,
1986; written comments by homeworkers, factory owners, and others, and
other documentation, including help-wanted ads, "Illegal Homework
Advertized Blatantly in Newspapers," submitted to hearings by House
Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Labor Standards;
statement by Mazur before committee, September 16; statement by ACTWU
secretary-treasurer Jack Sheinkman; statement by Leonard Gilberg,
executive director of Fashion Apparel Manufacturers Association;
prepared statement by homeworkers; opening statement by committee
chairman Austin Murphy; ILGWU fact sheet on homework
HomeworkLetters to Department of Labor from unions, nonprofit organizations, and
other parties, objecting to proposed changes lifting ban
HomeworkLetter from ILGWU president Sol Chaikin to Secretary of Labor William
Brock, re need for enforcement of homework ban on knitted outerwear,
March 1986; draft of proposed rule allowing homework, with memo to Mazur
re complaint against Bordeau, Inc., Clarinda, Iowa, and resulting effort
by Iowa congressman Jim Lightfoot to change the rules, July 3, 1986;
strictly confidential memo to Mazur and Chaikin from ILGWU counsel Max
Zimny reporting on meeting with Wage and Hour Administration re its
plans to lift homework ban, June 17, 1986; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
attorneys Shea & Gardner reporting on meeting with Labor Secretary
Brock re plans to lift homework ban, July 11, 1986; Shea & Gardner
talking points for meeting with Secretary Brock, July 9, 1986; Shea
& Gardner timeline of key dates in homework ban since 1943, July 6,
1986; statement by ILGWU in Opposition to the Removal of Restrictions on
Industrial Homework in the Knitted Outerwear Industry, before the U.S.
Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour
Division, May 11, 1984; drafts of Mazur's article, "Homework: Return to
the Industrial Dark Ages"; draft of homework press release by Mazur,
August 1986; National NOW Times article by ILGWU legislative director
Evelyn Dubrow, "The Case Against Industrial Homework," April 1987;
speech outline/notes re homework, freedom to work, n.d.; handwritten
notes by Mazur (and Chaikin?); newspaper clippings
Hooks, BenjaminIntroductory speech by Mazur, noting history of ILGWU with NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), of which
Hooks was executive director
Hormel and Company,United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
StrikeUnited Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Executive Board
Statement on Local P-9 Strike (Austin, MN) against Hormel, decrying
militancy, February 13, 1986; special report
Hynes, Charles J., campaignDraft of letter from Mazur urging ILGWU members to vote for Brooklyn
district attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes for NYS attorney general, 1994,
July 12, 1994; letter from Hynes campaign to Mazur with first draft of
letter, June 20, 1994
Immigration-Council on Foreign RelationsLetter to Mazur from Council on Foreign Relations inviting him to comment
on evolution of labor's position on immigration at next study group,
February 23, 1995; summaries of papers for discussion; talking points
for Mazur on papers under discussion by Council of Foreign Relations;
copies of papers to be discussed, including "Contemporary American
Attitudes Toward U.S. Immigration," by Thomas J. Espenshade and
Katherine Hempstead, Office of Population Research, Princeton
University, February 1995; "The Economic Impact of Immigration," by
George J. Borjas; statements by AFL-CIO Executive Council, "The Attack
on Working Americans" and "Immigration and the American Dream," February
1995; transcript of National Press Club luncheon with speaker Gov. Mario
Cuomo of New York, December 16, 1994; memo to Mazur from Muzaffar
Chishti with attached letter from American Forum for Global Education,
May 22, 1995; talking points by Mazur; handwritten notes by Mazur
Immigration, National Immigration ForumMemos re pending legislation; materials sent under previous name,
National Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Forum, 1990-92,
including board of directors meeting agenda, January 26, 1990
ImmigrationCorrespondence re legislation to stop deportation of Salvadorans and
Nicaraguans; statement by Mazur re negative effects of Immigration and
Control Act of 1986, need for new law, October 13, 1989
ImmigrationMemo to Mazur from Muzaffar Chishti re status of immigration bill and
Schumer proposal giving permanent status to agricultural workers, July
21, 1986; report to manager of Local 23-25 re Immigration Project for
second quarter 1986; ad for book, Undocumented Aliens in the New York
Metropolitan Area: An Exploration into Their Social and Labor Market
Incorporation, by D. Papademetriois and N. DiMarzio
Immigration-Employer sanctionsMemos re status of legislation, 1984-1990; letter from Mazur to AFL-CIO
secretary-treasurer Tom Donahue expressing concern over discrimination,
March 19, 1990; handwritten notes
Importssee also Trade; see also Textile and Apparel Trade Graph projecting
relative change in textile imports and U.S. production through year
2000, from Milliken & Company, August 18, 1989; ILGWU publication,
"The Import Problem," excerpted from the General Executive Board
meeting, May 30-June 6, 1986; "Import Penetration in the Apparel
Industry: A Technical Study," prepared for the Fiber, Fabric and Apparel
Coalition for Trade, September 1988; correspondence requesting sharing
expenses for video re Saipan and the Northern Marianas Islands as an
apparel production center to evade import restrictions, produced by the
American Apparel Manufacturers Association, January 1988; press release
from the American Textile Manufacturers Association, "Textile and
Apparel Imports Accelerate," June 15, 1989; transcript of Associated
Press (AP) wire story re rally at White House by textile workers in
support of bill curbing imports, September 13, 1990; newspaper
Imports, rollback campaignSee also Trade; see also Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of
1985 Memos to ILGWU regional directors re lobbying and other strategy
for campaign, 1984-85; memo from Sol Chaikin to President Stulberg
proposing national campaign against imports, August 2, 1971; memo to
Mazur re status of resolution in Congress, December 7, 1984; sample
petitions in English, Spanish, and Chinese, with ad samples targeted to
four ethnic groups; memos re petition campaign, including number of
signatures gathered by local, and how to physically deliver them to
Congress or White House, 1985; handwritten letter to Mazur from members
at Gerard Mills and other Hazletown, PA, firms re their efforts to
publicize need to buy American, November 17, 1986; handwritten notes by
Import Task ForceSee also ILGWU Legislative Department; see also Textile & Apparel
Trade; see also NAFTA Minutes of Import Task Force meeting of February
29, 1988, with cover note to Mazur by ILGWU vp Gus Tyler; note to Mazur
from Tyler summarizing actions of Import Task Force meeting of April 5,
1988; letter from Tyler convening first meeting, with schedule of
subsequent meetings, attached list of members, June 10, 1987
Industrial PolicyAnnouncement by Jeff Faux and Roger Hickey of establishment of Project on
Industrial Policy and Democracy; response by ILGWU assistant president
Gus Tyler, suggesting meeting, September 15, 1983, with attached article
by Tyler, "The Threat of a U.S. Without Factories," AFL-CIO American
Federationist, April 1976; printed paper by AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Department (IUD), "Rebuilding America: A National Industrial Policy," c.
1984; memo to IUD Reindustrialization Committee, December 24, 1984,
referring to paper by Harvard Business School professors George Lodge
and Bruce Scott; unsigned, undated (c. 1984) policy paper, National
Industrial Policy
Federation Internationale de Trabajadores del Textil, Vestuario y
Cuero (FITITVC), Interamerican Textile, Leather,Garment, and Shoe
Workers Federation, Carcas, Venezuela, August 23See also Speeches - FITTVCC 1998 (Earlier name was translated from the
Spanish - Federacion Interamericana de Trabajadores de la Industria
Textil, Vestuario, Cuero y Calzado - as Interamerican Textile, Leather,
Garment & Shoe Workers Federation) Memos from ILGWU International
Relations director Michele Briones re conversations and meetings with
FITITVC officials; report probably by Briones re trip to Venezuela,
August 23-28, 1989; resolution by FITITVC, "The International Debt
Problem," calling on the International Monetary Fund to stop imposing
policies on debtor countries that promote economic austerity and
FITITVC Executive Committee, Puerto Rico, April 15-16Agenda of Executive Committee meeting, Ponce de Leon, Puerto Rico; memos
to Mazur from Michele Briones re meetings with executive committee
members and relationship between the ILGWU, FITITVC, and ITGLWF; outline
of welcoming address by Mazur, drafted by Briones; handwritten notes
FITITVC, Interamerican Textile, Leather,Garment, and Shoe Workers
Federation,(Note later English name change to Interamerican Textile, Garment,
Leather & Shoe Workers Federation) Memo from Michele Briones,
director of ILGWU International Relations Department, re discussion with
FITITVC re its affiliation with ITGLWF, nonpayment of dues, apparent
disingenuousness, Dec. 15, 1987; text of speech by Mazur to the 20th
anniversary conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, noting decline in
U.S. living standards, opposition to imports, 1987; background
information for conference re labor profiles of Argentina and Brazil,
scholarly articles from Current History re Latin America, list of trade
union officials attending, Feb. 25, 1987
FITITVCReport of trip to FITITVC conference in Mexico by Michele Briones,
assistant director of ILGWU International Relations Department, Oct. 28,
1986, with newspaper clippings to Mazur's attention; nomination of
Clifford Depin to FITITVC Executive Committee, Feb 3, 1986, with
constitution and statutes of FITITVC (1980); memo from Briones re agenda
and preparations for FITITVC Executive Committee meeting in NY, with
estimated budget, May 7-9, 1986; memo from Mazur to Herman Starobin re
meeting; memo from Briones re twentieth anniversary conference, and
agenda (1987, in Spanish); background paper on FITITVC from Briones to
Mazur with list of Executive Committee, Feb. 18, 1986; memo re letter by
ACTWU against aid to Nicaraguan Contras, Mar. 5, 1986
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU)Annual surveys of violations of trade union rights, 1989 and 1990; speech
by ICFTU general secretary Enzo Friso, "Globalizing Economy and
International Labour Standards," presented to ICFTU economic conference
in Thailand, June 27-18, 1993; invitations to meetings; confidential
executive board agenda items/minutes discussing African and South
American affairs, 1986
International Labor Office (ILO)
International Labor Program (Georgetown University)See also Labor Desk 1984 Speech delivered at Lisbon conference,
"Democratic Challenge in Latin America," by Max Kampelman, June 30,
1984, with cover letter to Mazur from Roy Godson, director,
International Labor Program, Georgetown University; description of
program activities and budget, noting request for contribution,
September 1, 1983; printed booklet, "Serving American Workers: The
International Labor Organization," c. 1985; newspaper clipping
International Labor Rights Education and Research
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF)Summary and detailed agenda, financial statements, reports re Uruguay
Round of GATT trade negotiations, industrial homework, child labor,
women, country updates, April 26-27
ITGLWFMemos from general secretary Neal Kierney re minimum wage in
industrialized countries, October 27, 1994; China; ILO Convention and
Recommendations on Home Work; printed booklet by China Labor Education
and Information Centre, "Behind the Boom: Working Conditions in the
Textile, Garment and Toy Industries in China," 1995; testimony of Dr.
Herman Starobin, director of research, ILGWU, before the Committee for
Implementation of Trade Agreements, re proposed list of products for
second and third phase integration of textile and apparel products into
the World trade Organization, March 20, 1995; copies of China Labour
Bulletin, October and November 1995
ITGLWFLetter to Mazur from ITGLWF general secretary Neil Kearney inquiring
about which U.S. unions would be appropriate to approach for membership,
June 22, 1993; letter from Mazur to Kearney re ILGWU and ACTWU efforts
to organize workers in Central American Free Trade Zones, March 10,
1993; letter to Mazur from Kearney re declaration of "Month of Action"
for December 1993, in support of inclusion of a social clause in GATT;
draft by Michele Briones for Mazur, "Linking Trade to Worker Rights:
Developing Mechanisms to Enforce Internationally Agreed Standards on
Workers Rights"; related draft (?), "Outline for Discussion of Trade and
Worker Rights"; correspondence re Presidium meetings in Brussels and
Cape Town, South Africa; letters between Mazur, ACTWU president Jack
Sheinkman, and Kearney re future funding of FITTVCC, January-March
ITGLWF Presidium Meeting, BrusselsDetailed minutes; resolutions re Uruguay Round of GATT trade
ITGLWF 6th World Congress, OctoberCorrespondence between Mazur and others re proposed resolutions; speech
by Mazur appealing for contributions to solidarity fund
ITGLWFPosition paper, "No Integration, Without Labor Participation," First
Summit of the Textile and Apparel Unions of the Americas to Analyze
Social and Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere; letter to
Mazur from ITGLWF general secretary Neil Kearney re difficult organizing
efforts by Sintracostura in Honduras, requesting information about the
Loveable Company in San Pedro Sula, with information from Mazur
attached, June 1991; routine correspondence
ITGLWF, Central and Eastern EuropeMemo to affiliates in industrialized countries calling for experienced
trade unionists to assist new textile unions in Czechoslovakia, January
16, 1991, with note to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director
Michele Briones
ITGLWF Presidium Meeting, CaracasPrinted booklet, special report on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary
of the Year of the Child, "Still so far to go: Child labour in the world
today," International Labour Office, Geneva, 1989; booklet, "Guidelines
for applications for financial support from Nordic Unions to the trade
union movement in developing countries," by labor councils of Denmark,
Finland, Norway, and Sweden, June 1989; minutes of 1990 Presidium
meeting in Brussels; Caracas, Venezuela, meeting agenda, country and
regional reports, financial reports, related correspondence
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF), November 27-29Memo from ILGWU International Relations director Michele Briones re
likely German presidency of ITGLWF, attached memo to Mazur from Berthold
Keller; memo to Mazur re bomb threat, new security measures, August 6,
1990; extended agenda of Executive Committee meeting held at Cairo,
Egypt, and text of resolutions and reports: minutes of meeting held in
Tokyo, September 25, 1988; election of additional Presidium members;
general secretary's report; proposed budgets for 1990 and 1991; levies
received from member nations, 1988 and 1989; description of new levy
system; education secretary's report
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF), November 27-29Continuation of meeting agenda: Solidarity action; Report from the
Interamerican Textile, Leather, Garment and Shoe Workers Federation
(FITITVC); Report on activities of TWARO; Report of the European
Regional Organisation; Report on Trade Union Situation in Selected
Countries (Japan; Portugal); Ratification of Application for Affiliation
(Finland; Bangladesh); consideration of Portugal as venue for 6th World
Congress; health and safety program; child labor; freedom of association
and protection of the right to organize; human and trade union rights;
U.S. approach to trade and worker rights; Remarks by Jay Mazur,
President, ILGWU, before the (AFL-CIO) I.U.D. (Industrial Union
Department) Conference on Health and Safety in Organizing, Atlanta,
Georgia, March 16, 1989
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF), 5th World Congress, September 26-30See also Textile; see also NAFTA; see also Globalization Agenda; changes
to ITGLWF Rules; reports of affiliated member nations; list of new
members of the Presidium and Executive Committee; speeches by Mazur:
remarks on the trade resolution and country report
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF)Letters from Mazur to the executive directors of AFL-CIO international
labor divisions (AIFLD, AAFLI, African-American Labor Center) with
attached description, "Health & Safety: A Programme for the 1990's,"
Fifth World Congress, Tokyo, 26-30 September 1988, and recommendation by
ILGWU to appoint Eric Bombart as research assistant to the project,
description of duties, request for funds committed to project, December
12, 1988; rules of the organization; nominations for membership on
Presidium and Executive Committee, correspondence re representation of
ILGWU; conference agendas, draft resolutions; memos re proposals to
reorganize Executive Committee and Presidium to represent less developed
countries; correspondence with Zensen (Japanese Federation of Textile,
Garment, Chemical, Mercantile and Allied Industry Workers' Unions); memo
from ILGWU international relations assistant director Michele Briones to
Mazur re agenda item re dues, political infighting; minutes of the
Presidium, Feb. 26-27, 1987; correspondence and charts listing dues from
member countries
International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF)Report by the Education Secretary on several African and Asian countries,
noting decision not to develop any new projects with Latin America until
differences with FITITVC have been resolved; agenda for Aug. 30-31,
1987, Presidium meeting and draft minutes of Feb. 26-27, 1987, meeting;
minutes of Aug. 30-31, 1987, meeting; applications for general secretary
from eight members of different nationalities; draft of ITGLWF World
Action Programme re human rights, wages, GATT, etc., Aug. 30-31, 1987;
survey on hourly wages in the textile industry of member nations,
1985-86, comparison since 1980, with narrative analysis; draft protocol
for renewal of the Multifiber Arrangement, sent to all affiliates;
handwritten notes by Mazur
JapanLetter to Mazur from the U.S. Counselor for Labor Affairs, U.S. Embassy
in Japan, with enclosed article from Japan Economic Journal (January 28,
1991) about a coat-making robot, January 24, 1991; article from Harvard
Business Review (September-October 1990), "Political Advantage: Japan's
Campaign for America," with cover letter from Mazur to Bobbi Sutton,
Vandalia, MO, October 5, 1990; article from Cornell Enterprise (business
school), "How the Game Is Played in Japan," summer/fall 1990; joint
statement: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, ZENSEN, 8th Joint Conference, 12-14
December 1994; routine correspondence
Japan importsList of estimated apparel production, imports and import penetration
valued in equivalent current U.S. dollars for every year 1968-1986
Japan Institute of LaborSee also Zensen Drafts of address by Richard Rumelt, assistant director,
ILGWU New England Region, to the JIL Prospective Trade Union Leaders
Invitation Program; related correspondence
Jewish Labor CommitteeLetter with attached materials identifying affiliates of Lyndon LaRouche,
press releases on several topics, October 1
Jobs with JusticeLetter to Mazur from ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman re initial
organization of Jobs with Justice campaign to educate public on trade
union issues, inviting him to attend planning meeting for rally on Wall
Street against corporate greed, September 28, 1987; letter to Mazur from
Morton Bahr, president, Communication Workers of America (CWA), and
Howard Samuel, president, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, updating
him on first year of Jobs with Justice campaign, noting plans for 1988,
anticipated expenditures, December 7, 1987; transcript, telephone news
conference, August 16, 1988, with cover memos to Mazur and others;
United Mine Workers Journal featuring Jobs with Justice rally, May 1988;
guidelines, newsletter, and press release re Labor Day activities, 1988;
letter from CWA re rally in support of newly organized Potomac Graphics
workers, in New York, June 22, 1989; memo re hiring paid staff
coordinator, September 1992; NLRB Action newspaper clippings, May 28,
Jobs with Justice, Health Care CampaignSee also Speeches - Jobs with Justice Health Care Campaign 1993 Flyers,
instruction sheets, and sample press releases for Jobs with Justice
Health Care Action Day, 1990; newsletter re Jobs with Justice National
Health Care Action Week, 1991; notes re crucial role of New York area
unions, New York rally kickoff of National Health Care Action Week, May
29 (1991?) meeting agenda, health care as Jobs with Justice #1 issue;
memo re conference on universal health care, December 2, 1993; statement
by Mazur at Jobs with Justice Health Care Conference, December 10, 1993;
related correspondence
Job Net Referral SystemMemo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re union's JobNet job
counseling and referral procedures; agenda for counselor training
Kamber GroupProposal to ILGWU for public relations services, with descriptive
material re firm, 1986; letter from Victor Kamber to president of
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) re hiring union
labor, June 20, 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re Kamber
suggestions for collaborating with ACTWU, March 31, 1986; "Modern Day
Snake Oil: Term Limitations & Why They Must Be Defeated," a report
by the Kamber Group, October 1991; Statement of George E. McDonald,
President of the Allied Printing Trades Council of Greater New York,
January 23, 1990; press release, "Unions on the Move to Save Jobs - And
the Daily News," January 23, 1990; letter to Mazur from Victor Kamber
offering assistance with boycott of Leslie Fay, June 24, 1994
Kennedy, John F.Presidential inauguration program, January 20, 1961; issue of ILGWU
Justice, re assassination, December 1, 1963; issue of ILGWU
Spanish-language Justicia, re campaign, November 1960; memorial program
for Kennedy and Herbert H. Lehman
Klein, Adam (Klein and Company)See also ILGWU (UNITE) - Merger - GEB Adam Klein Study 7/20/92 and
2/7/93; see also National Committee for Labor Israel Outline of goals
and detailed agenda for ILGWU Special General Executive Board Meeting on
ILGWU's Strategic Direction, July 20 - 22, 1992, faxed by Klein; outline
of remarks by Mazur for GEB Executive Session, July 20-22, 1992,
summarizing convention, with memo from James Parrott, July 17, 1992;
confidential memo to Mazur from Parrott re internal factions,
preparation for February GEB Executive Session, January 20, 1992; letter
of reference for Klein to Confederation of Health Service Employees,
England, October 16, 1992; letter to Klein from ILGWU general
secretary-treasurer Irwin Solomon expressing dismay over his having
missed a strategic planning meeting, asserting that he should be
responsible for cost of meeting and reimbursing union for most of
uncompleted consulting project, February 12, 1993
Koch, Ed (NYC Mayor)See also NYC - Industrial Loft Advisory Council; NYC - Commercial Rent
Control; NYC 1984-1986 Outline for Manager's Meeting, March 8, 1989,
listing reasons for ILGWU support of Dinkins candidacy over Koch;
Statement by Theodore W. Kheel on Why I've Joined "Democrats for
Guiliani If Koch Wins the Democratic Primary," April 2, 1989; letter
from Mazur to Mayor Koch protesting his failure to march in Labor Day
parade, September 6, 1988; Testimony of Edward I. Koch Before the City
Council Committee on Relation and Special Event [sic] re discrimination
against undocumented immigrants, December 22, 1988, with cover letter to
Mazur, February 3, 1989; letter from Mazur to Koch urging support for
Intro. 1088-A, protecting the health of video display terminal (VDT)
users, December 15, 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James
Parrott re Koch support for weaker, alternative commercial (retail-only)
rent control bill, August 2, 1989, with attached clipping from Crain's
New York Business; statement by Koch against commercial rent control,
May 7, 1985; statement from the garment industry on Mayor Koch's
proposed commission to study commercial rent control, May 9, 1985;
newspaper clipping from Daily News
KoretMemorandum to Mazur from Mattie Jackson re import proposal, July 23,
1985; proposed language changes to agreement re imports
Labor, U.S. Department ofRemarks by Labor Secretary Robert Reich, "The Revolt of the Anxious
Class," to the Democratic Leadership Council, November 22, 1994; letters
from the NYS Department of Labor thanking ILGWU associate director of
research Walter Mankoff for serving on Minimum Wage Advisory Panel,
September - December 1994; report to Mazur and Susan Cowell re Reich
press briefing, September 14, 1994; letters to Mazur from U.S. Dept. of
Labor re rulemaking changes re running for union office
Labor Advisory Committee for Trade NegotiationsSee also AFL-CIO Trade - Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations
1992-1998 Letter from U.S. Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole and U.S.
Trade Representative Carla Hills inviting Mazur to serve on the Labor
Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy, providing
advice to the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Labor on
international trade negotiations and U.S. trade policy, August 23, 1990,
with attached description of subcommittee structure of Labor Advisory
Committee; agenda for meeting of September 14, 1988, with cover letter
to Mazur re attached memo "for official use only," outlining the status
of the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations, and press releases, "Fact
Sheet" from White House promoting the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1988, and remarks of President Reagan at signing of the bill,
August 23, 1988; background material on oilseed production issues, U.S.
- European Community Agreement on Agriculture and the Uruguay Round,
November 24, 1992; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re strategic
approaches to union's trade position under the Clinton administration,
November 12, 1992
Labor Committee for Pacific AffairsSee also Labor Desk - United States Youth Council 1984 Minutes of
inaugural meeting of trade union leaders from Australia, New Zealand,
Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the U.S.; confidential report of planning
team, 1983; Regional Agenda, report by Michael Easson, ACTU Delegate to
the Asian and Pacific Workers' Education ILO Seminar on the Social and
Economic Services of Trade Unions, 1983; Process, official newsletter of
the New Zealand Food Processing and Chemical Workers Union, September
1983; Australian Foreign Affairs Record, August 1983; correspondence;
newspaper clippings
Labor Day ParadeMemo to Mazur and others reporting on local Labor Day activities at West
Invitations to Mazur to attend breakfast, march as member of honor guard
in Labor Day Parade, July 12 and 23, 1993; press release by New York
City Central Labor Council re Labor Day Parade, August 1993
Labor Day ParadeMemo from New York City Central Labor Council re 1990 theme, Decent and
Affordable Health Care for All, with line of march of participating
unions, July 25, 1990; News from the UAW press release, with president
Owen Bieber's Labor Day message, August 24, 1990; 13-page transcript of
AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland's Labor Day Conversation with Reporters,
August 23, 1990
Labor Day ParadeClipping, front page of IBEW Electrical Union World, "Labor Day Parade:
Jay Mazur Grand Marshal," with list of participating Local 3 divisions,
August 15, 1988, and clipping covering event, September 21; front page
of New York Observer with photo of Chinatown marchers in ILGWU T-shirts,
September 12, 1988; sample of parade poster, with letter from official
printer soliciting orders, July 14; invitation from New York City
Central Labor Council to Mayor Ed Koch to join officials at parade, with
reply declining invitation, August 18 and 22; Daily News press clipping
re hostile reception for Ed Koch at West Indian Day (local Labor Day)
parade in Brooklyn, September 6; letter from Gov. Michael Dukakis's
presidential campaign office declining invitation, August 24; lists of
labor and political officials at Labor Day Breakfast, September 8; Mazur
speech at breakfast; list of scheduled dates and times of Labor Day
commercial broadcasts, with thanks to those who contributed, August 23,
1988; memos from Mazur to New York City locals noting contribution
expected from each to offset ILGWU expenses, November 9, 1988; list of
contributions by unions for radio ad campaign, August 31; memo to Mazur
re planning outline; revised schedule for planning meeting, July 12;
list of line of march of participating unions, August 2; memo, press
release, and related materials re Jobs with Justice Labor Day
activities, August 23; routine correspondence
Labor Day ActivitiesMemo to Mazur re Dinkins campaign update, July 21, 1989, and Labor Rally
for David Dinkins scheduled for September 6, 1989; memo re plans for
Housing Now National March on Washington scheduled for October 7, 1989,
noting plans to participate in Labor Day Parade
Labor DayColumn by Mazur for Justice re new initiatives to increase union
strength, including Associate Membership, for members who lose their
jobs or whose shops have been unable to get a union contract
Labor Day ParadeSpeech by Mazur reciting anti-labor actions by major employers across the
country, July 26
Labor Day ParadeFinancial records; list of slogans
Labor Day ParadeAgenda of activities; letter from Mazur suggesting new approach; related
correspondence; newspaper clippings
Labor Day ParadeMemo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re need to draw more crowds as
spectators at Labor Day parades, September 23, 1983; letter to Mazur
from parade coordinator, saying that parade was resounding success,
September 8; minutes of national advisory committee meeting; outline of
video recording of parade by Allen Tobias, Creative Developments; list
of coordinators; related correspondence; financial records
Labor Desk, United States Youth Council (USYC)See also International Labor Program, Georgetown University 1983-1985;
see also Labor Committee for Pacific Affairs 1983-1984 International
organization supporting democratic labor unions; correspondence
Labor Desk, United States Youth Council (USYC)Advisory Committee minutes, correspondence
Labor Desk, United States Youth Council (USYC), Executive
CommitteeTalking points for meeting of February 5; meeting agendas and minutes;
Labor Law for Law Enforcement OfficersLetter from Mazur to NYS Attorney General Robert Abrams calling his
attention to a publication created by the Delaware attorney general for
distribution to law enforcement officers called to the scene of labor
disputes, encouraging neutrality, August 30, 1990 (booklet not
Labor Law Reformsee also Dunlop, John; see also Speeches - Donahue - Dunlop Commission
Executive summary of report by AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department
(IUD), "Democracy on the Job: America's Path to a Just, High Skill, High
Wage Economy: An Agenda for Labor Law Reform"; draft of full report for
final review, with cover letter from Richard Trumka and Elmer Chatak,
August 19, 1993; draft of memo to Tom Donahue from Mazur, expressing
concern over weakening section 8 (a) 12 of NLRA (prohibition against
company-dominated unions), June 28, 1993; long letter from Mazur to John
Dunlop, chair, Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations
("Dunlop Commission") re nature of jobber-contractor relationship,
outsourcing in garment industry as technique for escaping responsibility
for working conditions, April 29, 1994; memo to Mazur from Carl Proper
(former ILG exec asst and director of Council for American Fashion, CAF)
re IUD report, noting areas in need of strengthening, need to reverse
imbalance of power, need for strong unions to maintain middle class and
prevent reproduction of Third World economic and political conditions
here, commenting on reaction of Dunlop to Mazur's suggestions, listing
specific suggestions from other ILGWU sources, February 18, 1994; long
letter from ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler to Paula Voos,
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, re role of commission,
role of organized labor in maintaining standard of living "of that
larger union called the United States," March 11, 1994; memo to Mazur
from ILGWU general counsel Max Zimny re labor law reform (revised),
October 12, 1992; memo from Mazur to IUD president Elmer Chatak
outlining ILGWU recommendations for IUD consideration re NLRB reform,
December 15, 1992; report of the first meeting of the Dunlop Commission,
with cover memo to the AFL-CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work, June
8, 1993; report of the staff working groups on Organizing and Collective
Bargaining to the AFL-CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work, May 18,
1993; recommendations of the AFL-CIO to the Commission on the Future of
Worker Management relations: "Changes needed in the National Labor
Relations Act and related laws," September 8, 1994
Labor Law ReformLetter to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland from the president of the
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, urging that
labor speak with one voice in advocating for reforms under the new
Clinton administration, warning against claiming a mandate, acting too
quickly, instead establishing nonpartisan commission of labor,
management, and the public to study possible changes in labor law,
December 8, 1992; memo to Mazur from ILGWU general counsel Max Zimny in
advance of his chairing AFL-CIO panel on Labor Law Reform, outlining
critical issues requiring legislative action, need to strengthen NLRA's
remedies, expedite procedures, October 12, 1992; text of Mazur address
to AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department Panel on Labor Law, "Restoring
the Historic Balance," November 13, 1992; memo to Mazur reporting on
meetings attended at AFL-CIO forums re labor law reform, noting specific
legislative priorities, November 6, 1992; memo from Richard Trumka,
president, United Mine Workers, re his appointment to chair AFL-CIO ad
hoc Committee on Labor Law Reform and Organizing, noting strike
replacement, legislative changes in NLRA and NLRB, highest priorities,
asking for suggestions from affiliates, November 16, 1992; faxed memo
from ILGWU Legal Dept. to AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department proposing
labor law reforms, December 11; list of members of ad hoc Committee on
Organizing and Labor Law reform; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp and
legislative director Evelyn Dubrow reporting on meeting of ad hoc
committee, December 9, with agenda; Administrative Changes in the NLRB
Proposed by the National Organizing NLRB Subcommittee of the AFL-CIO,
February 24, 1992; Summary of Proposals Made by the AFL-CIO's
Subcommittee on the NLRB, December 7, 1992; text of remarks by Prof. Ray
Marshall of the University of Texas at Austin, former Secretary of
Labor, re areas that need strengthening in the National Labor Relations
Labor-Management Committeessee also Council for American Fashion (CAF) Memo to Mazur outlining steps
for the establishment of proposed Local 23-25/Greater Blouse Labor
Management Committee, July 12, 1994; Apparel Industry Magazine article
describing Needle Trades Action Project (NTAP) in Massachusetts, Garment
Industry Development Committee (GIDC) in New York, and other
labor-management committees and development authorities, April 1991;
Remarks of AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland to the Ohio Regional
Conference on Labor-Management Cooperation, September 6, 1990; "The
Union's Call for Cooperation," by Jay Mazur, re GIDC, CAF, and other
labor-management committees, reprinted from Bobbin, 1990; memo to Mazur
from exec asst James Parrott discussing purpose of meetings between area
labor-management committees (CAF, GIDC, NTAP), September 17, 1990
South Africa, Coplyn, JohnOutline and speech by Mazur welcoming visitors from South Africa,
discussing need for labor solidarity and social safety net in the years
following the first multiracial elections, January 11- 12, 1994; agenda
for meeting
South Africa, CUNY Conference on Labor Management Relations in
South Africa, October 13Letters to Mazur discussing agenda; letter to president of National Union
of Mine Workers, September 9, 1988; list of participants
South AfricaLetter to Mazur from the Lesotho-Haps Development Co. re striking
workers, August 22, 1991; funding proposal for SACTU National Open
School, with cover letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO African-American Labor
Center, March 28, 1991; ILO Washington Focus special edition, "Statement
of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson
Mandela, at the International Labor Congress: Geneva, June 8, 1990";
flyer for demonstration against apartheid, at South African Consulate in
NY, February 2, 1990; letter to Mazur from Roger Wilkins, national
coordinator of Democracy for South Africa, thanking organized labor for
help in making Nelson Mandela U.S. tour a success, with note to Mazur re
Wilkins from Gus Tyler, July 6, 1990; letters and faxed messages to
Mazur from Garment & Allied Workers' Union and other South African
trade unions, thanking ILGWU for support in successful strike by Rex
Trueform and Hextex workers, 1988-89; proposal by NY Labor Committee
Against Apartheid for visit by South African trade unionists to New York
to tour U.S. counterparts and attend conference, February 6-10, 1991;
memos to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele
Briones re union activities in South Africa, 1989; letter to Mazur from
the Committee for International Support of Trade Union Rights, with
attached petition to free Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners
in South Africa, September 11, 1989; letter from Mazur to chairman of
Chemical Bank, urging him to withdraw financial support for Minorco, a
company owned by De Beers, March 6, 1989; photocopy of June 1989 South
African Labour Bulletin; statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, on
H.R. 1580, a bill relating to proposed sanctions against South Africa
for submission to the Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and
Means, U.S. House of Representatives, June 13, 1988; statement by the
AFL-CIO Executive Council on Southern Africa, August 1988; testimony of
Byron Charlton of the African-American Labor Center on behalf of the
AFL-CIO before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. Policy
Options toward South Africa, June 23, 1988; letter to Mazur from Richard
Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers of America, noting good
progress in Shell boycott, asking assistance in furthering campaign to
pressure Royal Dutch/Shell to leave South Africa, with attached list of
boycott participants, June 24, 1988; article re trade, Third World debt,
hunger, for Food Monitor, with cover memo to Mazur and other ILGWU
officials, June 24, 1988; record of summons for disorderly conduct in
connection with demonstration at South African consulate, with cover
letter addressed to Mazur from attorneys, April 20, 1988; newspaper
clipping from the Daily Nation, Kenya, "Halt this influx of textiles,"
August 15, 1988, circulated to ILGWU executive council and senior staff;
other newspaper clippings
Labor MovementTestimony of Kirkland before the Commission of the Future of
Worker-Management Relations, November 8, 1993; survey results: synopsis
of the 1988 Gallup study of public knowledge and opinion concerning the
labor movement; newspaper clippings from Women's Wear Daily, July 12,
1989, and Albany Times-Union, August 23, 1989, re labor shortage and
decline of organized labor; collection of essays for course by
Pennsylvania State University Department of Labor Studies, "The ULA
Course in the Theories of the Labor Movement," n.d.
Labor Research AssociationFBI report, "Soviet Active Measures in the United States, 1986-1987,"
which describes the Labor Research Association as having been founded by
the Communist Party USA in 1927 and as a component of the World
Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), June 1987; survey results, "What
American Voters Think of Worker Rights: Results of a National Poll," by
the Labor Research Association, conducted November 4-7, 1991
Labor Rights CoalitionLetter from Ray Marshall, chair of newly created Labor Rights Coalition
and professor at the University of Texas at Austin and former Secretary
of Labor, inviting Mazur to serve on the coalition board, with
description of coalition goals of protecting worker rights in
international trade, January 14, 1987; affirmative rely from Mazur,
January 30, 1986 [1987?]; invitation to Mazur from Marshall to attend
coalition conference, International Workers Rights and Trade, November
1, 1988; letter to senators signed by labor and other leaders in support
of international worker rights as part of trade bill, July 28, 1986;
press release re letter with list of signatories
Labor solidarity, globalConference report, "Problems and Perspectives: International Conference
on Strategies for Global Labor Solidarity," Washington, D.C., July 7-9,
Leadership Conference on Civil RightsAnalysis of Bush administration proposal re Civil Rights Act of 1990,
described as "much worse than previous White House proposals," October
22, 1990; invitation to 1989 annual dinner, commemorating 25th
anniversary of signing of Civil Rights Act of 1964; memo to press
expressing disappointment with nomination for assistant attorney general
for civil rights, with attached press clippings, March 15, 1989; notice
of annual meeting, with list of legislative priorities, January 31,
1989; legislative alert opposing amendments to Civil Rights Restoration
Act, discussing "religious tenet" amendment eliminating protections for
women who have had an abortion, among other measures, January 21, 1988;
statement by chairman Benjamin Hooks in support of Civil Rights
Restoration Act, March 19, 1987; testimony before Senate Judiciary
Committee and other statements by Hooks opposing nomination of Robert
Bork to Supreme Court, October 1987, and related material
League for Industrial DemocracyNotice of seminar, "The Changing Economy: Its Social Impact and Policy
Implications," January 30, 1989; ballot to raise dues structure,
December 28, 1988
Lee and Family (Lee, Tom)Memo to Mazur re strike begun by Local 89-22-1 against non-union leather
glove manufacturer, Lee & Family, at 800 Sixth Ave., NY; handwritten
note by Mazur re Tom Lee, November 3, 1986
Lehman Management Company, INC.Letters to and from Mazur re refusal of subsidiary of ILGWU's investment
firm Shearson, Lehman, Hutton to bargain in good faith with newly
certified union, local 814 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant
Employees International Union (HERE); summary of contract fight at the
Radisson Plaza Hotel and Golf Course in Manhattan Beach, CA, June 1989;
list of labor clients of Shearson, Lehman, Hutton investment management
firms; letter to Mazur announcing creation of subsidiary, Lehman
Management Co., Inc., June 20, 1989; letter to Mazur from former Lehman
associate, James Manley, re new position with Cashman, Farrell and
Associates, with copy of Nation's Labor, August 16, 1990
Leslie Fay CompaniesSee also Usury, Bill 1995 Background information on the planned plant
closing by the Leslie Fay Companies submitted by the ILGWU to the
Subcommittee on Labor Management Relations, Committee on Education and
Labor, for a hearing to the held June 7, 1994, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, including chronology of events, list of union concessions
to keep company in Pennsylvania, legislative issues; Memorandum of
Understanding for the Settlement of Strike Dispute between ILGWU and
Leslie Fay, Inc., Mediator's Recommendation, July 1, 1994; urgent and
confidential faxed memoranda to Mazur from AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Department (Joe Uehlein) re strategic efforts to pressure directors of
Leslie Fay to keep plant open, June-July; urgent faxed request for
assistance from Mazur to Ron Carey, general president, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, asking truckers to respect ILGWU picket line
at three striking Leslie Fay facilities, June 28, 1994; memo to Mazur
from Theodore Bernstein re pressure by union clients of Bear Sterns re
investment bank's relationship with Kirk Kerkorian, who was fighting
unionization of Las Vegas MGM Grand property, request for consultation
with someone experienced with Leslie Fay campaign, July 6, 1994;
handwritten notes
Levin, Senator CarlLetter to Mazur from Sen. Levin, noting targeting by Republicans and
asking for help in hosting a fundraiser, with attached press clippings
and position papers, February 21; outline and drafts of remarks by Mazur
praising Sen. Levin at reception; list of attendees; lists of invitees;
letter of invitation to reception from Mazur and industry executives;
list of apparel industry contributors to election campaign, and copies
of contribution checks; letter from Levin thanking Mazur for support
Liberal Party-Guiliani-Dinkins Campaignsee also Dinkins Mayoral Campaign Press release, Statement by Raymond B.
Harding, Vice-Chairman of the Liberal Party of New York State, quoting
Mayor Dinkins, elected as a healer of racial divisions, recently
refusing to attend Ellis Island opening ceremonies, declaring,'" I don't
want any part of that! Ellis Island is for people who came over on the
ships! My people came over in chains!" November 22, 1992; Statement by
Rev. Donald Harrington, May 24, 1989, announcing candidacy for NYC mayor
as Liberal, denouncing Giuliani as conservative, May 24, 1989; opinion
piece, "Giuliani Is No John Lindsay," April 20, 1989, condemning Liberal
Party's endorsement of Giuliani as an abandonment of its historic
function; letter from Mazur to ILGWU Liberal Party members urging
signing only Harrington petitions, n.d., note to Mazur from Harding with
attached analysis of Liberal Party performance on 1986 race, November
Literacy-Schiff, ArthurProposal to Mazur for City Family, magazine aimed at low-income,
low-literacy audience
Los AngelesLetter from Mayor Richard Riordan to Dr. Edna Bonacich, University of
California, thanking her for participation in New Fashion Industry
Roundtable, with attached summary notes discussing fashion industry in
city, March 2, 1995
Los Angeles TimesNewspaper clippings of articles written by Mazur re imports, some with
cover notes to Mazur
Machinists Rally, March 4International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
update on the Eastern Airlines strike, February 16, 1990; invitation to
Mazur to attend rally on first anniversary of start of strike, February
3, 1990; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re rally, memo
to Gus Tyler soliciting speech; speech by Mazur at rally, March 4; press
release re rally, March 1, 1990; flyers in support of March 1, 1990,
rally by Greyhound workers (Amalgamated Transit Union local 1202) at
Port Authority Bus Station; flyer in support of Domsey garment workers,
March 9, 1990, rally in Brooklyn, NY; Newsday press clipping, Robert
Reno column, March 2, 1990; handwritten notes by Mazur
March on WashingtonStatement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on 30th Anniversary March on
Washington, reaffirming commitment of labor movement to greater civil
and economic rights, May 1993; flyer, media fact sheets, letter to
members of Coalition of Conscience re credentials for march, August 14,
1993; letter from Jack Sheinkman, president, ACTWU, and chairman, Labor
Committee of Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, re labor
participation in march, April 20, 1993
Marine Engineers Beneficial AssociationLetter to Mazur and related materials re secession dispute with local,
attempt to obtain AFL-CIO charter
Martin Luther King, Jr. CenterMaterials from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social
Change, Inc., the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, and
the New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission; memo to Mazur re
meeting of the Labor Committee of the Martin Luther King Commission,
financial and political problems at the commission, with list of
contributions by labor unions, September 15, 1989; Annual Report to the
President and Congress of the United States on the National Holiday in
Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 16, 1989; letter from
Mazur and ILGWU vp and legislative director Evelyn Dubrow to senators
urging reauthorization of Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission,
April 11, 1989; letter from ACTWU urging support for Rep. Conyers
(D.-MI) amendment making commission permanent, listing Senate
cosponsors, February 1, 1989
Massachusetts Democratic PartyLetter to Mazur from Sen. Edward Kennedy thanking him for support for the
state party
Media: interview, CBS, October 10Text of CBS interview, October 10, 1990; letter inviting Mazur to appear
on "America's Challenges: The Quest for Leadership in a Global Economy"
series on public television re imports, retraining the labor force, what
government can do to support business, December 14, 1989; memo from
ILGWU vp Susan Cowell advising Mazur that producer felt show was not
appropriate for Mazur, possibly next series, December 20, 1989
Media: interview, CBS, September 2Apparent background material: AFL-CIO issue papers, "The Union Advantage"
and "Homelessness: A Problem We Can Solve," with cover letter, 1988;
AFL-CIO News promoting Dukakis presidential candidacy, August 27, 1988;
text of Mazur article for Justice, "Why We Say Dukakis Yes," September
1988; Newsday David Broder article re power of labor in presidential
race, August 29, 1988; text of Mazur remarks at Labor Day parade, July
26, 1988
Media: interview, Crows, KenMemo to Mazur with talking points and partial script re merged unions of
UNITE, position on AFL-CIO election, June 14, 1995
Media: interview, Financial NewsMinimum wage fact sheet re need for minimum wage to be livable wage, for
interview with reporter Tom Linden, Financial News, n.d.
Media: interviews, Foreign PressMemo to Mazur from exec asst Carl Proper re interview with 20 foreign
journalists, arranged by U.S. Information Agency; outline of talking
points, July 26, 1994
Media: interview, Nippon TV Network, January 22Memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin noting output
per worker in U.S. and Japan grew at the same rate between 1980 and
1990; handwritten notes by Mazur noting U.S. bashing; business card from
Nippon Television Network Corporation's Hikari Tokuyama
Media: "We Do the Work" InterviewOutline of interview re ILGWU, n.d.
Media: interview, WMCA radioLetter from Mazur to Roy Fox following up on interview, noting incomplete
discussion of union, garment industry, role in overall economy, July 24,
1986; transcript of interview
Media: interview, WWOR-TV Channel 9, November 2Background notes and memos for Mazur prepared by ILGWU vp Susan Cowell
and exec asst James Parrott re NYC manufacturing and immigration, for
interview on "People Working for People" interview by Sonny Hall
(president, local 100, TWU) and Barry Feinstein (president, local 237,
IBT), handwritten notes
Media:Radio/TV interview materialCongressional Record re minimum wage, September 8, 1988; Gallup Poll
report indicating support for labor unions, 1988, with AFL-CIO
statement; AFL-CIO American Federationist article by Mazur re industrial
homework, "A Return to the Industrial Dark Ages of Sweatshops and No
Protections," August 2, 1986; testimony of Mazur before Senate Finance
Committee in support of Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987, July 30,
1987; Fiber, Fabric & Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT) fact
sheets; AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland's remarks on goal of labor
unions, delivered at Darden Graduate Business School, March 30, 1988;
M.O.R./Hart Research Trade Issue Presentation: opinion poll of 2,812
respondents in 8 states re textile bill, April 29-May 4, 1988;
statement, ILGWU Support for Family and Medical Leave Act; notes on
trade info for CNN; WCBS Radio Interview; Mazur Labor Day Parade
announcement, July 26, 1988; questions to be asked of Mazur on Velma
Hill (APRI) talk show; Mazur notes on growing income disparity, minimum
wage, labor's future; summary of right-wing news commentators on
Democratic midterm congressional losses, 1994
Media ProjectsSee also Geto & de Milly 1993-1995 See also Michael Sheehan
Associates, Inc. 1986 Memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott
re compilation of daily major news clippings, and plans to produce a
weekly news summary for Mazur and other ILG executive staff, July 21,
1986, with attached clippings; memo to Mazur from Michael Sheehan
Associates (affiliated with Ogilvy & Mather) proposing media
training, video production, lobbying, and other public relations
services, November 7, 1986; notice to Mazur from author Jan Grabowski,
Winnipeg, Canada, re book draft, Brothers & Sisters All? A
"revealing collection of short stores" re labor organizations, "without
divulging the contents...we felt it is only proper" to give "opportunity
to input," December 15, 1986; invitation to Mazur to preview of
off-Broadway musical based on the garment trade, The Rise of David
Levinksy, December 10, 1986; letter to Mazur from author Ernest
Lieberman describing favorable reactions to forthcoming book, Unfit to
Manage! How Mismanagement of Big Business and Government Endangers
America, and What Working People Can Do About It, January 10, 1987;
mailgram from Mihajlo Mihajlov, Radio Free Europe, congratulating Mazur
on receipt of Eugene V. Debs Award, June 9, 1987; film proposal and
funding solicitation to Mazur from Francis X. Gannon and Associates for
documentary re labor leader Joe Keenan, May 26, 1987; proposal to Sol
Chaikin by Organizing Media Project, Inc., for unofficial presidential
primary by AFL-CIO locals, January 7, 1987; memo to Mazur re results of
fourth national survey from Money magazine 1986, "Americans and Their
Money," indicating Americans prefer U.S.-made goods, by Doremus Porter
Novelli, July 29, 1987; minutes of meeting re Statue of Liberty
commemorative event, October 9, 1985
Mental Illness FoundationLetter to Mazur thanking him for support for annual dinner, May 11
Merck/MedcoArticles and newspaper clippings from Business Week and the New York
Times re Martin Wygod, chairman of Medco Containment Services, who sold
the mail-order drug distributor to Merck after making it profitable by
gradually increasing patient copays and requiring generics and limiting
choice of medications; chronology of pricing changes
Mexico Earthquake ReliefReport, "A Survey of Immigrant Visa Applicants Handled by the Mexico City
Consular District," April 10, 1985; record of contributions; newspaper
clipping re relief effort, AFL-CIO News, October 19, 1985
Mexico, Sweeny (AFL-CIO/UNITE), tripSee also Mexico - Maquiladoras Letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president
John Sweeney, inviting him to join him on a trip to Mexico as part of an
official delegation, December 19, 1997; Spanish-language documents,
including text of remarks by Sweeney; text in English; memo from Mazur
to Sweeney, "Mexican Labor Movement - Overview and Policy
Considerations," December 8, 1997, essentially final draft of memo to
Mazur from UNITE organizing director Jeff Hermanson, October 24, 1997;
AFL-CIO media advisory re trip, January 22, 1998; "Mexico Update and
Analysis," from Schroeder Economics, January 7, 1998; analysis paper by
Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC) criticizing NAFTA as
hurting Mexican economy; Working Plan on the Politics of International
Relations of the Authentic Labor Front (FAT); summary points re Mexico;
newspaper clipping; handwritten notes by Mazur
Mexico Trade: fastrackSee also Speeches - Fast Track 1997; see also NAFTA - Fast Track Summary
of Testimony of Jay Mazur, President, ILGWU, on Fast Track Procedures,
presented by. Dr. Herman Starobin, Research Director, May 17, 1995;
letter from Mazur to AFC-CIO president Lane Kirkland discussing reasons
for defeat of efforts to stop fast track, defection of Sen. Gephart as
key reason for failure, May 28, 1991; transcript of Associated Press
article, "Moynihan Votes against Fast Track for U.S.-Mexico Free Trade,"
with cover note from Sen. Moynihan to Mazur noting defeat but good
argument, May 14, 1991; press release from Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
criticizing fast-track, April 29, 1991; letter to all members of
Congress from International Union of Operating Engineers, April 16,
1991, opposing fast track, with cover to AFL-CIO Executive Council
members urging similar action, April 16, 1991; letter from Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland informing him of his
support for fast-track trade authority for the president, May 1, 1991;
reply from Kirkland re history of trade legislation, inadequate
protections for U.S. workers, May 2, 1991; letter from Pres. Bush to
members of Congress urging support for fast-track, May 1, 1991; press
release/position statement, "AFL-CIO Comments on the May 1
Administration Response to Congressional Concerns over the Proposed
North American Free Trade Agreement"; Bush administration statement,
"Executive Summary: Response to Issues Raised in Connection with the
Negotiation of a North American Free Trade Agreement"; press advisory by
Mobilization on Development, Trade, Labor and the Environment, "Citizen
Groups Challenge Administration Action Plan on U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade
Talks with Call to Democratize and Expand Agenda," with attached
statement, "A Call to Real Action," released May 2, 1991; Fast Track
Fact Sheet for Jay Mazur, with list of agriculture groups opposing
measure, May 6, 1991; UAW press release, "Bieber Testifies on Fast Track
Authority for Mexico Free Trade and GATT," opposing measure, April 11,
1991; AFL- CIO News press release, "Poll Shows 72 Percent Opposition to
Fast Track," May 1,1991, with statement by AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer
Thomas R. Donahue on poll results and attached summary of findings by
Garin-Hart public opinion survey; ad by UAW opposing fast track, with
cover note to Mazur from ILGWU warehouse employees division suggesting
similar ad and letter-writing campaign, May 22, 1991; letter from
AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland to union presidents urging lobbying
against fast track, April 12, 191; memos from Mazur to ILGWU directors
urging members lobby Congress, April 30, 1991; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
research director Herman Starobin outlining arguments for opposing fast
track, lobbying strategy, with attached list of international treaties
approved without fast track authority since 1960, April 29, 1991; memo
to Mazur from ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow, April 16, 1991;
list of textile manufacturers opposing fast track, May 6, 1991; list of
Capitol Hill lobbying appointments for union presidents, May 6, 1991;
newspaper clippings
Mexico Trade: fastrackLetter to ILGWU exec asst James Parrott from the U.S. General Accounting
Office requesting information on safety hazards relevant to the textile
and apparel industry, with cover memo from Mazur to ILGWU research
director Herman Starobin and others convening meeting to pull together
the information, and meeting agenda, March 19 and 22; AFL-CIO booklet
and paper, "U.S. Mexico Free Trade Negotiations Taking Points," January
1991; AFL-CIO booklet, "Exploiting Both Sides: U.S.-Mexico 'Free'
Trade," February 1991; "Relevant Provisions of U.S. Trade Law Pertaining
to the Possible Establishment of a U.S. - Mexico Free Trade Agreement";
letter to editor of Roll Call from Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin
criticizing paid advertisement against fast-track; copies of AFL-CIO
Roll Call ads opposing fast-track; press release, statement of Donald
Hughes, president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute,
opposing fast track, March 6, 1991; Statement on Proposed U.S.-Mexico
Free Trade Agreement by Evelyn Dubrow, vice president, ILGWU, before the
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs, March 14,
1991; Testimony of Thomas R. Donahue, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO, and
chairman, Labor Advisory Committee for U.S. Trade Policy and Trade
Negotiations, before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs,
U.S. Senate, March 22, 1991; Statement of Donahue before the Committee
on Finance, United States Senate, on the Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade
Negotiations, February 6, 1991; Comments of the Service Employees
International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, before the United States
International Trade Commission on the Probable Effects of a Free Trade
Agreement between the United States and Mexico, April 16, 1991;
Statement of Jeff Faux, President, Economic Policy Institute, before the
Committee on Finance, United States Senate, on the Proposed U.S.-Mexico
Free Trade Negotiations, February 20, 1991; Economic Policy Institute
report, "The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth," with cover letter to
Mazur from EPI president Jeff Faux, March 6, 1991; press release from
Economic Policy Institute, "Report Projects Loss of 550,000 U.S.
High-Wage Jobs" from free-trade pact with Mexico, with attached briefing
paper, "U.S. Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal"; EPI briefing paper:
"Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the
Administration's Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico"; direct-mail
letter from Mexican development firm Finsa Grupo Arguelles to
manufacturers inviting relocation to Mexico to cut labor costs; ad from
Wall Street Journal southwest edition of April 16, 1991, for seminar by
Collectron of Arizona, Inc., on how to start manufacturing in Mexico,
with cover note to Mazur from Communication Workers of America president
Morton Bahr
Mexico Trade: fastrackArticle by John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, "Free Trade for
Whom?" with cover letter to Labor Advisory Board, May 13, 1991; text of
editorial by HOY re Dominican Republic and Caribbean Basin, "Free Trade
Zone Companies to Leave the DR Idling Close to Five Thousand," with
attached Spanish-language newspaper clipping, August 10, 1993; ITGLWF
Executive Committee policy paper re free trade zones, October 1990;
statement of Jeff Faux, president, Economic Policy Institute, before
Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, on the Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free
Trade Negotiations, February 20, 1991; list of witnesses to appear
before Committee on Ways and Means on the President's Request for
Extending of Fast Track Trade Agreement Negotiating Authority, with
attached statement by Joseph Mullaney, vice chairman, Gillette Company
on behalf of the Emergency Committee for American Trade, April 11, 1991;
by Owen Bieber, president, UAW; by Tom Donahue, secretary-treasurer,
AFL-CIO; by Kay Whitmore, chairman, president, and CEO, Eastman Kodak
Company and chairman, Business Roundtable Working Group on U.S.-Mexico
Trade and Investment; newspaper clippings
Mexico free trade
Mexico Free Trade AgreementSee also NAFTA; see also Import Task Force; see also ILGWU Legislative
Department Memo re media strategy for NYC NAFTA campaign, October 18,
1993; script of video taping of Mazur for Donahue show, July 20, 1993;
memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re talking
points for meeting re North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with
Newsday editorial board, June 8, 1993; memo from Mazur to Newsday
editorial board with attached policy papers in advance of meeting, June
16, 1993, including "The NAFTA Illusion," presented at a congressional
briefing by the Economic Policy Institute on March 25, 1993; letter from
Mazur to editor of Newsday summarizing points made at meeting re NAFTA,
July 23, 1993; report to Mazur and Dubrow re conference on U.S.-Mexico
Free Trade, January 18, 1991; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James
Parrott re meeting with Mexican opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas,
outlining issues to discuss re trade, immigration, labor movement, with
biographical sketch, February 8, 1991; statement on United States-Mexico
Economic Relations submitted by Jay Mazur before the Subcommittee on
Trade, House Ways & Means Committee, June 25, 1990; "The Economic
Effects of a United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement on the U.S.
Apparel Industry," statement by Herman Starobin, research director,
ILGWU, before the International Trade Commission, April 12, 1991; draft
statements by AFL-CIO Executive Council: on U.S.-Mexico Free Trade
Agreement, February 1991; on U.S. Employer Interference in Mexican Law
Enforcement, February 1992; on Free and Fair Elections in Mexico,
February 1994; Remarks by Morton Bahr, President, Communication Workers
of America, Houston Forum Club, Houston, Texas, against trade agreement
with Mexico, January 23, 1991; AFL-CIO News press releases: "Mexican
Loan Terms Stick Workers with Tab," January 13, 1995, and "AFL-CIO Calls
for Return of Peso 'Windfall' to Workers," January 24, 1995; AFL-CIO
News radio script for secretary-treasurer Donahue against Mexico trade
agreement, February 6, 1991; News UAW press release: "UAW President
Blasts Big Three on U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact," February 8, 1991;
transcript of remarks by NY Governor Mario Cuomo at National Press Club
in support of Mexico free trade agreement, February 21, 1991; Harvard
Business Review article, "Mexico - Opening Ahead of Eastern Europe,"
September-October 1990; Foreign Labor Trends report for Mexico, 1991-92,
released by the U.S. Department of Labor, prepared by the American
Embassy in Mexico City; report by Council on Foreign Relations, "Debt
and the Restructuring of Mexico," October 17, 1988; letter to Mazur from
the director of the Latin American Program of the Council on Foreign
Relations inviting him to a panel discussion, "The Chiapas Rebellion and
the Future of Mexico," February 10, 1994; newspaper clippings
Mexico: MaquiladorasConfidential proposal for AFL-CIO Border Organizing Project and
Maquiladora Project, October 6, 1989, with cover memo to Mazur from Tom
Donahue, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO; confidential draft, Maquiladora
Industry Standards of Conduct; confidential potential targets for
Maquiladora campaign; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott
re AFL-CIO Maquiladora Project, January 23, 1990; letters from
corporations (AT&T, Air Products & Chemicals, Allied Signal,
Baxter, Becton Dickinson, Fisher-Price, General Electric, General
Motors, ITT, Johnson & Johnson, Parker Hannifin, Pepsico, Rockwell
International, United Technologies, Zenith) to the Benedictine Health
Resource Center describing their operations in the Maquiladora area,
1990; statement by Gregory Woodhead, Trade Task Force, AFL-CIO, before
the House Committee on Small Business on "Effects of Devaluation of the
Mexican Peso," May 20, 1993, with cover memo re wages in the
Maquiladoras; special report of IRRC News for Investors, "Criticisms of
Mexican Maquiladora Operations Will Be Reflected in Shareholder
Resolutions," October 1990; list of labor leaders and affiliations
attending Maquiladora Campaign meeting of December 14, 1990; agenda;
printed booklet, "Doing the Job: A Common Commitment of the Union
Masonry Industry," International Masonry Institute, c. 1990; statement
by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Mexico and the Maquiladora
Twin-Plant Program, February 16, 1988, with cover letter to Mazur
confirming his appointment to the AFL-CIO's Ad Hoc Twin Plant Committee,
March 10, 1988; agenda of meeting, October 19, 1988, with remarks by
Mazur re purpose of the Twin Plant Committee; letter from the president
and board of the Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers to the vice
president of General Motors Corporation, urging improvement in wages and
benefits for Packard Electric plant in the Mexican state of Chihuahua,
September 23, 1988; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re
creation on independent leftist union in the aftermath of September 1985
earthquake, video created by them, September 28, 1987; letter to Mazur
from AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue following up on issues
raised at meeting, including document outlining standards of conduct,
meeting with target corporations, September 12, 1990; memo re convening
US-Mexico Committee for Maquiladora project, July 18, 1990; Coalition
for Justice in the Maquiladoras Kick-Off Press Conference flyer, with
memo from Mazur to vp Susan Cowell requesting that she speak for him,
January 30, 1991; memo to Mazur from exec asst Parrott re highlights of
the second meeting of the organizing committee, September 12, 1990; memo
to Mazur from Parrott re replacement for himself as Mazur's
representative on the board of the Coalition for Justice in the
Maquiladoras, September 8, 1992; letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO
secretary-treasurer Tom Donahue re meeting with Mexican Confederation of
Workers, September 20, 1988; Confidential Proposal for AFL-CIO
Maquiladora Industry Project for border organizing, October 6, 1989,
with cover letter to Mazur from Donahue, January 16, 1990; summery of
AFL-CIO/CTM Bilateral Meetings of November 10 and 11, 1988, in San Diego
and Tijuana; report by Mazur as U.S. chair of the AFL-CIO/ CTM
Maquiladora Twin Plant Committee, November 11-12, 1988; brochure/agenda
by U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration for
Expo-Maquila '86, designed to help firms relocate production to Mexico,
1986; agenda for National Planning Association's 23rd meeting, "The
Evolving Crisis in Mexico and Its Implications for the United States,"
November 7-8, 1986; newspaper clippings
Mexico: MaquiladorasAFL-CIO booklet, "The Maquiladoras and Toxics: The Hidden Costs of
Production South of the Border," by Leslie Kochan, February 1989;
booklet by Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (Interfaith Center
on Corporate Responsibility, New York), "Maquiladora Standards of
Conduct"; annual report, 1990-91; press releases by coalition: "Mexican
Community Leaders Challenge Decision by United Nations to Recognize
President Salinas with International Environmental Award," June 5, 1991,
"Coalition Releases Documentary Video: Stepan Chemical: The Poisoning of
a Mexican Community," August 6, 1992; statement by AFL-CIO Executive
Council on Cinco de Mayo, May 1992; AFL-CIO press release, "Pressure
from employers results in maquila union leader arrest," February 7,
1992; text of press conference by Tom Donahue, February 12, 1991;
confidential memo to Mazur from the National Labor Committee updating
him on U.S. tour of maquiladora workers, September 21, 199
Michael Sheehan AssociatesSee also Media Projects Memo (incomplete) to Mazur from political/media
consultant critiquing Mazur's CNN interview, n.d.; letter from Michael
Sheehan proposing media training and consulting services, November 7,
1986; newspaper clippings; handwritten notes
Migrationsee also Center for Migration Studies; see also Trilateral Commission
1993 Conference report by the eighty-sixth American Assembly, Columbia
University, New York: "Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World
Migration and U.S. Policy"
Mihajlov, MihajloCorrespondence from anti-communist refugee from Yugoslavia and his
difficulties finding a permanent professional position in the United
States, apparently politically motivated; resume; letters of
recommendation from Mazur; letters from members of search committee at
George Mason University, Virginia, several others; letter from U.S.
Embassy in Yugoslavia to U.S. Information Agency in Washington, noting
Pres. Tito's speech denouncing Mihajlov, declining hiring Mihajlov's
sister, July 2, 1968; articles by Mihajlov, "Fascists in Democratic
Society," "Tito and Waldheim," etc., n.d., c. 1986; newspaper
Minimum Wage
Minimum WageSee also Speeches - Minimum Wage 1987 Note cards, fact sheets, and
display charts with statistics on minimum wage workers; draft "Statement
by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Minimum Wage," February 1987; press
release, "Out-of-Date Minimum Wage Threatens U.S. Work Ethic, Family
Stability, ILGWU President Says in House Testimony," October 14; memo re
distribution of article by Mazur in AFL-CIO Federationist, "It's Time to
Raise the Minimum Wage," March 21, 1987; draft statement by AFL-CIO
Executive Council on Minimum Wage, May 1989; report by AFL-CIO Food and
Allied Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, "Help Wanted: To Pass the
Minimum Wage Restoration Act Because All Americans Deserve a Fair Living
Wage," c. 1987; Statement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the
Administration's Views on the Minimum Wage, March 3, 1989; letter to
Mazur from Sen. Kennedy (D.-MA) thanking him for support of Minimum Wage
Restoration Act of 1987, designed to make the minimum wage a living
wage, July 26, 1988; similar letters to Mazur and Dubrow from members of
Congress in support of bill; legislative alert from ILGWU vice president
Evelyn Dubrow calling for letters to congressional district offices in
support of minimum wage bill, July 8, 1988; letter to Mazur from
Citizens for a Just Minimum Wage, thanking him for ILGWU contribution,
March 23, 1989; "Dear Colleague" letter from six members of Congress,
"Minimum Wage and Working Women," noting two-thirds of minimum wage
workers are women, March 20, 1989; newspaper clippings; ILGWU resolution
on minimum wage supporting legislation; draft language of Puerto Rico
amendment to wage bill, March 6, 1989; text of Fair Labor Standards
Amendments of 1989; speeches by Mazur; handwritten notes by Mazur
Minimum Wage Board-Testimony of Danahy, JosephTestimony of Joseph Danahy, director, ILGWU Department of Organization
& Field Services, before the General Industry Minimum Wage Board, re
need for enforcement authority for NYS Department of Labor for minimum
wage and overtime laws, so that enforcement does not depend on
inadequate federal Department of Labor, November 12, 1985
Model AgreementCorrespondence with Department of Labor re manufacturer-contractor model
agreement; statement by Mazur condemning San Francisco voluntary
agreement, January 6, 1994; memos to Mazur from ILGWU general counsel
Max Zimny and legislative director Evy Dubrow re position of Labor
Secretary Robert Reich on enforcement, jobber responsibility;
handwritten notes by Mazur
NAACPLetter from Memphis branch to national office refusing to contribute
assessment to offset national deficit until questions of accountability
are answered, September 15
NAFTABriefing papers by the Economic Policy Institute: "Setting the Standard:
International Labor and U.S. Trade Policy," by Richard Rothstein, "The
Parallel Banking System," by Jane W. D'Arista and Tom Schlesinger, and
"The Impact of Health Care's Financing on Family Budgets," by Edith
Rasell et al.; remarks by Mazur at the Governor's Leadership Conference
on the Future of the Economy Panel: Preparing People for the Future
Economy, October 19, 1994; draft for Mazur on NAFTA, from Gus Tyler;
memo to Newsday editors: A Hard Look at NAFTA, for editorial board
meeting with Mazur, June 16, 1993
NAFTALetter to Congressional Black Caucus chairman Kweisi Mfume from ILGWU vp
and legislative director Evelyn Dubrow thanking him for opposing NAFTA,
noting need for president to renegotiate Mexican agreement, June 29,
1993; letter to Mfume from AFL-CIO Department of Legislation director
Robert McGlotten thanking him for opposing NAFTA, June 24, 1993; fact
sheet, "Partial Response to USTR Assertions that 'NAFTA Creates Jobs and
Improves Our Competitiveness'"; USTR document, with assertions; memo to
Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re inadequacy of
NAFTA related retraining act, proposed by the Clinton Administration,
October 28; AFL-CIO position papers re NAFTA, March 11; statement by
Starobin to the House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee on trade,
September 15; memo to Mazur and Starobin from ILGWU legislative director
Evelyn Dubrow, forwarding memo from Rep. Marcy Kaptur's office with
Congressional Research Service analysis of number of women in
manufacturing jobs to be affected by NAFTA, July 22; Mazur talking
points for Newsday interview re NAFTA, June 8; letters to U.S. Trade
Representative Mickey Kantor from UAW president Owen Bieber and AFL-CIO
secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue expressing concern over
administration's failure to protect labor standards under NAFTA, June 15
and 17; confidential memo from Economic Policy Institute, with attached
memo sent to top political aides of the Clinton Administration warning
of political hazards of following Bush NAFTA policy, May 10; EPI Journal
newsletter, August; AFL-CIO fact sheet: "Lies, Damn Lies, and
Statistics: The Economics of NAFTA," September 13; AFL-CIO analyses of
the NAFTA Side Accord on Labor, August 23 and 26; "NAFTA and New York:
Not Made for Each Other," by Jay Mazur; Clinton Administration Statement
on the North American Free Trade Agreement, "The NAFTA: Expanding U.S.
Exports, Jobs and Growth," with cover letter from USTR Mickey Kantor;
letter from UAW president Owen Bieber to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert
Reich rebuking him for stereotyping and attacking organized labor,
September 6; press release from Rep. Dick Gephart with text of speech
outlining why he would vote against NAFTA, delivered to the National
Press Club, September 21; confidential memo to Mazur from Alan Howard re
NAFTA strategy, projects for staying on offensive, September 22; memo
from Dubrow to ILGWU NAFTA Task Force, outlining talking points from an
AFL-CIO briefing and related AFL materials, Q&A list for lobbying
members of Congress, Democratic National Committee resolution (adopted
March 23, 1991) opposing NAFTA, September 21; fact sheets from Canadian
Environmental Law Association on impact of NAFTA on the environment, the
democratic process, and workplace health and safety, September 17;
testimony by Dubrow before Rep. John Spratt's subcommittee hearing on
Customs operations and transshipments, October 8; preliminary and
recorded roll call vote of Congress on NAFTA, n.d.; letter from
President Clinton to Rep. Spratt, discussing congressman's concerns re
NAFTA's impact on textiles and apparel regulations, November 16; ILGWU
statement on international labor solidarity; newspaper clippings
NAFTA, advertisementList of sponsoring labor organizations; copies of checks from
contributing unions, related correspondence
NAFTASee also Atlantic Council Memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane
Kirkland discussing labor's response to the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), urging activation of Fair Trade Campaign to keep
issue on national election agenda, massive lawsuit against companies
operating in Mexico for environmental and labor rights violations, other
initiatives, August 20, 1992; statement by ILGWU research director
Herman Starobin re economic effects of NAFTA on U.S. apparel industry,
National Association of Women's and Children's Apparel
SalesmenLegal brief before the Federal Trade Commission to modify its 1971 final
order restricting certain NAWCAS practices, with cover note to Mazur,
December 4, 1984
National Coalition for Haitian RefugeesSee also National Immigration Forum 1994 Report by the National Coalition
for Haitian Refugees, "The Misguided Use of In-Country Refugee
Processing in Haiti," September 2, 1993; ILGWU press release, "Statement
by Jay Mazur: Status of Haitian Refugees," December 20, 1991; "Democracy
through Terror" statement of Michael S. Hooper, executive director of
the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees before the Subcommittee on
Western Hemisphere Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of
Representatives, March 8,1988; Haiti 1997 Election Watch "Democracy
through Terror" chronology of Recent Events in Haiti and the U.S.
Response, January 1988; letter of transmission of comments on proposed
interim regulations re adjustment of status of certain Cuban and Haitian
Nationals under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,
submitted to INS by the coalition on behalf of a long list of advocacy
groups, May 1, 1987; fact sheet and training module re rights under the
new immigration law, May 1, 1987; memo from coalition executive director
Hooper re urgent executive committee meeting on victory on Haitian
adjustment provisions, with attached analysis and summary of
Simpson-Rodino Bill (Immigration Reform and Control Act of (1986);
November 19, 1986; newsletters in French/Creole, Haiti Observateur,
1988; book: Haiti: Duvalierism since Duvalier, by the National Coalition
for Haitian Refugees, Americas Watch, October 1986; press release from
coalition urging U.S. to break with military junta in Haiti and promote
real democratization, not just pro forma elections, n.d.; press release
noting persistence of corruption and cronyism in Haitian government
despite ouster of Jean Claude Duvalier, October 9, 1986;
obituary/memorial booklet for Hooper, October 2, 1988; newspaper
National Coalition for Haitian RefugeesLetter to Mazur from the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees asking
for support for Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act of 1985, with model letter
to members of Congress, February 19, 19985; amicus curiae brief of the
National Coalition for Haitian Refugees et al. before the U.S. Supreme
Court in re Marie Lucie Jean et al. vs. Alan C. Nelson et al., October
1984; immigration emergency legislation hearing before the Subcommittee
on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary,
U.S. Senate, October 28, 1983; statement by Michael Hooper, executive
director, on the Immigration Emergency Powers and Procedures Act of
1983, before the subcommittee; report by national coalition, Americas
Watch, and Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights to the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, "Haiti: Rights Denied," March
1985; letters to members of Congress from the national coalition; ACLU
National Immigration and Alien Rights Project Report No. 1, Executive
Summary, "Salvadorans in the U.S: The Case for Extended Voluntary
Departure"; statement by John McCarthy, executive director of the Office
of Migration and Refugee Services, United States Catholic Conference re
Salvadorans, November 17, 1983; coalition meeting agendas February 3,
1984, and December 6, 1986; records of contributions from ILGWU;
proposed budgets
National Committee for Labor Israel
National Committee for Labor IsraelMinutes of National Executive Committee meeting, January 31, 1992,
recommending Jerry Goodman as a successor to outgoing NCLI executive
vice president Yehuda Ebstein; minutes of December 9, 1992, meeting;
memo from Goodman outlining financial terms of employment, February 19,
1992; letter to Mazur from Stanley Lowell (Fink Weinberger attorneys)
praising selection of Goodman, March 31, 1992; correspondence re
contributions to Israel hospital and health centers, April 1992; letter
to Mazur from Sidney Orenstein (Solomon & Rosenbaum, Drechsler &
Leff) noting that Ebstein was demanding interest on his deferred
severance pay, with reply from Mazur opposing, related correspondence,
February 17, 1992; financial projections for current quarter, February
21; memo from Ebstein, "Recommendations for the Future of NCLI,"
February 26
National Committee for Labor Israelsee also Histadrut; see also Klein, Adam (Klein & Co.) Annual
statement for the year ended December 31, 1990, listing trustees of
National Committee for Labor Israel - Israel Histradrut Campaign; agenda
of National Executive Committee meeting of May 31, 1991, with related
documents brought by Mazur and report from executive vice president
Yehuda Ebstein; projection of NCLI obligations to personnel and others
at hypothetical dissolution date of March 31, 1991; "extremely
confidential" memo to Mazur from Adam Klein, president of Klein &
Co., Cambridge, MA, criticizing NCLI executive vice president Yehuda
Ebstein's financial management and accounting, noting that the cost of
running NCLI in 1990 was more than had been raised, and that no money
had been sent to Israel so far in 1991 because all of it had been used
for administrative expenses, almost none going to trade union education,
inflated expensing of sale of building, May 30, 1991; related
confidential memos to Mazur from Klein, re efforts to reorganize NCLI,
meeting with Ebstein, with proposed plans, May-June, 1991; profile of
financial resources, prepared by Klein & Co., May 1991; memo from
attorneys Solomon & Rosenbaum, Drechsler & Leff re NCLI
financial obligations to staff, July 8; confidential memo to Mazur and
Ebstein from attorney Sidney Orenstein (Solomon & Rosenbaum,
Drechsler & Leff) commenting on preliminary draft legal opinion by
Jay R. Butterman re ownership of building at 33 E. 67th St., NY,
relationship between NCLI and Histadrut, July 25; proposal from Ebstein
for closing NCLI and replacing it with a new, smaller organization to
maintain appearance of continuity and complete sale of building, August
5; letter to Ebstein from Baruch Tenenbaum, agent for rebuffed potential
buyer, Luis Perelmutter, outlining events, April 25; letter from
potential buyer rejecting purchase of Howell, NJ, property, with cover
memo from Ebstein to Mazur, August 27; letter re zoning questions from
potential buyer of 33 E. 67th St. property, September 4; biographical
sketch of Alec Aylat, c.1991; accountant's statement to NCLI Board of
Directors by Joel Popkin & Company, noting that donated property
should be assigned fair market value, November 17, 1989, with financial
statement as of September 30, 1989; list of funds raised by regional
offices, 1984-90; list of contractual obligations to Eliezer Rafaeli,
1989-90; "strictly confidential" memo to Mazur from Yehuda Ebstein,
"Reports on Tenure of Eliezer Rafaeli," noting financial gamesmanship re
salary, chronology of cost-sharing agreement with Histadrut, August 7,
1991; memo from Ebstein to Mazur and NCLI Executive Committee, "The
Future of NCLI," arguing against the organization having primarily a
fund- raising role, need for professional staff, September 16;
correspondence from Detroit Histadrut chair Alexander Blumenberg re
closure of office, October 25, related letter to Mazur from Ebstein and
draft of reply, October 30-31; letter of resignation from Ebstein,
October 22; draft of press release re Ebstein resignation, called
retirement, October 30; memo from Ebstein to Jacob Lidar, director of
the campaign department, refuting claim of $5.8 million owed to
Histadrut Assistance Fund, November 15, with cover memo to Mazur; memo
to Mazur from Ebstein re his employment contract, citing differences in
pension provisions, December 6; financial statements for Executive
Committee meeting, December 6; memo to Mazur from Ebstein re long
distance telephone charges by Histadrut representative, December 10;
handwritten notes by Mazur re questionable transactions, diversion of
funds, Ebstein's severance
National Committee for Labor Israel, Klein memosConfidential memos to Mazur from management consultant Adam Klein,
president of Klein & Co., re reorganization of NCLI, difficulties
with executive vice president Yehuda Ebstein; handwritten notes by
Mazur; memo from Ebstein to Mazur introducing Klein
National Committee for Labor Israel, Mazur's notesDraft of letter of resignation by Mazur as president of NCLI, noting
decisions made without his knowledge; personal and confidential memo to
Mazur from Yehuda Ebstein re relationship of president to executive vice
president and organization, noting disagreements re duties and
responsibilities, February 27, 1991; handwritten notes by Mazur
answering points in memo; other memos and notes documenting problems re
working relationship with Ebstein, lack of communication
National Committee for Labor IsraelDraft of press release announcing appointment of Mazur as president of
National Committee for Labor Israel, December 3, 1990; letters to Mazur
congratulating him on being named president of the National Committee
for Labor Israel, with replies from Mazur, November 1990 - February
1991; correspondence between Mazur and predecessor, Bruce Vladeck,
president United Hospital Fund, expressing dismay at response to inquiry
re payment of salary of Histadrut representative, related correspondence
and meeting minutes, January 7-17, 1991; draft statement by AFL-CIO
Executive Council supporting Histradrut, praising Israel for restraint
in the face of unprovoked attack by Iraq's Saddam Hussein, February
1991; statement by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations supporting U.S. policy in Persian Gulf, January 9, 1991;
correspondence re fundraising during Gulf War, especially for Israel
health services network Kupat Holim; list of contributions received for
Kupit Holim Emergency Fund as of May 28, 1991; description of NCLI
Rogoff Fund for Medical Research for the benefit of Israel hospital, and
financial statement as of September 30, 1990; Executive Committee
minutes, July 25, 1990; memo from Mazur to NCLI executive vice president
Yehuda Ebstein re pension fund, seeking clarification re his status as a
trustee, May 6, 1991, with related correspondence; draft of letter to
board members, composed by Gus Tyler for Mazur, discussing efforts to
restore financial viability, sale of building, need for special board
meeting, c. 1991; memo from outgoing Histadrut representative to North
America re counterproductive parallel fundraising, damage to image, need
for reorganization, c 1990; confidential outline of fundraising and
reorganization plan to recover from period of mismanagement, c. 1991;
financial statements for year ended September 30, 1989, 1990, and 1991;
cost reduction schedule, including closing Cleveland, Los Angeles, and
Detroit regional offices, July 1 - September 30, 1991; letter to
directors of United Steelworkers of America, District 28, replying to
concerns over closure of Cleveland office, August 8, 1991;
correspondence re retirement plan and employment fund, May 6, 1991;
correspondence with attorneys Kaye, Fialkow, Richmond & Rothstein re
New England fundraising, April - December 1991; program highlights of
Jewish Labor Committee, "JLC Support for Issues of Concern to the Trade
Union Movement," March 1991; newsletter Labor in Israel, August 1990;
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin and Daily News Reporter,
January 4 and 9, 1991; Israel Line news dispatches from the Consulate
General of Israel in New York, March 25 - 27, 1991
National Committee for Labor Israel--Sale of BuildingEdited and final copies of contract of purchase and sale (of building at
33 East 67th St., New York, NY) by and between National Committee for
Labor Israel - Israel Histradrut Campaign, Inc., and Agnews's Inc.,
April, May, and June 6, 1991; history of property up to 1968, May 2,
1991; letter from buyer asking to renegotiate price due to zoning
problem, related correspondence, February 14, 1991; memo re zoning
issues relating to transfer from nonprofit to for-profit use, November
28, 1990; property appraisal as of July 30, 1990; letter to Mazur re
holdup with SEIU in signing contract for sale of building, request that
Mazur use his influence with AFL-CIO's John Sweeney to resolve the
problem, with attached chronology, May 7, 1991, and related
correspondence; agreement with contractor SBJ Management for remodeling
work, May 4, 1992
National Committee for Labor IsraelFact sheet on Histradut; by-laws of the National Committee for Labor
Israel - Israel Histadrut Campaign, Inc., a corporation organized under
the not-for-profit corporation law of the State of New York, 1984;
letters between Mazur and Uri Agami on Agami's accomplishments as
chairman of the Amal Schools and election as Histadrut secretary for the
Haifa area, September 25, 1987, and January 1990; solicitation from
National Committee for Labor Israel-Histadrut, Nov. 18, 1988; position
paper re Arab-Israeli relations, June 16, 1988; Financial Report,
Special Activities and Development Transmissions to Histadrut Assistance
Fund, Major Receipts and Disbursements, 18 Months October 1, 1986 -
March 31, 1988; correspondence re possible Histadrut activity in Puerto
Rico, 1986-87; correspondence re Mazur's appearance at Philadelphia
Trade Union Council luncheon to solidify support for Histadrut, Sept.
23, 1987; letter from Mazur re trip to Israel to dedicate vocational
school named for the ILGWU, June 23, 1987; Labor in Israel Histadrut
newsletters, March 1986 and June 1988; brochure and other materials
describing programs for youth and elderly under Mishan, an arm of
Histadrut; cover letter to Mazur from Bruce Vladeck, president of United
Hospital Fund (New York), noting meeting with National Committee for
Labor Israel - Histadrut, desire for cooperative efforts, November 12,
1987; list of contributions by ILGWU locals for 1987 Histadrut
conference; agenda of Board of Directors meeting, National Committee for
Labor Israel - Histadrut, with special resolution calling for an end to
the Israel Histadrut Foundation's independent status, April 15, 1986,
and resolution on several other issues; letter from the Israeli embassy
to Histadrut, urging resolution of competing dual organizations, warning
of harm to common cause (translated from Hebrew), April 2, 1986; Report
of the Board of Directors and the Council of the National Committee for
Labor Israel - Histadrut, with list of major projects, April 3, 1986
National Congress for Puerto Rican RightsConvention publications, "Equality for Puerto Ricans: A Determined
Movement," Third National Puerto Rican Convention, Philadelphia, May
31-June 2, 1985; "Closing Ranks; Forward to Justice," Fourth National
Puerto Rican Convention, Hartford, CT, May 29, 31, 1987; letter of
invitation to Mazur to speak at Hartford convention, February 25, 1987;
memo from ILGWU director of organization Joe Danahy re non-union status
of Holiday Inn convention hotel, February 24, 1987
National Council of Senior CitizensConference agenda, "U.S. Competitiveness and the Aging American
Workforce," June 16, 1993, sponsored by the National Council on the
Aging, Inc., and the National Planning Association, with cover
invitation to Mazur, May 3, 1993; convention call by National Council of
Senior Citizens for Florida conference, with cover letter to Mazur,
December 21, 1987; notice of general board meeting of October 20-21,
1987; letter to Mazur offering one-year membership to retired union
members, September 21, 1988; text of Mazur remarks for William R. Hutton
Testimonial Dinner, March 10, 1988; Statement by Bill Dodds, National
Council of Senior Citizens, before the House Education and Labor
Subcommittee, Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, supporting
Visclosky Amendment re representation on pension plan boards, February
21, 1990; memo to Mazur from the New York State Council of Senior
Citizens re establishment of a union advisory committee to the state
council, December 26, 1990; memos to Mazur re reaffiliation of ILGWU
retiree membership with NCSC, noting nationwide membership is down to
50, September 1990; draft of 1991 annual appeal letter, noting assault
on senior benefits, attempts to pit other advocacy groups against
National Democratic Institute for International
AffairsLetter to Mazur from Walter Mondale requesting that he participate as
auction sponsor in fundraising event for nonpartisan, nonprofit
organization est. 1983 to help strengthen democratic institutions in
newly emerging democracies, April 7, 1989
National Immigration ForumMemo to members re Clinton's announced intention to stop forced
repatriation of Haitians
National Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship ForumMeeting agendas and related materials re federal legislation,
particularly the Simpson-Mazzoli bill
National Labor Relations BoardReport, "Suggested Administrative Changes in the NLRB Proposed by the
National Organizing NLRB Subcommittee," February 24, 1992
National Planning AssociationBoard of Trustees Membership list
National Planning Association1988 and 1990 Annual Reports; paper, "Changing Sources of U.S. Economic
Growth: 1950- 2010," October 24, 1989; urgent memo to NPA trustees re
statement on national economic issues, July 11, 1990; memo to Mazur from
ILGWU research director Herman Starobin commenting on economic issues
paper, July 12, 1990; comments by ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re
economic issues paper, July 13, 1990; printed occasional papers, 1990:
"Creating a Strong Post-Cold War Economy," by Richard Belous; and "Man
and His Environment," by Harry G. Johnson; membership directory,
Committee on New American Realities, December 1991, with descriptive
agenda for twenty-first meeting of the committee, October 4-5, 1991;
July 1991 issue of Looking Ahead: "Education, Training and Management of
the American Workforce: Will the United States Still Be Competitive in
the 21st Century?"; draft minutes of Board of Trustees meetings of May
4, 1989, and December 11, 1991; memo from Mazur re NPA study, "U.S.
Competitiveness and the Aging Workforce," September 11, 1991, suggesting
ILGWU involvement in an advisory council; letter from Mazur noting
$1,000 contribution from ILGWU, December 24, 1987; agenda for annual
meeting of Board of Trustees, with report, "The New Opportunity," re U.S.
and international economic trends, setting guidelines for core program,
October 21, 1986; minutes of meeting of October 29, 1986, with cover
letter to Mazur expressing appreciation for his agreeing to become a
trustee, November 19, 1986
National Planning Association/Committee on New American
Realities1992 Annual Report; brochure and membership directory, Committee on New
American Realities, August 1992; descriptive agenda and speaker bios for
twenty-fourth meeting of the committee, April 15-17, 1993; draft minutes
of the Board of Trustees meeting of April 9, 1992; agendas and minutes
of the Board of Trustees meetings of October 27, 1992, and May 26, 1993,
with attached committee reports; memo re proposed research effort on
minorities in the inner city and the suburbs: advances and retreats
since the 1960s, May 13, 1993; drafts of NPA policy statements, "Dealing
with the Deficit Now," and "A New Economic Initiative for the Former
Soviet Republics," March and November 1992; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
research director Herman Starobin noting premature nature of NPA drafts,
November 25, 1992; draft of editorial, "Clinton's Team," for Justice;
letter welcoming Mazur to membership on Committee on New American
Realities, January 9, 1992, with attached memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp
Gus Tyler analyzing upcoming committee topics re economic issues such as
the fallacy that tax cuts for the rich create jobs ("trickle-down"
Reaganomics), January 9, 1992; minutes of the Labor-Business Relations
Subcommittee of July 20, 1992
National Strategy Information CenterLetter to Mazur informing him of his election to the Board of Directors
of NSIC, with nomination letter from NSIC founder, June 15, 1993;
memorandum to the Board of Directors re NSIC's mission re national
security issues in the 1990s, September 24, 1993; list of members of the
Board of Directors with contact information, October 28, 1993, sent to
Mazur; annual meeting of Board of Directors detailed agenda, including
proposed amendments to certificate of incorporation and bylaws,
financial statements, September 9, 1993; correspondence related to the
retirement of president; letter to Mazur re attendance at meeting;
correspondence from members of Congress and the press praising NSIC's
latest report, "International Organized Crime: Emerging Threat To U.S.
Security," September 29, 1993; grant application to M. J. Murdock
Charitable Trust for NSIC project, "US Security in the Post-Cold War
Era," April 6, 1993; NSIC Report of a Research Seminar, "The Gray Area
Phenomenon," re need for interdisciplinary study of international
religious fundamentalist, ethnic, terrorist, and other nonstate threats
to Western democratic values and the quality of life in the U.S., July
1992, with list of participants; printed newsletter, Political Warfare:
Intelligence, Active Measures, and Terrorism Report, fall 1992
National Strategy Information Center, conference
(Greece)Letter to Mazur confirming his attendance at conference, May 6, 1991;
program agenda for "Political Warfare, Terrorism, and the Media,"
conference sponsored by the National Strategy Information Center and
others, October 3-5, 1991; background papers, all same date: "Soviet
Active Measures in Greece," by Paul Anastasi, foreign correspondent, New
York Times and Daily Telegraph; "Problems of International Terrorism,"
by Vincent Cannistraro, former special assistant to the White House;
"The 'Gray' Areas," by Xavier Raufer, counselor on terrorism, L'Express,
and professor, Institute of Criminology, University of Law, Paris; "The
KGB Today, Terrorism, and Active Measures," by Victor P. Gundarev,
former senior KGB officer and deputy KGB chief in Greece, 1983-1986;
"Soviet Active Measures in the Gorbachev Era," by Todd Leventhal, U.S.
Information Agency; "Media and Terrorism," by Athanase Papandropoulous,
assistant editor, Financial Post; "Terrorism and the Media," by Paul
Wilkinson, chairman, Dept. of International Relations, University of St.
Andrews; participant list; other papers, by the Atlantic Council of the
United States: "Perestroika Update; The USSR in Transition," (bulletin)
May 21-August 10, 1991; "The Media: Partners in the Revolution of 1989"
(occasional paper), June 1991; Ditchley Foundation report, "After the
Persian Gulf War: American Politics and Policies in the 1990s," by House
Speaker Rep. Thomas S. Foley; fax to Mazur re death of ILGWU
photographer Bert Berinsky, with attached (New York Times?) obituary,
October 3, 1991; U.S. News & World Report article, "An Imperfect
Union," September 16, 1991; New York Times clipping re breakup of Soviet
Union, 1991
National Strategy Information Center, conference(Western
perceptions of Soviet Union)Letter to Mazur confirming his attendance at conference, September 7,
1990; cover letter to Mazur with papers on the perception of the Soviet
Union in the United Kingdom (by Gerald Frost, director, Institute for
European Defence and Strategic Studies), France (by Admiral Pierre
Lacoste, former director of the French DGSE), Germany (by Dr. Lother
Ruhl, former state secretary for defense, Federal Republic of Germany),
Southern Europe (by General Luigi Calagris, military correspondent,
Corriere Della Sera) and the United States (by Dr. Uri Ra'anan,
director, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy,
Boston University); the Institute of Directors (Ditchley?) Annual
Lecture, "Europe: Why and How?" by James Goldsmith, London, June 12,
1990; Atlantic Council of the United States bulletins: "Indicators of
Change in Soviet Security Policies," July 1 - August 1, 1990, and
"Perestroika Update: The USSR in Transition," June 16 - July 15, 1990;
Washington Post article by Henry Kissinger, "The End of NATO?" July 24,
NYCSee also Koch, Mayor 1985-1990; see also NYC - Commercial Rent Control
1984-1989; see also NYC Industrial Loft Advisory Council Memo from Mayor
Ed Koch to all agency heads re city policy on undocumented aliens,
noting that for the sake of the common good, they should be encouraged
to use city services such as medical care and education, and that the
city has no obligation to report them to federal authorities, with cover
note to Mazur from ILGWU officer Muzaffar Chishti, October 15, 1985;
agenda of Refugee Employment Project Advisory Board, October 15, 1985,
with agenda for conference, November 1; New York Migration Forum meeting
agendas, June 1984, and bulletin re Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill,
refugee act, December 22, 1983; proposal by mayor's office to NYS
Science & Technology Foundation for creation of Industrial
Innovation Extension Service, with cover letter to Mazur, July 29, 1986;
memos re commercial rent control, 1984; memo from mayor's office re
city's industrial retention program, January 30, 1984; related
correspondence, including from NYC comptroller Harrison J. Goldin,
December 14, 1984; letter to Mazur from Mayor Koch appointing him to the
Industrial Loft Advisory Council, June 28, 1984; position papers by
Dinkins '85 for Manhattan Borough President campaign re jobs and
economic development, zoning and physical overdevelopment, saving
garment industry jobs, with cover letter to Mazur from ILGWU officer
Susan Cowell; letter to Mazur from City Council president Carol Bellamy
asking for support for Day Care Fund (report attached), program to
assist employers in providing child care services for employees, January
24, 1984; letter from Bellamy to ILGWU local official Edgar Romney re
city-wide after-school program, February 7, 1985; statement by City
Council president Carol Bellamy, in favor of asbestos safety
legislation, November 14, 1985; list of endorsers of asbestos
legislation; correspondence re councilman race in Queens between two
factions of the county Democratic committee, both labor-friendly, July
1985; letter to Mazur from Sal Albanese of Brooklyn, asking for
endorsement in councilman race, June 10, 1985; letter from Mazur to
members of the City Planning Commission in support of banning transient
hotels in the SoHo/Chinatown area to preserve manufacturing use of
district, January 24, 1985
NYC-42nd Street Development ProjectSee also NYC Garment Center Special District Testimony 1986-1987; see
also Abeles Schwartz Associates 1983-1984 Statement by Mazur before the
Board of Estimate at hearing on industrial retention and relocation,
opposing grants to firms that leave Manhattan, August 16, 1984; letter
from the Apparel Manufacturers Association to the NYC Office of Business
Development, objecting to the proposed Industrial Retention Program
giving grants to firms leaving Manhattan, August 13, 1984; summary of
Board of Estimate Statement; Testimony by Mazur on the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for the 42nd St. Redevelopment Project,
March 26, 1984; Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
the 42nd St. Redevelopment Project, submitted to the NYS Urban
Development Corp. by the ILGWU, May 1984; testimony by Mazur at the UDC
hearing on the 42nd St. Redevelopment Project, September 6, 1984; index
cards with talking points re economic impact of garment center; press
release, Statement by Mayor Edward I. Koch, Comptroller Harrison J.
Goldin and City Council President Carol Bellamy re Times Square
redevelopment and garment center, November 8, 1984; newspaper clippings;
handwritten notes
Board of Education, NYCLetter to principal of Norman Thomas High School for Commercial Education
thanking Mazur for contribution of $250 for a scholarship, May 23, 1991;
letter from Mazur to Robert F. (Bobby) Wagner, Jr., on his appointment
as NYC Schools Chancellor, October 3, 1989; list of industrial literacy,
skills training, and English as a Second Language programs conducted by
the ILGWU for presentation to schools chancellor Richard Green, June 17,
NYC Congressional Tour and Fashion ShowTour of New York City offered biennially to new members of Congress
featuring an ILGWU-sponsored fashion show of apparel produced in New
York City. Letters from Mazur to NYC mayor Ed Koch and other officials
inviting them to attend the show, April 13, 1987; letter to Mazur from
Rep. Charles Rangel, noting that 68 members of Congress would attend,
May 1, 1989; list of companies represented and fashion items presented;
agenda of all tour events; remarks by Mazur (?); memo to Mazur from
ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow re need to put on a less
expensive show, recommending against sponsorship by Philip Morris,
January 8, 1991
NYC Commercial Rent ControlSee also NYC Garment Center Special District; see also NYC Industrial
Loft Advisory Council; see also Speeches - NYC Commercial Rent Hearings
1989; see also Speeches - Garment Center 2001; see also Koch, Mayor
1985-1990; see also NYC 1984-1986 Memo to ILGWU exec. asst. James
Parrott outlining arguments for preserving manufacturing in NYC, April
28, 1988; memo from Mazur to ILGWU NYC managers re union's support of
Intro. 914, January 15, 1988, with attached fact sheet, flyer for
coalition event, and testimony by Mazur at City Council hearing,
December 1, 1987; summary of commercial rent arbitration bill by sponsor
councilwoman Ruth Messinger: "Statement on Discharge of Intro. #1237,"
June 13, 1989; Memorandum in Opposition to Intro. 2345 and in support of
Intro. 914-A by the Federation of Apparel Manufacturers (Eli Elias,
president), June 14, 1989; City of New York Office of the Mayor
Memorandum in Support of state legislation to amend the Public Service
Law limiting electricity surcharges imposed by landlords to commercial
tenants, May 9, 1989, with cover letter to Mazur urging lobbying
support, sample letter, list of key legislators, May 23, 1989; ILGWU
Testimony, City Council Hearings on Commercial Rent Control, December
11, 1986; memo from Parrott to Mazur re ACTWU contribution to commercial
rent campaign, need to speak to ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman for more,
lack of donations from musicians, printers unions, April 13, 1989;
letter to Mazur from Sheinkman suggesting they work together on
commercial rent problem, June 1, 1984; memo to Mazur from Susan Cowell
re commercial rent control and related legislative efforts, May 23,
1984; newspaper clippings
NYC Commission on the Status of WomenLetter from the NYC Commission on the Status of Women to ILGWU
secretary-treasurer Irwin Solomon seeking financial support for CAW
Fund, Inc., established to raise additional dollars, with description of
programs, list of corporate and foundation contributors, newspaper
clippings, February 1, 1988
NYC Economic Development Corp.See also Garment Industry Development Corporation; see also NYC - City
Council - Economic Development Committee 1993; see also Speeches -
Manufacturing Matters in NYC 1990; see also NYC - Workforce Development
Commission 1993; see also NYC - Office of Business Development; see also
Speeches - Levine, Randy - Talking Points 1997 Talking points for Mazur
for meetings with Clay Lifflander, president, NYC Economic Development
Corp., August 23 and October 8, 1994; letter to Lifflander, expressing
disappointment over several canceled meetings, noting previous working
relationship with every head of EDC since its creation, September 22,
1994; proposal for Giuliani administration, "A Public/Private
Partnership for the New York Apparel Industry," describing history of NY
labor partnerships, including the Garment Industry Development
Association (GIDC), Council for American Fashion (CAF), Fashion
Exports/New York (FE/NY), collaborations with the Fashion Institute of
Technology, and others; related correspondence; newspaper clipping
NYC Economy-NAFTA"NAFTA and New York: Not Made for Each Other," by Jay Mazur, n.d.
NYC- Fashion Center Annual ReportSee also Garment Industry Development Corporation Annual report, 1994-95,
of the Fashion Center Management Association, Inc., the manager of the
Fashion Center Business Improvement District; includes budget, security
incidents, letters from business owners, newspaper clippings
NYC- Made in NYC Fashion Industry proposalSee also NYC Economic Development Corporation 1994; see also Garment
Industry Development Corporation Proposals by Mazur for a "Made in New
York City" campaign to promote the fashion industry and for an in-house
city government "think tank" for economic development and related
(housing, education) policy; op-ed piece by Mazur urging greater
financial support by city government of apparel manufacturing sector, c.
NYC Garment Center Special DistrictSee also NYC - Commercial Rent Control; see also NYC Industrial Loft
Advisory Council; see also NYC 42nd St. Redevelopment Project 1984; see
also Abeles Schwartz Associates 1983-1984; see also Local 23-25 -
Garment Center Rally 1962-1972 Letters from Mazur to Gerald Shaw,
president of Oscar de la Renta and others, urging them to testify in
support of creating a Garment Center Special District, which would
preserve manufacturing in perpetuity within the city's traditional
garment district, March 9; Statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, on
the Garment Center Special District, Board of Estimate Hearing, March
26, 1987; garment center fact sheet; letter from Mazur to Assemblyman
Jerrold Nadler re Nadler's support for zoning to preserve manufacturing
as expressed in his letter to the Village Voice, December 9, 1986
NYC-Manufacturing "White Paper"See also Garment Industry Development Corporation; see also Council for
American Fashion Second draft and final (?) bound "A Comprehensive
Approach to New York City Apparel Manufacturing Development Policy,"
submitted by the ILGWU, March 1990, with cover memo to Mazur from exec
asst James Parrott
NYC, Mayoral Race 1993, NY1 NewsPollsee also Dinkins; see also Giuliani Weekly poll results conducted by Lou
Harris of LH Research for New York 1 News, division of Time Warner
Entertainment (sponsored by NYNEX Corporation) of residents' attitudes
on a multitude of variables in Giuliani-Dinkins race, other issues,
March-October; questions on survey form for June 15-17; handwritten
notes by Mazur
NYC, Deputy Mayor, Lynch, BillCorrespondence with Bill Lynch, deputy mayor of New York under David
Dinkins, re exploitation of workers by Williamsburg Trade Association,
February 1, 1990; visit by British Labour Party head Neil Kinnock,
November 9, 1989; meeting with Sanford Garelik, executive director,
Garment Industry Security Council, June 5, 1990; budget for Garment
Industry Development Corp. (GIDC), June 11, 1990; appointment of ILGWU
representative to New York City Loft Board, February 15, 1990;
handwritten notes by Mazur
NYC- Pinero, Sally Hernandez, Deputy MayorLetter to NYC Mayor Dinkins, copied to Deputy Mayor Pinero, re the
Business Relocation Assistance Corporation (BRAC) and the need to change
the policies of the Koch administration, which discouraged retention of
apparel manufacturing in Manhattan, September 20, with attached
statement by Mazur before the NYC Planning Commission, September 11;
letter from Mazur to Pinero suggesting meeting re economic development
policies with Wallace Ford, commissioner, Office of Business Services,
and Paul Marinaccio, executive director, Economic Policy and Marketing
Group, July 12; outline of notes in preparation for September 27 meeting
with Ford and Marinaccio; draft notes from August 16 meeting with Pinero
and David Smith, commissioner, Office of Business Development; letter to
Mayor Dinkins from Rogi Equities & Investors (dba Chop Chop Cutting
Services) threatening to move out of state unless the city provides a
tax rebate, June 17; charts showing New York City apparel employment;
memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott reporting finding by
Kurt Salmon Associates that out-of-town buyers inject at least $100
million annually into the NYC economy, September 26; outline of notes,
"NYC 1991: World's Capital in Transition"; letter from Mazur to Pinero
re city's efforts to save Mademoiselle Knitwear from bankruptcy, urging
that rights of workers be considered, March 26
NYC- Pinero, Sally Hernandez, Deputy Mayorsee also Garment Industry Development Corporation "A Comprehensive
Approach to New York City Apparel Manufacturing Development Policy,"
submitted by the ILGWU, March 1990; letter to Mazur from Deputy Mayor
Pinero agreeing with his support for relocating Marlene Sportswear to
the Brooklyn Army Terminal, April 17, 1990; letter from Mazur to Pinero
re city's favorable tax treatment of Domsey Trading Corporation, engaged
in anti-union activity, asserting that public funds should be used to
further quality, not just quantity, of jobs, June 11; memos to Mazur
from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott outlining items for discussion during
meetings with Pinero and Mayor Dinkins, June 11 and August 16; fact
sheets re importance of garment manufacturing industry for NYC; memo
from Mazur to Mayor Dinkins and Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch summarizing
points discussed at June 8 meeting re restoration of funding to Garment
Industry Development Corporation (GIDC), promoting "Made in NY" apparel,
holding a mini-summit on apparel manufacturing policy, exploring a
mixed- use development in the Bronx, and other economic development
issues, June 11; letter from Mazur to Dinkins urging continued funding
of GIDC, May 7; memo to Mazur from Parrot re GIDC budget for FY 1991; "A
Proposal to Promote New York City's Fashion Industry," submitted by the
ILGWU, August 14; copy of cover story from Women's Wear Daily, "SA to
City Hall: Give Us Respect, and a Lot More," with note from Mazur to
Pinero, asking her to call him, July 17; invitation from Mazur for
Pinero to address the Council for American Fashion (CAF), June 13;
letter from Mazur to Pinero seeking clarification re mayor's Small
Business Assistance plans, October 17
NYC- City Council, Economic Development CommitteeStatement by Mazur before the New York City Council Committee on Economic
Development endorsing city's "Strong Economy, Strong City" report,
October 18, 1993
NYC-City Council- Finance DivisionNotice of Executive Budget hearings for fiscal year 1995, with attached
schedule for agency hearings; list of officials of NYC Central Labor
Council, AFL-CIO
NYC- City Council RaceLetters to Mazur from several candidates for NY City Council, asking for
ILGWU endorsement, with campaign literature; schedule of candidate
interviews by ILGWU, August 8, 1991; spreadsheet analysis of races in
all 51 districts, showing status of seat (incumbent strength), names of
candidates, ethnic composition of neighborhoods and ethnic percentage
breakdown of registered voters, concentration of ILGWU members or
retirees, number of petition signatures obtained, amount of money
raised, some positions on issues
NYC-City Planning CommissionSee also Speeches - Manufacturing Matters in NYC 1990 Notes to Mazur from
vp Susan Cowell re hearing by City Planning Commission on Garment Center
zoning plan, January 28, 1988; letter from Mazur to chair of City
Planning Commission expressing interest in participating in planning for
the next half-century of NYC, September 13, 1988
New York City Central Labor CouncilCopy of letter (in English, Spanish, and Chinese) from Mazur sent to all
ILGWU members and retirees in NY metropolitan area in support of
striking workers at Daily News, calling for boycott, with cover letter
to New York City Central Labor Council, November 7, 1990; mailgram from
Gus Bevona, president of Local 328-32J, SEIU, to NYC Central Labor
Council president Tommy Van Arsdale urging support of striking doormen,
porters, and other building maintenance members of, April 22, 1991;
Labor Council Alert fact sheet re Campaign for Justice in Brooklyn
supporting ILGWU organizing efforts against Williamsburg Trade
Association, and letter from Mazur offering thanks, January 24, 1990;
letter to Mazur from Victor Gotbaum soliciting financial support for the
Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, Graduate School, City
University of New York (CUNY), with attached description of center and
major projects, May 31, 1990; letter re second annual Asian Labor
Festival, sponsored by the Asian Labor Committee of the NYC Central
Labor Council, July 19, 1990; letter from Van Arsdale re labor
activities supporting Dinkins mayoral campaign, July 21, 1989; flyer
publicizing march on Washington, D.C. demanding affordable housing,
October 7; memo to AFL-CIO Finance Committee from secretary-treasurer
Thomas Donahue re debt problems with United Labor Agency in Washington,
D.C., April 17, 1989; manuscript, "Rebuilding a Presidential Majority,"
by William A. Galston, University of Maryland, with cover note to Mazur
from Ted H. Jacobsen, secretary of the NYC Central Labor Council, March
31, 1989; letter to Mazur from Van Arsdale re planned discussion at
Executive Board meeting of the changing political situation re
candidates for NYC mayor, January 10, 1989; recommendations of
candidates for congressional and state office, April 23, 1990; appeal to
Mazur for financial support for toys for children of striking
machinists, December 11, 1989; letter to Mazur about providing office
space for the New York chapter of Social Democrats USA, April 17,
New York City Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO)Correspondence from Mazur to Tommy Van Arsdale, president, and other
members of the New York City Central Labor Council re Labor Day parade,
testimony in favor of commercial rent binding arbitration bill; draft of
constitution and by-laws; page proof of pamphlet, "Human Rights for
American Workers," published by the Trade Union Leadership Institute,
New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, February 25
New York City Central Labor CouncilList of officers and Executive Board; roster of affiliates and member
census; correspondence re needs assessment survey for workplace literacy
programs, August 31, November 2, 1987; strike support for Federation of
Professional Athletes, September 18, 1987; letters to members of
Congress (Scheuer, Schumer, Solarz, Molinari, Green) re trade
legislation, August 3, 1987, with reply from Molinari opposing
"protectionism," August 14, 1987; letter withholding endorsement of
Congressmen Schumer and Solarz for their refusal to override
presidential veto of trade bill, October 29, 1986; letters of
endorsement for candidates for Democratic district leaders; alert and
flyer re strike at NBC by National Association of Broadcast Employees
and Technicians; flyers for plant closing legislation; memos opposing
hospital and nursing home ownership by out-of-state corporations;
opposing use of foreign repair stations by U.S. commercial aircraft;
letter to Mazur reporting on efforts to aid the trade bill, April 16,
1987; letter to Mazur re setting up political action committees in each
borough, April 16, 1987; letter to Mazur re challenge by Victor Gotbaum
to Central Labor Council constitution and election of officers, December
1, 1986; excerpt of minutes of Executive Board meeting of September 18,
1986, re purchase of tickets for annual dinner-dance of Black Trade
Unionist Leadership Committee, opposition by Victor Gotbaum to ethnic
caucuses as part of larger council; letter re increase in per capita
dues, May 22, 1985
NYC- Industrial Loft Advisory CouncilSee also NYC - Commercial Rent Control; see also NYC Garment Center
Special District; see also Speeches - NYC Commercial Rent Hearing 1989;
see also Speeches - Manufacturing Matters in NYC 1990; see also NYC
1984-1986; see also NYC 42nd St. Redevelopment Project 1984; see also
Abeles Schwartz Associates 1983-1984 Letter to Mayor Ed Koch from James
Gill, chairman of the Industrial Loft Advisory Council, re decline of
manufacturing jobs, need to halt conversion of industrial space into
commercial uses, April 11, 1986, with cover letter to Mazur;
correspondence between Gill and commercial photographer Nancy Lowell
McFarland re letter to Koch, with attached copy of local law imposing
moratorium on rent increases on certain commercial properties, January
22, 1986, and cover letter from McFarland to Mazur, March 19, 1986; memo
to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell; minutes of eighth and ninth
meetings, September 25, 1984, and February 6, 1985
NYC- Office of Business DevelopmentSee also Council for American Fashion; see also Garment Industry
Development Corporation; see also NYC Economic Development Corporation
1994; see also NYC - Workforce Development Commission 1993; see also
Speeches - Manufacturing Matters in NYC 1990; see also NYC 42nd St.
Redevelopment Project 1984 Letter from Mazur to commissioner David A.
Smith inviting him to attend meeting of Council for American Fashion
NYC- Outsourcing
NYC--Westside Task ForceMemo to community workshop representatives re consensus of meeting about
a number of planning issues, October 31, 1986
NYC-Workforce Development CommissionSee also NYC - Economic Development Corporation 1994; see also NYC -
Office of Business Development 1990; see also Garment Industry
Development Corporation Confidential report to Mayor Dinkins from deputy
mayor Barry Sullivan, who chaired the commission, focusing on education
and training, December 28, 1998; includes list of members, including
Mazur; dissenting letter from AFSME Disrict Council 37 executive
director Stanley Hill
New York International Festival of the ArtsCorrespondence with Mazur re cultural event held in New York City,
particularly first, held in 1987; newspaper clipping
New York State (NYS)Correspondence on a wide range of issues: several updates from state
attorney general Robert Abrams re his priorities; from Coalition for
Progressive NYS Taxation, October 27, 1983; from state senator Franz
Leichter, opposing NYS taxation of Social Security benefits, January 6,
1984; from Abrams, opposing elimination of federal deductibility of
state and local taxes, with attached letter to President Reagan signed
by 21 attorneys general nationwide, August 15, 1985; from governor's
office re Westway State Park, July 20, 1984; from state Department of
Labor re impact of 1986 federal budget, including closure of two dozen
offices and massive layoffs; from Dept. of Labor re proposal to expand
bonding capacity of Job Development Authority, October 16, 1985; from
Assembly minority leader Clarence Rappleyea re drug assistance program
for low-income elderly, May 7 and August 13, 1985; from assistant
majoritiy leader Dick Gottfried re occupational safety and health bill,
September 3, 1985; Rebuild NY bond issue fact sheet, September 23, 1983;
memo to Mazur from Sal Giardina, director, NYS district ILGWU, listing
proposed craft minimums for major market negotiations, June 3, 1985
NYS Apparel Registration LawSee also Speeches - Apparel Industry Task Force, NYS Dept of Labor 1992;
see also Speeches - Sweatshops Memo from Mazur to ILGWU New York City
managers re enforcement of NYS Apparel Registration Law, requiring
manufacturers and contractors of women's or children's clothing to
register with the state, January 14, 1988; press release, "ILG Backs
Cuomo in Push for Crackdown on Sweatshops," January 6, 1988; copy of
law; copy of notice; copy for registration form; memo to Mazur from
ILGWU exe asst James Parrott re establishment of New York-New Jersey
interstate enforcement unit to coordinate enforcement of the two states'
apparel registration laws, July 8, 1988; memo to Mazur re changes made
to original garment industry registration bill, February 28, 1986; NYS
Department of Labor statistical statement, Apparel Industry Task Force,
December 19, 1988; newspaper clipping
NYS- Cuomo, Governor MarioCorrespondence from Mazur
NYS-Cuomo, Mario, reelection campaignCover letter to Mazur from Friends of Mario M. Cuomo Committee, Inc.,
with attached text of announcement of reelection for NYS governor by
Cuomo, January 11, 1994; letter from NYS Democratic Committee with
attached positon paper on the economy and fact sheet for rebuttal of
most frequently made distortions, "The Real New York," January 24
NYS Democratic CommitteeLetter to Mazur from NYS Democratic Committee chair John Marino inviting
him to be a trustee of the Democratic State Party and raise or
contribute $5,000, February 13, 1992; letter from Mazur to Gov. Michael
Dukakis as presidential candidate, offering to hold pre-election day
rally on Seventh Ave. garment district, as in past campaigns, July 15,
1988, with cover letter to NYS Democratic Committee advising getting
50,000 Dukakis buttons for the Labor Day parade; memo from Mazur to
ILGWU regional directors and NY-NJ-Pennsylvania managers re meeting to
discuss upcoming political campaign, August 12, 1988; letters from Mazur
to NYS Democratic Committee noting $1,000 contribution, copy of check,
March 3 and June 27, 1988; delegate information re Mazur, June 15, 1988;
request to Mazur from NYS Democratic chair Laurence Kirwin for names of
people aged 20-35 to help form a Task Force on Youth, aimed at
attracting new members, July 7, 1987; notice of time change in New York
Democratic Presidential Forum, December 7, 1988; letter to Mazur
inviting him to Annual State Committee Dinner, March , 1987; letter to
Mazur from state chair Kirwin thanking him for support of annual dinner
celebrating record-breaking Democratic victory in 1986, May 29, 1987
NYS Department of Economic Developmentsee also Council for American Fashion Letters from Mazur to commissioner
Vince Tese in support of funding or events for Council for American
Fashion (CAF), Garment Industry Development Corporation (GIDC), skills
training programs by Fairbrooke Enterprises
New York State Festival (Congressional)Letter from Rep. Charles Rangel to Edward Cleary, president, New York
State AFL-CIO, expressing disappointment over lack of labor involvement
in the biennial event, noting importance to New York State in dealing
with Congress, requesting co-sponsorship of luncheon with Mazur to get
labor leaders involved, June 23, 1987; letter to ILGWU legislative
director Evelyn Dubrow thanking her for support as a vice chairman of
the New York State Festival, held in Washington, D.C., July 1993
NYS-Garment Industry Advisory Committee (GIAC)State agency; NYS Department of Labor press release re establishment of
Interstate Enforcement Team to better enforce labor laws in both states'
apparel industries, with cover note to Mazur, July 22, 1988; minutes of
GIAC meeting of December 1, 1992; November 10, 1987; September 22, 1987;
January 27, 1987; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec. vp Wilbur Daniels re
Federation of Apparel Manufacturers' objection to NYS Dept. of Labor's
proposed contractor registration law asking manufacturers to identify
contractors with whom they do business, September 18, 1987; notes by
Parrott re proceedings of May 13, 1986 GIAC meeting; agendas for
September 24, 1992, and February 9, 1993, meetings; outline of
legislation to enhance anti-sweatshop enforcement in the NYS apparel
industry; committee code of conduct, signed by Mazur, February 26, 1989;
correspondence with state legislators and others
NYS-Governor's Labor RoundtableMinutes, August 14
NYS-Governor's School and Business Alliance Task
ForceSee also Consortium for Worker Education Meeting notice with attached ad
printed in Olean Times Herald, October 31, 1988; introductory remarks
submitted by Saul Rosen (for Mazur?) re ILGWU's Consortium for Worker
Education, December 12, 1988; press release announcing creation of task
force, September 9, 1986; letter to Mazur asking him to serve on new
Governor's School and Business Alliance Task Force, August 7, 1986;
agenda for October 17, 1986, meeting
NYS-Governor's Task Force on Work and FamiilyLetter to Mazur from J. R. Petty, chairman of Marine Midland Bank, re
first meeting of the Subcommittee on Personnel Policies and Employee
Benefits in the Private Sector, February 17, 1988, with attached agenda
and work plan; notes for meeting with Petty, re need for legislative
mandate for paid family leave; letter to Mazur re meeting, with attached
subcommittee guidelines
NYS Occupational Safety and Health Hazard Abatement
BoardLetter to Mazur informing him that an ILGWU proposal for a health and
safety training project has been approved for funding, November 13,
NYS-State University of New York (SUNY)Memo to presidents of community colleges re pending addition to the
Education Law indemnifying officers and employees of community colleges,
with attached Assembly bill, August 15, 1980
NYS Urban Development Corp., Meeting of Directors, February
NYS Urban Development Corp., Meeting of Directors, December
NYS Urban Development Corp., Meeting of Directors, December
NYS Urban Development Corp., Directors Meeting,January
Meeting of Directors, January 21 (privileged and
Meeting of Directors, February 18, privileged and
Meeting of Directors, December 17, privileged and
Media: New York TimesLetters to the editor from Mazur responding to articles and editorials on
trade and industrial homework, 1986-1993; draft of Op-Ed by Mazur for
NYT or Washington Post re role of unions in preventing further erosion
in real wages, retirement of AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, June 21,
1995; letter to the editor from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin
criticizing editorial against Textile and Apparel bill, July 31, 1990;
letter to Mazur from Empire State College (SUNY), complimenting him on
his article in New York Times re industrial homework, October 20, 1986;
letter to Mazur from writer at the New York Times noting his comments in
Women's Wear Daily indicating a change of opinion from a criticism of
her article a year earlier, asking to discuss in person (all articles
attached), August 25, 1992; newspaper clippings on immigration,
NY Urban CoalitionAgenda and minutes of Board of Directors meetings, budgets, finance
committee reports, reports of major program areas 1989-91; New York City
Public Schools budget fact sheet, December 10, 1991, and related
materials; printed report on Local School Development Project, n.d.;
letter to Mazur re urgent need for working capital of $2 million,
January 9, 1989; copy of ILGWU contribution check for $500 to coalition,
with cover letter from Mazur, September 12, 1989; "3-Year Strategic
Plan," June 1987; memo re resignation of president Arthur Barnes, May
25, 1993; list of committee members and meeting dates, January 7
NY Urban LeagueDraft of letter to Greater New York Fund/United Way outlining financial
reorganization plan of New York Urban League, December 14, 1987
NicaraguaDraft 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
Nicaragua- report on pre-election visitLetter to Mazur from Tom Kahn, director of international affairs,
AFL-CIO, re upcoming trip to Nicaragua, December 18, 1989; confidential
memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell expressing concerns over
political motivation of AIFLD (AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor
Development) trip, ostensibly sponsored as a labor solidarity trip but
actually designed to discredit elections and promote right-wing agenda,
March 10, 1990; memo to Mazur from ILGWU Local 99 education director
Sonia Laracuente, expressing similar concerns as Cowell re politicized
AIFLD trip, April 12, 1990; official report by Laracuente re trip, April
9, 1990; drafts (?) of memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO's Tom Kahn, noting
concerns about the trip, April 9 and 16, 1990; Report on the 1990
Nicarguan Elections, by Susan Cowell, calling elections a stunning
victory for democracy; Background Notes on Nicaragua, calling elections
a stunning victory for democracy (unsigned, undated); AIFLD Nicaragua
Source Book, 1988, newsletter, clippings, and cover letters from AIFLD
official David Jessup relating to trip and elections, April 16,
Nicaragua-inaugurationOfficial invitation to Mazur from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega
Saavedra to attend inauguration of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, April
15, 1990; memo to AIFLD official Jesse Friedman from Gordon F. Ellison
re inauguration activities, April 10, 1990; faxed itinerary, Nicaragua
Inauguration AFL-CIO Delegation, April 23, 1990
NigeriaDraft resolution by the International Textile, Garment and Leather
Workers Federation Executive Committee noting that Nigeria is in
violation of an International Labor Organization Convention, ratified by
Nigeria, respecting the right of workers to join trade unions, October
1990; letters from the National Union of Textile Garment & Tailoring
Workers of Nigeria to Mazur and other ILGWU officials inviting them to
visit their union, thanking them for hosting a visit to the U.S., July
and October 1986; letter from Adams Oshiomhole, general secretary of the
National Union of Textile Garment & Tailoring Workers of Nigeria,
asking the ILGWU for reimbursement of airfare for upcoming visit and
requesting airfare for another official, April 4, 1986; reply from
ILGWU's Briones, denying request for additional fare, April 14, 1986;
related correspondence
Nygard InternationalMailgram to ILGWU president Sol Chaikin from P. J. Nygard, chairman of
Nygard International, Marina Del Rey, CA, asking for confirmation about
the official status of Gerald Roy, new ILGWU Canadian director, May 15,
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)Posters and flyers for Workers Memorial Day, with cover letter to Mazur
from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, February 3, 1992; official
comments of the ILGWU on the Proposal to Initiate Rulemaking on
Ergonomic Safety and Health Management, with cover letter from Mazur to
the Department of Labor Occupational Health and Safety Administration,
January 28, 1993; Labor Department press releases: "OSHA Invites
Applications for $1.2 Million in Targeted Training Grants," June 29,
1993, and "OSHA Saipan Garment Factory Inspections Bring $559,900 in
Penalties," March 26, 1992; Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO,
Program Report: Health Safety and Environment, August 8, 1993; letter
sent to the Executive Committee of the Council on American Fashion
(CAF), February 25, 1992, urging support for the Comprehensive
Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act (H.R. 3160, S. 1622), the
first significant change in the law since its passage in 1970; ILGWU
press release, "Mazur Urges Passage of OSHA Reform," February 15, 1994;
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) press release,
December 2, 1988, and comment to Secretary of Labor re revised OSHA
standard for formaldehyde, October 31, 1988; memo to Mazur re
multi-union lawsuit challenging the revision to the formaldehyde
standard, June 21, 1989; letters to Mazur from Department of Labor OSHA
re violations at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA, facilities, 1989-90;
letter to Howard Samuel, president, Industrial Union Department,
AFL-CIO, from Robert E. Wages, president, Oil, Chemical & Atomic
Workers (OCAW) re toxic tort compensation, January 15, 1992; article in
Democratic Left, "Reinventing OSHA: Reform Requires New, Not Less,
Government Insight," by George J. Kourpias, September/October 1993; memo
to Mazur re meeting of the Board of Directors of the Occupational Heath
Foundation, November 21, 1990
Occupational HealthMailgram to Mazur re meeting of the Occupational Health Forum/IUD
(Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO), December 27, 1988, with attached
list of members from labor and industry; letter to Mazur re meeting of
Mount Sinai Hospital's Irving J. Selikoff Occupational Health Clinic
Advisory Board, April 19, 1989, with attached minutes of March 1
Occupational Health-Human Resources Subcommittee, House
Committee-Mazur testimonyStatement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, before the Human Resources and
Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the House Committee on
Governmental Operations, re occupational health and safety hazards in
the garment industry, need for more funding of NIOSH, April 17, 1989
Part-time employmentPaper by Anne Nelson, Cornell ILR, presented April 10, "Implications of
the Growth of the Temporary Help Workforce," with cover letter re recent
Supreme Court ruling re sexual harassment, and testimony by NYC Women
Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor RelationsLetter from director Martin J. Morand to Mazur inviting him to conference
on workplace participation, with attached article by Norman Eiger
quoting Gus Tyler, "Organizing for Quality of Working Life," in Labor
Studies Journal fall 1989 and (unpublished?) paper by Kim Fellner, "In
Search of the Movement: 1960s Activists in Labor"; paper by Morand
presented at 1990 annual conference, Canadian Industrial Relations
Association, "Convergence Yes: But at Whose Expense?" sent to Mazur by
Morand, July 11, 1990
Penn South Cooperative HousingNonprofit cooperative housing in NYC built by ILGWU with partial city,
state, and federal funding for moderate income residents, originally
primarily for garment workers; statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU,
in Support of Application by Penn South for 25 Years Phase-in of Local
Real Estate Taxes, before the NYC Board of Estimate, June 30, 1987, with
note "revised by Walter Mankoff 6/25/87," with earlier copy, 6/24;
letter to Mazur from Mutual Redevelopment Houses, Inc., re decision to
increase the mortgage to make capital improvements, March 24, 1987;
minutes of co-op Board of Directors meeting, February 17 and March 17,
1987, with cover letters to Mazur; article from New York magazine,
October 27, 1986; copy of Penn South News, March 1987, with photos of
Mazur, mayor Ed Koch, borough president David Dinkins; notes for speech
or interview with New York Times at dedication ceremonies of housing,
"Community-Minded Unionism - New York Times May 19, 1962"; memo noting
that Penn South now generating 100 percent of its electricity, August
27, 1986
Political correspondenceLetters from candidates thanking Mazur for campaign contributions: Bob
Mendez, for re-election to Congress, September 13, 1995; NYS Friends of
Peter Vallone, May 2, 1994; Peter Vallone, November 3, 1995; from
elected officials re substantive policy issues: House Majority Leader
Dick Gephart, with attached speech, "The Democratic Challenge in the
104th Congress," re Democratic electoral losses over economic issues,
December 13, 1994; 1994 NYS election analysis by Richard Winsten of
Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, noting shift in power to suburbs and
upstate, strategies in a post-Cuomo environment, November 17, 1994;
correspondence from the Center for Public Integrity, reporting on
activities, July - November 1994; executive summary of focus group
findings by Hart Research Associates re union members' political
attitudes, noting tenuous allegiance to Democrats, cynicism for all
party politics, September 19, 1995; letter from Mazur to Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver re threats by Pataki administration to rescind
funds for apparel industry development projects (GIDC and CAF), March
15, 1995
Political correspondenceExplanations from Sens. John Chafee (Rhode Island) and John Kerry (Mass.)
re override vote on Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, July 10,
1986; letter from Sen. Robert Byrd noting support of override of veto of
trade act; solicitation of financial support for the Bobby Hill for
Lieutenant Governor, Georgia, campaign, July 3; letter from Peter
Nadash, director of ILGWU Upper South Dept., recommending contribution
to candidates for Maryland Attorney General (Steve Sachs) and Lt.
Governor (Parren Mitchell) in Democratic primary, July 2; letter from
Paul Winslow, regional director, ILGWU Central States Region, requesting
donation for reelection of Bill Clinton as Governor of Arkansas, June
16; letter to Mazur from Mark Green, asking for endorsement for
candidacy for U.S. Senate, noting other labor endorsements, with
attached letter from AFSCME and CWA discussing why they endorsed him,
June 12; letter from John Dyson campaign, with attachments endorsing him
for U.S. Senate, July 10; letter from Rep. Ed Towns (D.-NY), asking for
support for Mike Espy in Democratic primary in Mississippi, May 9;
letter to Mazur from NYS Attorney General Robert Abrams re establishment
of a state Ethics Commission, proposal to Democratic state chair to
adopt rules against high-ranking party official from doing business with
the state, May 16; letter from Abrams seeking reelection support,
invitation to kick-off rally, May 23; analyses of ethnic/socioeconomic
composition of districts; Kiplinger Washington letter, October 24; many
other requests for contributions from political campaigns, thanks for
Ratner, Bruce C. (Forest City Ratner Companies, NY)Letter to Mazur thanking him for assistance with gala, asking if any
follow-up is needed by Ratner, the DNC (Democratic National Committee),
or the White House, May 14, 1993
Regional Plan AssociationLetter of resignation from Mazur as director of Regional Plan
Association, citing heavy time demands in position as president of
ILGWU, April 21, 1988; letter from Regional Plan Association, accepting
resignation, May 25, 1988; list of nominations to the board, February
23, 1988; minutes of Executive Committee and Board of Directors
meetings, 1986; press release from association urging "yes" vote on
Environmental Quality Bond Act, October 28, 1986; letter to NYS
legislators urging more support for mass transit, asking Mazur to sign,
November 10, 1986; draft report re access options to Newark Airport,
November 10, 1986
Reich, Robert (Secretary of Labor)Letter to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich re relationship between DOL and
INS in enforcement of labor protections for undocumented workers in
sweatshops, September 7, 1995; concern over workers in Saipan, January
16, 1996; statement by Mazur on model agreement between San Francisco
manufacturers and contractors, objecting to wages and hours provisions,
with cover letter to Reich, January 6, 1994; other correspondence
Rehabilitation InternationalNewsletters, January 25, 1988; letter to Susan Cowell from the Central
Labor Rehabilitation Council on New York, Inc., informing her of her
election to the Board of Directors, July 14, 1988
RepublicansWashington Post press clipping: letter from Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to
Reagan budget director David Stockman criticizing slow approach to
dismantling liberal society, and opinion piece from Delaware Gov. Pete
du Pont IV saying that the landslide presidential victory wasn't enough,
November 11, 1984
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store UnionLetter to Mazur from RWDSU president Lenore Miller thanking him for
writing to Peter Pestillo to recognize the rights of Local 1064,
September 22, 1988; letter from Mazur to Miller soliciting contribution
to the Center for Labor-Management Studies at the City University
Graduate School (CUNY), January 29, 1991; RWDSU constitiution, as
amended June 1990; notice of merger meeting with United Food and
Commercial Workers, April 9, 1993; related correspondence and
Retooling New YorkLetter inviting Mazur to conference of elected officials, bankers,
developers, journalists, industrialists, and labor leaders re future of
New York City's manufacturing sector, cosponsored by the Community
Service Society of New York and the Queens Overall Economic Development
Corporation, October 14, 1986
Rohatyn, FelixLetter from Mazur to Rohatyn inviting him to participate in cultural
project celebrating contribution of immigrant families to history of NYC
and the labor movement, April 10, 1990, with copies of same letter to
Frank Mori, president of Anne Klein, and to Vince Tese and Dr. Ruth
Roll CallLetters to Mazur soliciting advertising in Roll Call ("The Newspaper of
Capitol Hill"), with memo from ILGWU asst president Gus Tyler suggesting
waiting for most appropriate time in congressional activity, August -
September 1986; advertising rates; sample back issues
Roper Public Opinion-perception of laborMemo re results of Roper Reports attitude survey showing increased
confidence in labor leaders by American public, March 28, 1991
Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Affairs,The City College of
New York (CCNY)/CUNYLetter to Mazur inviting him to serve on the Advisory Board of the
Rosenberg/ Humphrey program, September 7, 1988, with affirmative reply,
October 18; letters re meetings; printed copies of lectures: "The Cycles
of American Politics," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., December 4, 1985;
"How to Get the Poor Off Our Mind - Formulae Ancient, Modern, and Now,"
by John Kenneth Galbraith, April 21, 1986; "Fiscal Policy, Public
Morality and the Failure of Leadership," by William H. Grey III, April
27, 1987; and "Race, Affirmative Action and the Constitution," by
Herbert Hill, April 27, 1988; brochure describing the program
Reid, Rose MarieDivision of Jonathan Logan. Notes re meeting; activity report on firm
Save Our Security (SOS) Coalition (Social Security)Correspondence between Mazur and the Coalition to Protect Social Security
re contribution; fundraising letter from Mazur to unionists, June
Share Our Strength (SOS)Letters to Mazur re contributions to events sponsored by network of
restaurants raising money for local food banks, homeless shelters, and
other relief agencies; newspaper article by SOS director Bill Shore in
Nation's Restaurant News, August 4, 1986, "What the Industry Can Do To
Battle Hunger in America"; other newspaper clipping
Salvation Army/Domsey Trading Corp.Memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones
re worldwide campaign against Domsey Trading Corp., Brooklyn, NY, for
its abuse of workers, July 22, 1990; letters from Mazur and from Rev.
Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition, to Salvation Army official
noting profits made by Domsey from buying clothing contributions from
Salvation Army and reselling them in African and other Third World
nations, describing abuse of workers, asking for meeting, July 19 and
23, 1990; letter from Domsey Fiber Corporation/Domsey International
Sales Corporation president to National Rainbow Coalition expressing
offense at Rev. Jackson's public remarks, July 17, 1990; letter to Mazur
from the regional representative of the AFL-CIO African-American Labor
Center noting difficulty in tracing clothing shipments in Kenya despite
decree banning import of used clothing, July 26, 1990; newspaper
clippings; handwritten notes by Mazur
Sanchez, Oscar
School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia
University)Letter from the dean to AFSCME District Council 37 special advisor Victor
Gotbaum, newly appointed as Samuel Gompers Professor of Labor-Management
Relations at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School,
offering to participate in activities together with New York University,
September 3, 1987, with cover letter from Gotbaum to Mazur, noting
positive development, September 19, 1987
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local
32B-32JPress release re appointment of top NAACP executive, Joe Madison,
political director for SEIU, May 13, 1986; routine correspondence
Serrano, Assemblyman Jose E.Letter from Mazur to NYS Assemblyman Jose Serrano inviting him to address
the graduation ceremony of English as a Second Language and other
worker-students from citywide union program established in part through
workplace literacy legislation sponsored by Serrano, May 19, 1988
Smoot-HawleyArticle by ILGWU asst president Gus Tyler re the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of
1930, "Managing Our Trade: The Wrong Shadow of Smoot-Hawley," in the New
Leader, January 11-25, 1988, arguing that the tariff neither caused nor
exacerbated the Great Depression, with cover letter to Mazur, March 18,
Social DemocratsPosition paper, "Why America Needs a Social Democratic Movement," with
cover letter to Mazur from Social Democrats, USA, asking him to endorse
the statement, April 30, 1993; speeches presented at national
convention, 1990; speech by Mazur and program and seating list of
testimonial dinner for Mazur, given the Eugene V. Debs Award by Social
Democrats, June 10, 1987; related correspondence, including
congratulatory letters and telegrams from NY governor Cuomo and members
of Congress; issues of the Social Democrat newsletter, July 1987 and
Fall 1988; issue papers re the industrial base of the U.S. economy in
the high-tech age, union busting (with cover letters noting that they
were sent to all members of Congress, April 28 and June 15, 1987), the
1988 elections; press release "Socialist International Mission Visits
Chile October 9-12," 1986; letter from Social Democrats to Department of
Labor, urging that the new rule allowing industrial homework be
recinded, September 9, 1986; confidential report, sent to Mazur, re
Socialist International Latin America Committee meeting in Panama,
disputes with pro- Sandinista representatives, October 20, 1986; letter
from Social Democrats sent to all members of Congress urging approval of
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987
Social functions, partiesList of Christmas gift and card recipients, 1980 and 1982; Christmas and
New Year party invitations; list of regional Plan Association, Inc.,
officers and board of directors, 1985/86; list of members of New York
Skirt & Sportswear Association; list of ILGWU officers and staff for
invitations to various functions
Solidarity CommitteeSee also ALF-CIO Organizing and International Solidarity Sub-Committee
(International Organizing and Solidarity Committee) Agenda (outline of
talking points) for AFL-CIO International Organizing and Solidarity
Committee, September 23, 1994
South AfricaLetter from NYS Comptroller Edward Regan to Cleveland Robinson, New York
Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, District 65, UAW, discussing
divestment as strategy for promoting change, asserting that selling
stock in corporations doing business in South Africa relinquishes
ability to influence policy, January 15, 1987; letter to ILGWU assistant
president Gus Tyler from Patrick O'Farrell, executive director of the
AFL-CIO affiliated African-American Labor Center, discussing
coordination of union-to-union programs with counterparts in South
Africa, January 12, 1987; letter from O'Farrell to ILGWU international
affairs director Michele Briones, re upcoming seminar on organizing
techniques for black South African trade unionists, request for intern
positions, January 15, 1987, with cover memo to Mazur from Briones,
January 28; correspondence between South African trade unions and the
Southern African Labour Education Project (SALEP), with SALEP newsletter
and flyer announcing visit by founder Nimrod Sejake in New York and
handwritten cover note to Mazur asking for meeting and sponsorship,
January 30, 1987; letter to Mazur from F. L. Swartz, general secretary
of the South African Federation of Textile, Garment & Leather
Workers Unions (SAFTGLWU) , thanking him for good wishes, acknowledging
that establishment of the federation will bring greater unity for labor
in South Africa, February 16, 1987; letters from Briones to
African-American Labor Center program director Byron Charleton
discussing proposal by ITGLWF for organizing and educational programs
for Nigerian trade unions, budget issues, need for stricter accounting
by ITGLWF, February 19 and March 2, 1987; letter from the general
secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to all
affiliated organizations, asking for contributions for famine relief in
Mozambique, March 19, 1987; letter to Mazur from the executive director
of the Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development re financing for
training program for members of Garment Workers Industrial Union of
Natal, March 26, 1987; letter to Mazur from F. L. Swartz, writing as
honorary secretary of the South African Federation of Leather Trade
Unions, noting that he had resigned from SAFTGLWU, hoping to meet with
Mazur, April 17, 1987; letter to Mazur from Patrick O'Farrell thanking
him for contribution to seminar and internships on union organizing,
April 22, 1987; memo to Mazur from ILGWU international affairs director
Briones re union-to-union proposal, changes in the South African union
leadership, April 22, 1987; letter to Mazur from the Hunger Project
asking for nominations for first annual Africa Prize for Leadership for
the Sustainable End of Hunger, April 3, 1987; minutes of meeting of
Africa Support Group, re Mozambique and Angola, written by ILGWU
director Briones, May 29, 1987; urgent memo to Mazur from Briones re
proposal to work with ACTWU on union-to-union program in South Africa,
June 19, 1987; related memos from Briones; letter from Jack Sheinkman,
president of ACTWU, to the secretary of the SAFTGLWU confirming interest
in participation in union-to-union program; "Re-Building South Africa
Beyond Apartheid: Non-Racial Alliances as Agents for Change," address by
the Hon. Mr. J. H. Steyn, executive chairman, the Urban Foundation
(USA), Inc., to the South Africa Club, London, October 22, 1986; "The
Garment, Textile & Leather Industries in South Africa," prepared by
the AALC (AFL-CIO affiliated African-American Labor Center), October 1,
1986; urgent memo to Mazur from Briones re disaffiliation of National
Union of Leather Workers, regrouping of affiliates, October 27, 1986;
note from Elliot Hague re South Africa-free S&P 500 universe offered
by SM&M Capital Management Corp., October 7, 1986; memo from Briones
to Mazur with attached Report of Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons
trip to South Africa, outline of strategy of economic sanctions to end
apartheid, July 25, 1986; invitation to Mazur for 25th Anniversary
Tribute to Peter, Paul and Mary at the Kennedy Center to benefit the
Free South Africa movement, January 22, 1986; letter to Mazur from
coalition of organizations opposing apartheid, inviting him to meeting
to plan mass demonstration, January 6, 1986; letter to Mazur from
Patrick O'Farrell, executive director of AFL-CIO affiliated
African-American Labor Center noting attack on AFL-CIO by TransAfrica
Forum, a quarterly journal of opinion, with copy of February-March
issues, June 2, 1986; draft of article re recently formed Congress of
South African Trade Unions (COSATU), with cover note to Mazur, January
28, 1986; handwritten notes by participants in sewing class, with
attached newspaper clippings, 1986; mailgrams from Mazur, Sol Chaikin,
and other ILGWU officials to South African president Botha protesting
detention of Yunus Saik and other trade union leaders, January-July,
1986; full-color anti-apartheid posters, urging boycott and sanctions,
by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; memo to Mazur
from Michele Briones reporting on meeting with AALC, October 13, 1986;
report, "The Garment, Textile & Leather Industries in South Africa,"
prepared by AALC, October 7, 1986; handwritten notes; newspaper
clippings with memos to Mazur
Southern Labor InstituteReport by Southern Labor Institute, "The Climate for Workers in the
United States," comparing conditions by state, August 19, 1986
Stenzor, IsidorObituary of Isador Stenzor; letter to Mazur from Steve Nutter, regional
director of ILGWU Western States Region, thanking him for statement re
Stenzor, March 31, 1988
SweatshopsPress release announcing merger of ILGWU and ACTWU to take on sweatshops
and forge new international strategies, February 20; bullet points re
legislation to enhance anti-sweatshop enforcement in NYS apparel
industry; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec vp Susan Cowell re NYS sweatshop
legislation, January 19; analysis of New York Times article of February
6, describing sweatshops throughout NYC; letter from Mazur to Eli Elias,
president of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association, asking for
united labor-industry support for legislation enhancing enforcement
against sweatshops, January 23; letter from concerned citizens of
Chinatown to firefighters, ILGWU, senators, asking for investigation of
sweatshops, March 29; letter to Mazur from Greater New York
Labor-Religion Coalition, praising ILGWU ad in New York Times against
sweatshops, with attached letter from clothing retailer GAP, September
14; Coalition of Labor Union Women memo, October 8, with attached
information packet including press release, "Secretary Reich Announces
Results of Labor Department's Sweep of New York Garment Industry
Sweatshops," November 30, fact sheet on the NYC Garment Sweatshop
Initiative, list of co-sponsors of Stop Sweatshop Act of 1997, "Dear
Colleague" letter from Reps. William Clay and Nydia Velazquez urging
support of act, sample letter to Guess, calling for elimination of
sweatshops; resolutions submitted by UNITE to AFL-CIO Convention, on
sweatshops and other issues, October 1995; remarks by Mazur at sweatshop
rally, October 26; memo from Mazur to UNITE vice presidents re
anti-sweatshop campaign, November 10; report to Mazur by UNITE
legislative director Evelyn Dubrow re press conference by Secretary of
Labor Robert Reich on his anti-sweatshop campaign, December 5; newspaper
Sweatshops, clippings
SweatshopsPress release, "ILG Backs Cuomo in Push for Crackdown on Sweatshops,"
January 6; U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on sweatshops
in the apparel and other industries throughout the U.S., with cover memo
to Mazur and other ILGWU officials from ILG chief counsel Max Zimny,
September 14; press release, statement by Mazur at press conference with
Rep. Chuck Schumer re GAO report on sweatshops, calling for stricter
federal legislation, June 26, 1989
TahariMemo to file from Mazur re clothing firm Tahari, withdrawing from NLRB
action, willing to discuss damages, meet with Mazur and ACTWU president
Jack Sheinkman; handwritten notes by Mazur
Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990See also NAFTA; see also Uruguay Round; see also Globalization; see also
Speeches - Trade Legislation HR 2149; see also Wall Street Journal Press
release by the Fiber, Fabric & Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT),
"FFACT Chairman Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee in Support of
New Textile Bill," June 7, 1990; transcript of statement; "Mobilize to
Win: How You Can Help Enact the Textile, Apparel and Footwear Act of
1990," prepared by the Fiber, Fabric & Apparel Coalition for Trade,
June 1990; FFACT fact sheets, "Textile, Apparel and Footwear Trade Act
Offers Real Solutions to Import Problem," Senate and House cosponsors,
and others, May-June 1990; published scholarly articles, "Trade-Linked
Labor Standards," by Ray Marshall, May 1990, and "The World Economy
after the Cold War," by C. Fred Bergsten, Foreign Affairs, 1990
Textile and Apparel Trade LegislationSee also ILGWU Legislative Department; see also Globalization; see also
Speeches - Trade Legislation HR 2149; see also ITGLWF Fifth World
Congress, Tokyo, September 26-30, 1988 Confidential memos to Mazur from
ILGWU director of research Herman Starobin re Multifiber Arrangement,
GATT lobbying strategies, May 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU legislative
director Eveyln Dubrow re meeting with Starobin, ACTWU president Jack
Sheinkman, and others re strategy, October 20, 1989; letter from Mazur
to Daniel Frierson, chairman of FFACT (and Dixie Yarns) re strategy,
July 27, 1989; letter to Mazur from Sen. Bill Bradley outlining reasons
for his opposition to the Textile, Apparel and Footwear Act of 1988,
with cover letter from Mazur to FFACT chairman Frierson; letter from
Mazur to Frierson with attached memo sent to ILGWU staff re new version
of Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987, August 26, 1988; outline of
trade information for Mazur re impact on jobs, import penetration; fact
sheet on agricultural exports; trade info for CNN, c. 1988
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987See also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986 Letters
from U.S. members of Congress and senators re their position on Textile
and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; letter to Rep. Stephen Solarz from ILGWU
director of research Herman Starobin, providing requested statistical
analysis, March 11, 1987; letter to Mazur from president of Local 100,
Transport Workers Union, with copy of response by Rep. Solarz explaining
opposition to trade act based on possible loss of jobs in trucking and
other industries, December 15, 1987; letter from Mazur to Workmen's
Circle, urging lobbying on behalf of bill, July 21, 1987; letter from
Rep. Solarz to Walter Kirschenbaum, director of public affairs of
Workmen's Circle, with cover note to Mazur from ACTWU president Jack
Sheinkman, October 14, 1987; letter from International Leather Goods,
Plastics and Novelty Workers' Union to members of NY congressional
delegation who voted against the bill, urging them to reconsider when
bill is returned after veto, September 29, 1987; unsigned confidential
memos to Mazur re lobbying strategy; handwritten notes by Mazur; memos
from Mazur to ILGWU staff and all regional directors re need to lobby
senators in their district offices, with list of cosponsors, September
21 and November 16, 1987; form letters to members of Congress and
senators from Social Democrats, USA, supporting bill, August 4, 1987;
letter thanking Mazur for information, offering assistance, from United
Mine Workers president Richard Trumka, July 2, 1987; form letters for
union members to congressmen, newspaper editors, etc., with cover letter
to regional directors re Community Action Day for leafleting at shopping
centers, June 24, 1987; local action checklist, sent to all regional
directors, June 15, 1987; German Press Review digest of articles
critical of trade bill, May 12, 1987; memo with description of Omnibus
Trade Bill of 1987, prepared by staff of the Senate Committee on
Finance, proposed by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.), February 3, 1987;
Congressional Record transcript of Sen. Bentsen's proposal of bill;
letter from Rep. Butler Derrick, chairman of the Congressional Textile
Caucus, updating supporters of HR 1154, noting that omnibus trade bill
does not accomplish enough, March 24, 1987; letter from ILGWU research
director Herman Starobin to secretary of U.S. International Trade
Commission re standardization of rules of origin, January 28, 1987;
letter from Mazur to Lynn Williams, president, United Steelworkers of
America, expressing concern over proposed final report of the Panel on
U.S. Policy Toward the Newly Emerging Industrial Countries of the
Economic Policy Council, suggesting that labor members of panel issue
minority report, February 4, 1987; letter to Mazur from Fight Back
America asking for list of contacts for each ILGWU local, with note from
Mazur to staff asking about the identity of the group; invitation to
ILGWU official Gus Tyler from congressional Office of Technology
Assessment to serve on Advisory Panel on Technology, Innovation, and
U.S. Trade, February 6, 1987; list of unions and other organizations in
coalition to reform the Hatch Act, July 7, 1987; letter from Committee
for International Support of Trade Union Rights to California Labor
Federation re purchase of Korean-made crane by Port of Oakland,
implementation of boycott, April 11, 1987; letters between ILGWU
president emeritus Sol Chaikin and Institute for International Economics
re invitation to meeting of study group on Trade Policy Toward Textiles
and Apparel, with topical agenda, December 8, 1987; the AFL-CIO American
Federationist, "The Roots of the Trade Crisis," April 18, 1987; letter
from Mazur and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman to International
Longshoremen's Association Local 824 president John Bowers asking that
NYS AFL-CIO withhold endorsement of state congressional representatives
who voted against the Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987 despite
promising to support it, with attached list of other union leader
recipients, August 11, 1988; statement by Mazur before the Senate
Committee on Finance in support of the act, July 30, 1987; remarks by
Mazur on the Multifiber Arrangement, for presentation at seminar in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1987; newspaper clippings
Textile and Apparel Trade Endorsement Act of 1985See also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986; see
also Speeches - Democratic Policy Commission; see also Imports -
Roll-Back Campaign 1984-1985; see also Political Correspondence 1986
Message from the President of the United States (Ronald Reagan)
transmitting his veto of Textile & Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of
1985, with full text of bill, December 17, 1985; memo to all ILGWU
regional directors from Saul Rosen noting Reagan veto as "Christmas
present to America's 2 million garment workers," January 7, 1986; memo
to Mazur with notes on legislation and imports in preparation for
congressional meetings in Washington, March 10 and 11 (1987); memo from
the Kamber Group to ACTWU General Executive Board outlining strategy
campaign to override the veto, March 17, 1986; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
vp Susan Cowell re Kamber memo, March 31, 1986; memo to Mazur from Saul
Rosen re Kamber memo and Susan Cowell's critique, April 7, 1986; memo
from vp Cowell to exec vp Wilbur Daniels re coordinating with ACTWU on
override campaign, April 24, 1986; press release from ACTWU, "American
Public Supports Override of Textile Bill Veto, According to New National
Opinion Survey," July 28, 1986; Statement of Jack Sheinkman,
secretary/treasurer, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union;
Statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, calling for veto of veto;
charts showing increase in U.S. textile and apparel imports and
concurrent decline in industry jobs, 1975-85, and related fact sheets;
letter from President Reagan to Sen. Strom Thurmond re concerns over
unemployment and decrease in textile/apparel production caused by
imports, October 4, 1982; letters or press releases from National
Farmers Organization, Oklahoma Farmers Union, National Corn Growers
Association, National Consumers League, and American Textile
Manufacturers Institute in support of bill; Statement by the AFL-CIO
Executive Council on Overriding the Veto of the Textile and Apparel
Trade Enforcement Act, August, 1986; material by the Fiber, Fabric &
Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT), including fact sheet on the Textile
and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act and analysis of trade issues, May
1986; Department of State "gist" summary of U.S. foreign relations
policy re textile import control program, March 1986; letters from Mazur
to Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, urging adoption of attached resolution
supporting override of veto of the trade bill, July 15 and 23, 1986;
memo from exec asst James Parrott, "Background Material for Schumer
Meeting," with arguments countering the congressman's misgivings about
the trade bill, July 28, 1986; fact sheets on NYC garment industry and
U.S. imports; memo from Parrott re need for fact sheet on why current
legislation is inadequate, to be prepared for congressmen, July 3, 1986;
letters to and from congressmen and Mazur and others re trade bill;
agenda, July 25 Override Meeting, with schedule for lobbying trip to the
Capitol; draft document with handwritten editing and notation "Starobin
for Sen. Hollings," apparently delivered on floor of Senate, criticizing
office of U.S. Special Trade Representative and trade agreement
increasing imports from Hong Kong and Taiwan, n.d.; letter to Secretary
of the Treasury James Baker III in his capacity of chairman of the
Economic Policy Council re failure of advisory process in not consulting
U.S. labor or industry representatives in negotiated agreement with Hong
Kong, signed by Mazur and industry association executives, July 2, 1986;
confidential memo from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin outlining
need for new trade legislation including a rollback of import
restrictions to 1985 levels, n.d.; unsigned papers, "The Need for the
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act," and paper on consumption
spending, June 1986; booklet by ILGWU, "The Import Problem," excerpted
from the General Executive Board Report to the 39th Convention of the
ILGWU, May 30-June 6, 1986; "An Analysis of the Veto Override Vote,"
with note from Mazur to exec. Asst. James Parrott and vp Susan Cowell,
n.d; memos from Mazur to all officers and staff and to all members re
narrow defeat of veto override, August 11 and 12, 1986; Statement by Jay
Mazur, "Failure to Override the President's Veto of the Textile and
Apparel Trade Enforcement Act," vowing to continue the fight, August 6,
1986; memo to Mazur from Saul Rosen advising that the ILG should not
make campaign contributions to any legislators who voted against
overriding the veto, even if they are otherwise friends, August 7, 1986;
Outcome of 1986 Congressional Elections, with notations re voting record
on Textile & Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985; letter from U.S.
Trade Representative to Mazur following up on dinner meeting, noting
differences in perspectives, November 6, 1986; draft of response by
research director Starobin to 5/5/86 Forbes article by Susan Lee re
trade, May 19, 1986; letter from candidate Stuart Epperson soliciting
campaign contribution in race against N. Carolina congressman Steve
Neal, notes commitment from Sen. Steve Symms to include textiles in
proposed FAIR Act, Oct. 3, 1986; letter from Harvard researcher Gloria
Webster to Mazur soliciting comments on draft of analysis of textile and
apparel trade dispute, October 17, 1986; press release, Text of
Testimony of Howard D. Samuel, President, Industrial Union Department,
AFL-CIO, before the Joint Economic Committee Hearings on the Occasion of
the 40th Anniversary of the Employment Act of 1946; "Meeting the
Challenge of International Competition," January 17, 1986; Statement of
Carlos Moore on Behalf of the American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition
Before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S.
House of Representative, in re. the Impact and Effectiveness of the
Caribbean Basin Initiative, February 27, 1986; text of speech by Under
Secretary for Economic Affairs Allan Wallis before the Economic Policy
Council, "Protecting Prosperity from Protectionism," January 17, 1986;
rebuttal to trade article by Timothy Taylor by Saul Rosen, January 12,
1986; Kiplinger Washington Letter re trade legislation, October 31;
newspaper clippings
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act- Save American
JobsSee also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986 ILGWU
press release, "New York Garment and Textile Workers Fight to Save Their
Jobs," re rally for Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, July 18,
1986; list of teleconference sites for Save American Industry and Jobs
Day, June 12, 1986; letters from Mazur to individual union members
thanking them for comments and interest
TradeSee also Textile & Apparel Trade; see also Imports; see also NAFTA;
see also General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); see also
Globilization; see also Caribbean Offshoring Subsidies Remarks by House
Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, "Building the Future of American
Trade: A New Fusion of America's Interests," Economic Strategy Institute
Annual Conference, March 10, 1994; press release, "Gephardt Announces
Introduction of Chile Free Trade Agreement Negotiation Act of 1994," May
9, 1994; letter to Gephardt from Sierra Club expressing strong support
for Chile free trade act, May 9, 1994; statistics re manufacturing,
trade deficits, and the economy through February 1994, with draft of
column for the Economy and You series, "Silent Bleeding," re loss of
jobs in textile and apparel industry, by Robert E. Swift, executive
director of Crafted with Pride in the U.S.A. Council, May 3, 1994;
letter to Mazur from U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor re concerns
over Guatemalan workers' rights under the Generalized System of
Preferences, July 27, 1994; letters from Mazur to Kantor re worker
rights violations in Honduras by Leslie Fay contractor, June 15, 1994;
memo to members of Labor/Industry Committee for International Trade
(LICIT) from executive director Howard Samuel outlining recommendations
for trade policy with Japan, September 16, 1994; policy papers: "U.S.
Japan Trade Relations: 1991 to the Present," March 31, 1992, and "Worker
Rights and Trade: Democracy's Next Frontier," American Institute for
Free Labor Development, October 24, 1994; letter from ILGWU research
director Herman Starobin to U.S. Department of Commerce deputy assistant
secretary for textile, apparel and consumer goods industries, re
certification of manufacturers of women's woolen coats for trade
adjustment assistance (Lou Levy and Son/Jersey Fashion, Jersey City, NJ,
and Lou Levy and Son, New York, NY), with attached documentation, August
3, 1994; survey from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International
Labor Affairs soliciting views on impact of bureau, with cover memo to
Mazur from ILGWU research director Starobin, November 3, 1994; memo to
Mazur from Starobin re trade: where do we go from here? December 7,
1994; memo from Starobin to ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow and
Mazur summarizing high points of Mark Anderson's CBI parity memo, March
23, 1995; letter to Dubrow from U.S. Department of Commerce deputy
assistant secretary for textiles, apparel and consumer goods industries,
re failure of ILGWU proposal with Microcompatibles, Inc., to qualify for
funding under Advanced Technology Program, with attached press release
describing the program, November 1, 1994; memo from Starobin to Mazur,
Correction to NAFTA, recommending specific policy changes, January 5,
Triangle Fire CommemorationText of speech by Mazur; letter from Mazur to Central Labor Council
inviting them to 1994 rally, with the theme of supporting safe working
conditions for workers throughout the world, with attached flyers and
agenda, list of attendees; ILGWU press release press release "Mark 83rd
Anniversary of Triangle Fire with Call for 'No More' Industrial
Tragedies Here or Abroad; Leading Chinese Dissident, Others Spotlight
Parallels with Fires That Killed 537 Workers in Thailand and China,"
March 25, 1994; letter to actress/singer Barbra Streisand re her
acquisition of rights to Leon Stein's The Triangle Fire, describing
significance of the fire, offering assistance, February 24, 1994
Triangle Fire CommemorationList of speakers and invited dignitaries at 1993 rally; speech by Mazur,
March 25, 1993
Triangle Fire CommemorationFlyer promoting stronger job safety laws, OSHA reform; letter from Mazur
to ILGWU NYC managers announcing Triangle rally with theme supporting
proposed legislation to strengthen OSHA regulations; letter of
invitation to rally, with list of recipients; program, with order of
speakers; outline of anti-sweatshop remarks by Mazur, text of
introductions of speakers; related correspondence
Triangle Fire CommemorationText of speech by Mazur, with introductions for other speakers, including
NYC mayor David Dinkins, NYC fire commissioner Carlos Rivera, NYS labor
commissioner Thomas Hartnett, and relatives of victims of Triangle and
Happy Land Social Club fires; program agenda; list of dignitaries on
stage; press release re event, noting fire drill as part of
commemoration; press release demanding stricter federal workplace safety
laws, "Labor Demands 'Safe Jobs Now' on 81st Anniversary of Triangle
Fire," March 25; press release re Apparel Industry Fire Safety Week,
noting one of largest fire drills in NYC history, March 27; flyer
publicizing the event; publicity material for "The Triangle Project," an
original play commissioned for the 80th anniversary; related
correspondence; letter from the granddaughter of a garment worker and
poem about the fire; newspaper clippings
Triangle Fire CommemorationDrafts of letter from Mazur announcing commemoration event, plus start of
a new national Campaign for Justice to organize immigrant workers at
modern-day sweatshops, beginning with the Haitian workers of the Domsey
Trading Company and other factories in Brooklyn, with mailing list,
March 7 and 8; letter to Mazur from Workmen's Circle president,
accepting invitation to joing Campaign for Justice, March 22; letters
from Mazur inviting guest speakers; program agendas; text of
introductions of speakers; flyer supporting Domsey strikers; newspaper
clippings, copy of ILGWU newspaper, Justice, March 1990, re Triangle
commemoration and Domsey campaign
Triangle Fire CommemorationText of remarks by Mazur at Triangle commemoration, March 29, 1989, with
anti-homework theme; draft, "Return of the Sweatshop," January 12, 1989;
text of introduction of speakers; list of speakers and dignitaries;
letters of invitation to speakers, with attached industrial homework
fact sheet; text of remarks by ILGWU secretary-treasurer Irwin Solomon
at dedication of monument to Triangle Fire victims at Workman's Circle
cemetery, March 23, 1989; memo to Mazur from asst David Melman re plans
for Triangle fire exhibit at Lower East Side Tenement museum, December
28, 1989; poem from the New Yorker, "The Shirt," by Robert Pinsky, re
Triangle fire, with cover note to Mazur, July 26, 1989
Triangle Fire CommemorationPress release, "Firefighters Salute Victims of Triangle Disaster as ILGWU
Leader Blasts Reagan Administration for 'Supporting Sweatshop
Conditions' in Decision to Allow Industrial Homework," March 25,
Triangle Fire CommemorationLetter from historian Joseph Brandes at William Paterson College of New
Jersey, suggesting that the ILGWU reprint his monograph on the history
of American Jewish labor, November 10, 1987; correspondence with the
American Labor Museum Botto House National Landmark (Haledon, NJ)
president re ILGW contribution for refreshments for opening reception of
Triangle Fire exhibit, October 7, 1987; text for plaque at site of
Triangle Fire; text of Mazur speech for Triangle Fire commemoration,
March 25, 1987; memo re AFL-CIO Texas Triangle Organizing Committee,
requesting financial help for ILGWU Central States affiliation, January
13, 1987
Triangle Fire Commemoration, 75th AnniversaryAgenda for event; memos re commemorative postage stamp, exhibit at New
York Public Library, 1984; sketches of monument and graves; Mazur radio
script for Bob and Betty Sanders talk show, Interview WMCA Radio, March
25, 1986; press advisory re interview with Triangle survivor Pauline
Cuoio Pepe before 75th anniversary commemorative ceremonies; background
information on Mrs. Pepe; press release re event, March 25, 1986;
thank-you card from Mrs. Pepe; agenda for commemorative event, March 25,
1986; Statement by Governor Cuomo on the 75th Anniversary of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; list of invited dignitaries; letters of
invitation to Gov. Cuomo, ILGWU directors; list of those confirmed to
attend; speech of Vince Maltese, grandson of three of the victims;
introduction by Mazur to Pepe press conferences; letter from York
College, CUNY, thanking ILGWU for loan of Triangle exhibit, November 10,
1986; letter to exec. vp Wilbur Daniels from ILGWU Archives Department
re need for greater cooperation, October 15, 1986; letter from the son
of Triangle survivor Bessie Grabrilowich Cohen re trip to NY for
commemoration, March 14, 1986; resolution passed by the New York City
Council honoring victims of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, opposing
attempts to lower minimum wage for teenagers, cut Social Security,
reduce inspection of factories, weaken labor unions, and exploit
foreign-born labor, June 21, 1985; letters of thanks to NYC fire and
police officials and others for assistance, April 2, 1986; memo re
availability of print by Ralph Fasanella, Dress Shop, depicting New York
garment factory, in tribute to Triangle workers, August 1, 1986;
newspaper clippings; copy of ILGWU Justice, with account of the fire,
March 1986
Trilateral CommissionSee also Speeches - Gray Area Phenomenon 1993; see also Globalization;
see also NAFTA; see also Center for Migration Studies Statement by Mazur
re draft paper on migration and refugee issues, March 27, 1993; paper,
"The International Migration Dilemma," by Doris Meissner, prepared for
the Trilateral Commission
Tunnel VisionSee also AFL-CIO - American Institute for Free Labor Development
1985-1988 Copy of book, Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy, and
Central America (Dan Cantor and Juliet Shor), criticizing the
anti-communist stance of the AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs
and U.S. trade unions generally; memo from American Institute for Free
Labor Development criticizing book, February 12, 1988; newspaper
clipping, "Labor as Usual," by William Serrin, Village Voice, February
23, 1988
Tyler, GusAssistant president of ILGWU and director of union's Education
Department. Letter from the executive director of the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities to the executive director of the New York
Council for the Humanities, urging him to make Gus Tyler's acquaintance,
December 20, 1987; report to the Education Committee of the General
Executive Board, October 7-12, 1987; note from Tyler to Mazur re
positive impression of African trade union leaders, September 22, 1987;
nine-page analysis by Tyler to Mazur of Dick Morris report re public
attitude on imports, September 22, 1987; letters from Tyler to
publishers re ILGWU Immigration Project, September 3, 1987; four-page
letter from Tyler re free trade as outmoded doctrine, need for
presidential candidates to address issue, with attached articles by
Tyler, September 14, 1987; memo from Tyler to Mazur re major current
projects of the Political/Educational Department, May 15, 1987; letter
from the Harry Hopkins Public Service Institute asking Mazur to write to
the Postmaster General in support of a stamp honoring Hopkins, with
cover note from Mazur to Tyler asking him to draft a letter, April 4,
1987; text of talk by Tyler, "Our Economy Is a Leaky Bucket," which he
delivered to the Congressional Labor Roundtable and which was requested
by Rep. Major Owens to be included in the Congressional Record, with
note from Tyler to Mazur, March 22, 1984; article by Tyler, "A Tale of
Two Depressions," based on talk he gave to National Council of Senior
Citizens, with cover note to Mazur suggesting publication and wide
distribution, July 14, 1986; memo to Mazur re meeting for Black Economic
Prpoject, with attached article by Tyler, October 27, 1986; letter from
Gus Tyler to RCA Corp. re global economy, October 8, 1986; memo to Mazur
from Gus Tyler re Liberal Party, National Planning Association, December
22, 1986; article by Tyler, "Homework: Big Treasury Loss," December 19,
1984; memo from Tyler to Mazur re several pending projects, December
1986; articles by Tyler forwarded to vp Evy Dubrow re why decline of the
dollar has not helped trade balance, October 27, 1986; article in Mother
Jones by Jeff Faux, head of the Economic Policy Council, with cover memo
from Tyler to vp Susan Cowell and Mazur, January 16, 1986
UnemploymentNewspaper clipping from New York Times, "Job Growth Is Stagnant in
Region," July 19; letter from National Committee for Full Employment re
First Friday Alerts, calculating "real rate" of joblessness and
underemployment, October 20, 1986
Unemployment Insurance
Union General de Trabajadores (UGT)Letter from Mazur to Angel Navarro, general secretary, Madrid, Spain,
agreeing to contribute $1,000 for election activities, August 22, 1986;
letter in Spanish and translation re death of Navarro in automobile
accident, with attached resolution by Executive Committee of federation,
July 15, 1987; list of newly elected Executive Committee members,
October 30, 1987
Union Labor ReportWeekly newsletters from the Bureau of National Affairs, Washington,
Union Square Sculpture ProjectHistory of Union Square from the 18th and 19th centuries, and its
significance in the origin of Labor Day, researched by Barry Gewenon
(sp?) for Gus Tyler, with cover note from Tyler to Mazur; memos to Mazur
from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re presentation by finalists; text of address
by Mazur to artists; descriptions of finalists' projects; letter from
Mazur to artist selected, November 27, 1990
United Association of Journeyment and Apprentices of the Plumbing
and Pipe Fitting IndustryDecision of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals re Willliam E. Brock,
Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, v. Joseph P. Mazzola et al., with
cover letter from attorney summarizing decision, November 1, 1986
United Auto Workers (UAW)Letter to Mazur from the Legal Staff Association of District 65, thanking
him for financial support in successful strike, August 12, 1991; letter
from UAW president Owen Bieber to AFL-CIO Executive Council members
inviting them to a rally in support of striking Caterpillar workers in
Peoria, IL, March 9, 1992; letter to Mazur from Bieber re cooperative
American Value Initiative with Big Three automakers, discussing research
by Peter Hart and Associates indicating that simple "buy American"
appeals to patriotism are strongly rejected, December 4, 1990; letter
from Bieber re American Value Initiative task force planning meeting,
February 20, 1990; letter from Bieber re results of Harris poll
indicating willingness of consumers to pay more for U.S. products of
comparable quality to Japanese imports, October 2, 1989; correspondence
re rally commemorating 25th anniversary of March on Washington,
July-August 1988; letter from the New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating
Council, affiliated with UAW Disrict 65, calling for rally, December 1,
1989; letter to Mazur from Bieber re Gephart trade deficit reduction
amendment as legislative priority of UAW, thanking Mazur for support,
May 8, 1987; letter from Mazur to Bieber thanking him for support for
Textile and Apparel Trade Act, October 7, 1988; letter from Mazur to
Bieber noting that a UAW local recently signed a contract with North
American Knitting (Mansfield, OH) far below industry standards, noting
ILGWU attempts to sign contract, urging assistance in bringing it about,
April 26, 1988; article on fair trade by ILGWU official Carl Proper, in
Dollars & Senses, April 1986; press releases on exporting jobs,
other issues
United Auto Workers (UAW) District 65Article re warehouse organizing, with cover letter to Mazur from vp Susan
Cowell, 1987; clipping from NY Newsday re health plan, May 25, 1993
UAW, Auto Industry WagesHandwritten note by Mazur noting wages and fringe benefits as of December
United Farm Workers of AmericaStatement by Mazur at rally for United Farmworkers, October 28, 1986;
letters to Mazur thanking him for participating in UFW events and grape
boycott, including letters from UFW president Ceasr Chavez re fast;
program and related correspondence for Cesar Chavez memorial service,
1993; letter to Mazur describing new contracts, October 1995; letter to
Mazur announcing election victory with Bear Creek Productions, January
3, 1995; letter from UFW president Arturo Rodriguez to Michael Babcock,
president, Leslie Fay Companies, urging him to keep 2,000 apparel jobs
in Northeast Pennsylvania rather than export them out of U.S.,
threatening boycott, with cover letter to Mazur, May 12, 1994; memo to
Rodriguez from attorney Marcus Camacho, litigation status report re
Bruce Church Inc. v. United Farm Workers over boycott, February 18,
1994; letter to Mazur from Coco-Cola Foods re sale of Minute Maid Groves
to a company bring formed by Bariston Associates, assuring him that
workers will be paid the same, December 17, 1993; letter from Rodriguez
to Teamsters president Ron Carey re representation dispute with Coastal
Vinyards, February 4, 1994
United Farm Workers of AmericaLetter to Mazur from United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez asking
that he order and distribute copies of video, "The Wrath of Grapes," to
ILGWU affiliates, June 28, 1988; letter to Mazur from Chavez inviting
him to be a sponsor of event honoring California Federation of Labor
president Jack Henning and 25th anniversary of union, March 4, 1987;
letter from Chavez thanking ILGWU for financial contribution, with
attached ad tearsheet for grape boycott, March 27, 1987; memo from Mazur
to all NYC managers urging support of grape boycott, organizing picket
lines at supermarkets, November 20, 1986; letter to Mazur from Chavez
thanking him for helping launch boycott of A&P, Food Emporium, and
Shopwell supermarkets, noting media coverage of picket line, November
24, 1986; letter to Mazur from Irv Hershenbaum, national representative
of UFW, inviting him to meeting with Rep. Charles Schumer to try to
dissuade him of his support for "guest worker" program, part of the
Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration bill, with attached newspaper clippings,
February 10, 1986; biographical sketch of Chavez; press release, "Cesar
Chavez Blasts Deukmejian in Address to Massachusetts Lawmakers, Meetings
with Gov. Dukakis, Mayor Flynn; Hammers at California Governor in
Harvard Law School Speech Tonight," February 28, 1985, with attached
excerpts from speech, prition to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board,
press clippings, with cover note, "The Case against Deukmejian for
Shutting Down Enforcement of Farm Labor Law"; press release, "Cesar
Chavez Organizes to Make Grape Boycott of '60s & '70s Work in
1980s," June 1985; copy of United Farm Workers Food and Justice,
April/May 1985; survey results re favorable perceptions of farm workers
toward union, and press release from Indiana University-Purdue
University at Indianapolis, January 12, 1985; newspaper clippings,
1983-85, with cover note, "What Scientific Surveys Say about Support for
the UFW among Farm Workers and the Public"
United Federation of Teachers, Feldman, SandraSee also Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies Memo from Mazur to
ILGWU vp Susan Cowell and Ron Carver re meeting with Feldman for
Fasanella Project, August 1, 1990
United Feminist Action CampaignLetter from ILGWU asst president Gus Tyler to Molly Yard, United Feminist
Action Campaign, asking to set a meeting to introduce Yard to ILGWU
women to form a bridge between the feminists of NOW (National
Organization for Women) and traditional worker constituencies, August
11, 1987
United Food and Commerical WorkersLetter re Marval Poultry Co./Rocco Turkeys (W. Va.) strike/boycott, with
attached ads, October 1986; letter from Mazur thanking union for support
of ILGWU efforts to pass Textile and Apparel Trade Act, October 7, 1988;
letter from Mazur to William Wynn, president, UFCW, re Weirmar
Manufacturing Corp. and its runaway shop, H&B Distribution Corp.
(Keasbey, NJ), with whom UFCW had a collective bargaining agreement,
asking for help in resolving matter, May 5, 1988; faxed letter to ILGWU
from Department Store Employees Union Local 1100, chartered by UFCW,
asking for letters of support in negotiations with Macy's, April 28,
United Furniture Workers of AmericaCopy of merger agreement with International Union of Electronic,
Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers (IUE), with cover
letters from attorneys to Mazur and William Bywater, president, IUE,
March-August 1988
United Garment WorkersLabor Organization Annual Report to Department of Labor
United Hebrew TradesLetterhead with list of affiliates; letter from AFL-CIO re request for
waiving per capita tax, April 6, 1989; letter to Mazur from Sidney
Davidson, president and financial secretary of United Hebrew Trades,
thanking him for contribution enabling them to pay per capita tax,
December 13, 1989
United Housing Foundation
United Housing FoundationExecutive Director's Report, January 4, 1994, primarily about CATCH
program; resolution re restated retirement plan, signed by Mazur January
6, 1993; notice to Mazur re meeting of Board of Directors, May 13, 1993;
minutes of special meetings of the Board of Directors held on October
16, 1992, and May 1, 1995; draft memo to Board of Directors from
executive director re CATCH program, October 2, 1992; fax to Board of
Directors from executive director noting previous memo was a draft, with
attached final memo, October 13, 1992; letter to Mazur from executive
director re providing grant of $60,000 for services for older residents
of the United Jewish Appeal - Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New
York Grand Street cooperatives and Amalgamated Warbasse, December 3,
1992; financial statement for years ending December 31, 1991 and 1990,
with cover letter to Mazur, June 4, 1992
United Housing Foundation- Affordable Housing ForumSee also Speeches - United Housing Foundation 1992 Letter from Mazur and
Jack Sheinkman (president, ACTWU) to several members of Congress,
inviting them to National Housing Policy Forum, March 19, 1992; list of
invited congressional speakers and summary of their proposed
legislation, March 26, 1992; briefing materials (agenda, policy
recommendations), May 13, 1992; drafts of remarks to forum by Mazur;
Statement of Sen. Harris Wofford to United Housing Foundation National
Housing Policy Forum, May 7, 1992; Report on the National Housing Policy
Forum: "Creating Affordable Housing in a Time of Crisis," May 7,
United Housing Foundation"Mutual Housing for Distressed Properties," n.d. (January 8, 1991?);
minutes of meetings of Board of Directors, October 9, 1990, January 7,
1991, September 10, 1991, and meeting of Board of Directors of Community
Services, Inc., September 10, 1991; financial statements for years ended
December 31, 1990 and 1989, and 1989 and 1988; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
vp Susan Cowell re role of UHF as catalyst for union pension-backed
subsidized housing, December 1, 1991; settlement agreement with Riverbay
Corporation (Co-op City), July 24, 1990; related legal correspondence
(Abrams v. Community Services, Inc.), 1989-September 1990; memo from
attorney re proposals for construction loan fund for Brooklyn Ecumenical
Cooperatives (BEC) and its nonprofit housing development corporation,
New Communities, Inc., April 13, 1989; correspondence re induction of
UHF president Harold Ostroff into the Cooperative Hall of Fame,
November-December 1989; minutes of October 28, 1988, joint meeting of
Boards of Directors of United Housing Foundation and its subsidiary,
Community Services, Inc.; newspaper clippings
United Housing FoundationRestated retirement plan actuarial valuation as of January 1, 1988;
financial statements for years ended December 31, 1987 and 1986; legal
decision denying summary judgment in Co-op City litigation, Abrams v.
Community Services Inc., November 2, 1988; letter to Mazur from Mutual
Redevelopment Houses re desire to renegotiate mortgage, November 4,
1986, with cover memo from ILGWU secretary/treasurer Irwin Solomon and
related correspondence, December 3, 1986; personal and confidential
proposal to UHF and Jack Sheinkman (president, ACTWU) for UHF to
participate in Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperative's Housing Rehabilitation
Program, August 11, 1988
United Mine Workers of AmericaLetter from Mazur to the postmaster general urging the issuance of a
commemorative stamp honoring labor leader John. L. Lewis on the 100th
anniversary of the United Mine Workers, March 7, 1989; letter to Mazur
from UMWA president Richard Trumka urging him to lobby the U.S. Postal
Service in support of a stamp honoring Lewis, with attached ad and
biographical sketch; letter from Mazur to Trumka thanking him for help
in lobbying for the Textile and Apparel Trade Act, October 10, 1988;
letter from Mazur to Trumka seeking financial contribution for a rally
by the Coalition of Labor Union Women in support of child care and
family leave, June 22, 1987; letters to Mazur from Trumka updating him
on progress of various UMWA negotiations, strikes, and other campaigns
with coal mine operators (Pittston, Decker, Big Horn); memos to Mazur
from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re support activities for Pittston
campaign, July-August, 1989; fundraising letter sent to NYC labor
leaders by the NYC Emergency Committee in Solidarity with the UMWA,
signed by Mazur and others in support of Pittston campaign, September
7,1989; memo to ILGWU NYC education directors reporting on rally to
Pittston corporate headquarters in Greenwich, CT, also attended by NYNEX
and Eastern Airlines strikers, October 6, 1989; Pittston campaign
publicity materials; bumper sticker; newspaper clippings; handwritten
United Mine Workers of America-Coal Commission ReportCoal Commission Report, Secretary of Labor's Commission on United Mine
Workers of America Retiree Health Benefits, November 1990; cover letter
to Mazur from UMWA president Richard Trumka describing the report, sent
to Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole by the advisory commission,
November 9, 1990
United Mine Workers, SolidarityPresentation to the Strategic Approaches Committee, AFL-CIO Executive
Council winter meeting, February 1993, re update on contract discussions
with various mine operators
United Nations Association of the United States of America
(UNA-USA)See also Economic Policy Council Agenda of annual Board of Directors
meeting of December 2, 1986, with background reading including report of
1986 program activities; letter to members of the Economic Policy
Council re search for replacement for Dan Burton as Executive Director;
update on activities, October 1992; invitation to conference on NAFTA,
with attached agenda, April 12, 1993
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, INC.Information packet re settlement house program, with cover letter to
Mazur, April 14, 1992
United Senior Action Day
United Senior Action Day
United States Information Agency (USIA)Draft of letter (by Gus Tyler with cover memo from Herman Starobin to
Mazur) noting objections by labor to current U.S. trade policy, November
30, 1993
United Steelworkers of AmericaLetter to Mazur from United Steelworkers international president Lynn R.
Williams asking to join in contributing to Technology and Work Program
(affiliated with University of Lowell, Lowell, MA), with attached
proposal, April 18, 1991; letters from Local 5668 president (Ravenswood,
W. Va.) and New York Guild Union Local 3 member re lock-out by
Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation, March 23, 1992; Wall Street Journal
newspaper clipping re efforts of union to reach out to white-collar
workers, May 23, 1991; flyer announcing AFL-CIO president John Sweeney's
attendance at rally in New York to demand that Merril Lynch, as top
shareholder of Wheeling-Pitt Steel, to urge company to settle strike
fairly, July 15, 1997; letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane
Kirkland detailing effort to support striking steelworkers at USX,
August 8, 1986
United Synagogue of AmericaPress release from Local 153, Office & Professional Employees
International Union (OPEIU), AFL-CIO, re strike against United Synagogue
of America over employer demand to switch health plans, January 24,
1990; copy of information booklet about United Synagogue of America,
listing presidents, officers
United Textile WorkersMemo to Mazur from ILGWU director of organization Joe Danahy re meeting
with Vernon Mustard, president of United Textile Workers, and move of
headquarters to Cherryhill, NJ, December 10, 1986
United Transportation UnionLetter from union president Fred Hardin to AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer
Thomas Donahue, objecting to interference with UTU election, October 6,
Usury, BillSee also Leslie Fay Co. 1994 Letters from Mazur to Herb Fishgold and Bill
Usury, president of labor-management consultants Bill Usury Associates,
Inc., expressing outrage, shock, and disgust at failure to enforce
labor-management cooperation agreement with Leslie Fay to preserve 600
jobs in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, May 3, 4, and 8, 1995; list
of talking points with Usery, May 3
Uruguay Round (NAFTA)-Apparel and TextilesMemo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re GSP
Decisions by USTR (United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor),
July 11, 1994; attached briefings, "Why Congress Should Not Rush to Vote
on the Uruguay Round" and "The Uruguay Round on Apparel and
Vickers, JohnLetter to Mazur from John Vickers, retiring manager, ILGWU Texas-Oklahoma
District Council, reminiscing about training institute, thanking him for
years of leadership, December 23, 1994
Visions/Services for the BlindProposal to Mazur for pilot project by Visions/Services for the Blind and
Visually Impared (merger of Vacations and Community Services for the
Blind with Center for Independent Living) to assist retired union
members, December 4, 1986
Voter RegistrationList of election law provisions re voter registration, absentee voting,
major party convention selection process, and election calendar by
state, 1988; memo to Mazur re voter-registration plans for NYC mayoral
campaign of David Dinkins, focusing on pro-Dinkins target groups (union
membership, immigrants), March 17, 1989
Vyorst, SidneyLetter to Vyorst from ILGWU exec vp Irwin Solomon refuting claim that
Vyorst has a contract with ILGWU, asking for appointment to discuss
matter, March 19, 1986; letters to Mazur from Vyorst quoting life
insurance rates, 1984; letter to Mazur re contract, 1983
Wage-Hour ComplianceDraft of San Francisco, CA, Department of Labor press release re
voluntary model agreement for apparel industry in Region 9, with cover
note to Mazur from Max Zimny, n.d.; revised statement, July 22, 1994
Wall Street JournalSee also Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990 Memo to Mazur
re visit to ILGWU archives by Wall St. Journal reporter, July 23, 1986;
newspaper clippings from Journal, some with cover memos to Mazur and
other ILGWU officials re contents, 1985; letter to the editor from ILGWU
research director Herman Starobin correcting factual errors in article
re apparel trade legislation, with article attached, July 31, 1990;
letter to Journal from ILGWU Political Department associate director
David Wells responding to article by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. re electoral
college system of presidential election, August 24, 1988
Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIOLetter to AFL-CIO International Union Political Action Departments asking
for compilations of congressional voting records on issues of interest,
May 8, 1987
Weiss, Ted (Congressional Campaign)Letter to Mazur from Weiss thanking him for contribution to congressional
Western UnionDescription of group mobilization "action hotline" mailgram services,
faxed to Mazur by pro-union sales representative, April 9, 1990
White HouseCorrespondence with Executive and congressional branches: faxed message
from White House comparing President Clinton's budget proposal to
Republican congressional proposal, vowing veto, May 19, 1995;
Congressional Quarterly list of congressional committees and
subcommittees, profiles of new Republican members; letter from Mazur to
Labor Secretary Robert Reich, urging continued ban on industrial
homework in women's apparel industry, with attached position paper
crafted for ILGWU by Shea & Gardner, May 10, 1993; testimony on the
World Trade Organization by Dr. Herman Starobin, research director,
ILGWU, before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of
Representatives, June 17, 1994; statement by Evelyn Dubrow, vice
president and legislative director, ILGWU, before the Subcommittee on
Trade, re trade with China, August 4, 1994; letter to Mazur from Pres.
Clinton acknowledging attendance at AFL-CIO convention, stating support
for longstanding pro-labor legislation, November 22, 1995; letter to
Mzur from Harold Ickes, deputy chief of staff, noting support by Clinton
for increase in minimum wage, August 28, 1995; letter to Mazur from Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan re health care reform, status of Health Security
Act, December 5, 1994; address by Moynihan to Democratic National
Convention, with cover letter to Mazur, December 16, 1994; letters to
Mazur from Vice President Al Gore (addressed to "UNITED"), Sen. Dick
Gephart, Rep. Pat Schroeder (re opposition to Immigration in the
National Interest Act: to limit the number of refuges we admit would be
a "crime against humanity"), Rep. Charles Rangel (thanking him for
campaign contribution), and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (re itinerant Hong Kong
tailors using unfair sales tactics); letters to Mazur from Department of
Labor re Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act,
August 4, 1994, and rule change by Office of the American Workplace,
December 5, 1995; NYS Department of Labor press release, "State Labor
Commissioner Sweeney Urges Cooperation of U.S. Labor Secretary Reich:
'Meet Us Halfway' in fighting garment sweatshops," with attached letter,
November 1, 1995; letter to U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor from
Authur Andersen & Co. supporting NAFTA, October 9, 1995; invitation
to joint symposium by Departments of Labor and State, "Forced Labor: The
Growing Tragedy of the Prostitution of Children," September 29, 1995
Womensee also NYC - Commission on the Status of Women Letter to Mazur asking
him to be keynote speaker at conference, "Women's Rights, Workers'
Rights: Strengthening Women's Voices on the Job," cosponsored by the
AFL-CIO, March 23, 1995; letter to Mazur from ILGWU Pacific Northwest
District Council manager Katie Quan asking him to consider sending a
delegation to the U.N. Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing,
January 10, 1995; resolution re rights of women, submitted to
international organization FITTVCC/ORI by ILGWU and ACTWU, May 18, 1992;
letter from researcher for the New York Chinatown History Project,
listing questions about ILGWU's role in organizing women and
relationship with Local 23-25, May 30, 1990; newsletter, National
Women's Law Center Update, Summer 1990; resolutions on women and labor
by the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation,
April 1990 and April 1989; letter from National Women's Law Center re
Supreme Court and women's rights, reviewing decisions on employment
discrimination, abortion, November 12, 1986
Women's Garment IndustryILGWU Research Department paper, "Conditions in the Women's Garment
Industry," October 25, 1994
Women's Policy Research"Women's Work, Economic Trends, and Policy Issues," by Heidi Hartman,
director, Institute for Women's Policy Research, paper presented at
Organizing and Representing Professional, Technical and Salaried Women,
George Meany Labor Studies Center, Department of Professional Employees,
Women's Wear DailyTalking points for interview, n.d.; draft and final version of letter to
the editor from Mazur re inaccuracies of newspaper's report on
Congressional Budget Office study of U.S. apparel industry, January 14,
1992; newspaper clippings
Work and Family (AFL-CIO)Draft by ILGWU vp Susan Cowell and final letter from Mazur to AFL-CIO
president Lane Kirkland suggesting the creation of an Office of Work and
Family within the AFL-CIO; reply from Kirkland rejecting idea, but
noting that the area will be coordinated by one of his assistants;
meeting agendas of AFL-CIO Work and Family Steering Committee, October
25, 1990 - March 5, 1991; NYS Department of Labor newsletter, NY Works,
with article by Cowell, "Work and Family: A Labor Perspective," fall
1990; newspaper clippings
Work and Technology InstituteBylaws; list of Board of Directors; minutes of November 10, 1992, and May
5, 1993, Board meetings; list of 1993 objectives; conference
announcement, "Integrating Technology and People in High Performance
Work Systems," May 18-20, 1994; letter to Mazur announcing pilot
program, "Labor Participation in Workplace Modernization," asking him to
serve on advisory committee, November 29, 1994
Work in America Institute-Productivity ForumDirectory of members; brochures re schedule of events, Spring Roundtable,
May 23-25, 1995, Manager's Network, site visits to Miller Brewing Co.,
Trenton, Ohio, May 11, and Saturn Corp., Spring Hill, TN; cover letter,
August 28, 1995, describing attached reports, "Worker Representation and
Participation Survey: Second Report on Findings," Freeman & Rogers,
June 1, 1995, and "Human Resource Strategies and Contingent Workers: The
Case of Safety and Health in the Petrochemical Industry," Kochan et al.,
Human Resource Management, spring 1994; "Worker Representation and
Participation Survey: First Report on Findings," with cover letter,
January 3, 1995
Work in America Institute-Productivity ForumUpdate memo to members of Productivity Forum Advisory Board, July 26,
1994; update on activities and services for 1991/92, July 1, 1992
Work in America Institute-Awards Ceremony (Sheinkman,
Jack)Speeches by Mazur honoring Jack Sheinkman, president ACTWU
Work in America Institute-Board of Directors Meeting, April
18Agenda of Board of Directors meeting, with list of attendees; newsletter
April 1995; financial statements, March 31, 1995; letter to Mazur from
president Jerome M. Rostow re board meeting to discuss the future of
industrial relations, January 27, 1995; statement by Mazur, "Future of
Industrial Relations"; minutes of meeting of the Board of Directors,
April 27, 1994
Work in America Institute-Productivity Forum-Saturn Visit, April
7Agenda for site visit; copies of presentation slides about Saturn
Corporation, description of work unit functions; highlights of proposed
Saturn/ UAW agreement; final memorandum of agreement; chronology of
company history
Work in America Institute-Board of Directors Meeting, April
22Agenda of Board of Directors meeting, with list of attendees; minutes of
meeting of the Board of Directors, November 20, 1991; 1992 financial
statement for December 31, 1991 and 1990; lists of members of
Productivity Forum and affiliations; 1992 calendar; brochure, New Roles
for Managers, part IV
Work in America Institute-Board of Directors Meeting, November
20Minutes of meeting of the Board of Directors, May 2, 1991; 1991 financial
statement for December 31, 1990 and 1989; list of members; 1991/92
calendar; program brochures re job-linked literacy training, technology
training; notice of special guest appearance of Michael Bennett,
president of UAW Local 1853 of the Saturn Manufacturing Complex in
Spring Hill, TN, with attached article about Bennett from Detroit Free
Press, December 10, 1990
Work in America Institute-Board of Directors Meeting, May
2Agenda of meeting with list of attendees; 1991 calendar; national policy
study: "New Roles for Managers: Employee Involvement and the
Supervisor's Job"
Work in America Institute-Productivity ForumLetter of resignation as executive vice president of the Work in America
Institute, addressed to Mazur, from Dr. Michael Rostow, citing
irreconcilable differences with president, Rostow's father Jerome, as to
direction of the institute, February 2, 1993; letter to Mazur from
Jerome Rostow soliciting endorsement of institute, to be used in grant
applications from foundations, with attached statement of support by
Mazur, September 23, 1992; survey of members re casual dress code,
September 14, 1992; invitation to Mazur and list of labor participants
at Productivity Forum Roundtable, "Leading a Participative
Organization," September 25, 1991; invitation to Mazur to attend site
visit to Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems with Teamsters Local 1145,
Coon Rapids, MN, August 15, 1991; update on activities of the
Productivity Forum, including 1991/92 calendar, descriptive list of site
visits, July 1, 1991; 1991 calendar of the Productivity Forum and Work
in America Institute; policy papers, to be reviewed by National Advisory
Committee: "Government Stewardship for Job-Linked Literacy Programs,"
"Onan's Manufacturing Program," "At the Center for Employment Training
(CET): Si Se Pueda! It Can Be Done," "AC Rochester/UAW Program of
Workplace Literacy," April 10, 1991; directory of primary and associate
members of Productivity Forum, November 28, 1990; list of Advisory
Board; report, "Training for New Technology," inviting comments from
Mazur, February 24, 1986; invitation to fall roundtable, list of
organizations attending, October 17, 1986
Worker Opportunity Reemployment CenterSee also Speeches - Vocational Training Part of the Consortium for Worker
Education, a joint program of the NYC Department of Employment and NYS
Department of Labor; press release from the NYC Department of
Employment, "A New Center Helps Recently Laid Off Workers," noting state
dignitaries at opening ceremonies, n.d.; letters from Mazur thanking Lt.
Governor Stan Lundine and Mrs. Mathilda Cuomo for attending the opening,
February 23, 1990; fact sheets about the program for dislocated workers;
list of contractors receiving funds under the Economic Dislocation and
Worker Adjustment Assistance Act (EDWAAA), n.d.; article from The
Economist re world trade from a free-market viewpoint, with cover note
to Mazur, October 1990; unsigned drafts of letter to Robert W. McEnroe,
executive director, AFSCME Disitrict Council 1707, criticizing
"slanderous" article by 1707 political action director Karl Toth against
the late ILGWU president emeritus Sol Chaikin, ILGWU position on trade,
and AFL-CIO's international programs, May 28 and June 13, 1991;
handwritten notes
Workers Defense LeaguePrinted program for 55th Anniversary Dinner, honoring Richard Trumka,
president of United Mine Workers, May 13, 1991; invitations to other
annual dinners; lists of dinner attendees and affiliations
Workers Memorial DayLetter from Lane Kirkland, president, AFL-CIO, re observation of Workers
Memorial Day, April 28, 1991; list of suggested activities; local union
guide; brochures
Workers' Rights and TradeSee also Speeches - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; see also
Globalization; see also Speeches - Trade & Workers' Rights Draft of
statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council, "Worker Rights and the
Global Economy," February 1994; proposal by ILGWU for Workers Rights
Center in Miami, FL, with cover letter by Mazur to the president of the
Union Privilege Program, March 1994; AFL-CIO International Affairs
Department IAD Fax Sheet re endorsement of worker rights protection by
European Parliament, February 10, 1994; ICFTU (International
Conferderation of Free Trade Unions) briefing paper, "Linking Workers'
Rights and Trade: The Social Clause," February 1994; resolution, "The
GATT Uruguay Round and the Multifibre Agreement," by the International
Textile, Garment & Leather Worker's Federation (ITGLWF) Executive
Committee, declaring December 6, 1993, "Trade and Workers' Rights Day,"
with cover memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director
Michele Briones; "Outline for Discussion of Trade and Worker Rights,"
with attached memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman
Starobin, October 20, 1993; letter from Starobin to Jennifer Hillman,
chief textile negotiator, office of U.S. Trade Representative, re
ongoing denial of workers' rights in bilateral trade negotiations,
October 28, 1993; ITGLWF press release, "Unions Worldwide Demand Use
Trade to Enforce Workers' Rights," December 4, 1993; remarks by AFL-CIO
President Lane Kirkland to the Internationmal Labor Rights Coalition
International Workers Rights and Trade Conference, January 5, 1989;
newsletter of the International Labor Rights Education and Research
Fund, Worker Rights News, February 1989; AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Department press release, "IUD Pledges Continued Effort on Behalf of
Workers Rights," November 16, 1988;
Workman's CircleNational Jewish fraternal-labor organization; letter to Mazur from
assistant to NYS Governor Mario Cuomo re Department of Social Services
audit concerns, financial difficulties, February 20, 1990; memo from
Mazur to Gus Tyler requesting that he prepare a message for the 90th
anniversary and Jubilee Convention of Workmen's Circle, April 30, 1990;
edited draft and final text of message, noting common history, May 8,
1990; handwritten notes by Mazur; letter thanking Mazur for $1,000
contribution to restricted building fund for modernizing the Workmen's
Circle Home and Geriatric Center, August 30, 1990; copy of check from
ILGWU contributing $200 to Workman's Circle Division of ORT
(Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) youth program,
related correspondence, April 15, 1987; letter to Mazur with sketch of
monument headstones for his approval for Workman's Circle, September 21,
1987; press release by Workmen's Circle opposing Reagan nomination of
Robert Bork to Supreme Court, n.d.; invitation to ILGWU president Sol
Chaikin to Workmen's Circle convention, February 25, 1986; information
describing Workman's Circle Home and Infirmary for the Aged, November
10, 1986; statement by ILGWU saluting 94th anniversary
Workplace SafetyPress release by Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman announcing
ten-point safety program, noting deterioration of OSHA enforcement under
the Reagan administration, with cover note from Holtzman to Mazur,
January 27, 1987
Yale Political UnionInvitations to Mazur to speak at Yale Political Union, noting past
speakers of national importance, December 29, 1993, and June 14, 1994;
memo to Mazur from ILGWU ass president Gus Tyler discussing possible
topics for his address: "What the Labor Movement Stands For," "Labor's
Program for America," or "Labor Faces the 21st Century," January 6,
1994; memo from Tyler suggesting talk focus on Leslie Fay experience,
titled, "America's Economic Futrure," June 27, 1994; memo to Mazur from
CAF director Carl Proper suggesting topic for speech: "Nationalism,
Globalism and Democracy," January 10, 1994; invitation to Mazur to seak
at the New York trip of Yale's Independent Party, June 1, 1994
Yalowity, NatSee also National Health and Human Service Employees Union Letter to
Mazur from Yalowitz, administrator of the Local 1199 Home Care Industry
Benefits Fund, with attached resume
Young Social DemocratsLetter to Mazur from Sam Schube, executive director of Young Social
Democrats, thanking him for contribution and congratulating him on
Eugene Debs Award, May 23, 1987; copy of $1,000 check from ILGWU to
Young Social Democrats, with letter from Mazur, March 5, 1987
YugoslaviaDraft statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council, "Sarajevo and Beyond:
Conflict in the Former Yugoslav Republics," condemning genocidal attacks
by Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic's government against the people
of Bosnia-Hersegovina and Kosovo and Croatia, urging military
intervention by U.S. and U.N., August 1992
ZensenSee also Japan Institute of Labor; see also Speeches - Zensen 1987
Original signed joint statement at 5th Joint Conference of
ZENSEN-ACTWU-ILGWU in Kyoto, Japan, declaring trade union rights and
human rights should be a standard in determining international trade,
written in English and Japanese, November 26, 1987; opening statement by
Mazur; agenda items; draft report by Evelyn Dubrow, September 23, 1987;
Labor Department fact sheet on women workers, January 1987; longer paper
prepared by ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re women workers, with cover memo to
James Parrott, September 11, 1987; memo to ILGWU international relations
director Michele Briones from director of organization Joe Danahy asking
her to find out whether Japanese zipper company YKK is unionized, with
attached report on Universal Fasteners, Lawrenceburg, KY; list of
conference attendees from ILGWU and Zensen labor organization; copies of
photos from conference (originals in Kheel photo archives)
Zensen-5th Joint Conference-ILGWU ReportFormal presentation of background materials prepared by ILGWU on
developments in the U.S. labor force, labor movement, and other
substantive issues
Zensen-5th Joint Conference-Zensen ReportReport by Zensen to conference
Zensen-5th Joint Conference-NotesHandwritten notes by Mazur
Zensen-5th Joint Conference-Travel ArrangementsRoutine documentation of travel arrangements, invoices
Zensen-4th Joint ConferenceJoint statement of conference, held in New York; agenda; list of
delegates; background materials; handwritten notes
Zensen-4th Joint Conference-ACTWU ReportBackground materials prepared by ACTWU on substantive issues
Zensen-4th Joint Conference-ILGWU ReportBackground materials prepared by ILGWU on substantive issues
Zensen-4th Joint Conference-Zensen ReportReport by Zensen to conference
Zensen-4th Joint Conference-TravelRoutine documentation of travel arrangements, invoices, courtesy
Zensen-Living Standards Comparison SurveyQuestionnaire on comparison of living standards between the U.S. and
Japan; correspondence re delegation to New York, January 1989
ZimbabweLetters to ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones from
the Zimbabwe Textile Workers Union re health and safety materials, April
22 and August 1, 1991
Zionist Organizations of AmericaLetter to Mazur from Milton S. Shapiro, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, urging him to join a National Committee of
Notables to Rescind the U.N. Resolution Against Zionism, characterized
by Shapiro as a lie, March 14, 1988; memo to Mazur from ILGWU asst pres.
Gus Tyler recommending against aligning with group, calling it
counterproductive and unnecessarily confrontational, March 17, 1988;
note by Tyler to Seymour Reich, to same effect, March 25, 1988; letter
to Shapiro from Otto von Habsburg concurring with ZOA position, December
3, 1987
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