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Legislative Action

 File — Box: 18, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

Includes: Local meeting, no date; signing of Declaration for Fair Minimum Wage with George Meany, 5/15/77; ILGWU General Counsel Max Zimny waits to testify before Senate Human Resources Committee's labor subcommittee, with ILGWU Legislative Director Evelyn Dubrow, and Associate General Counsel Ann F. Hoffman, 9/26/77 (2 copies of photo); Open heart operation in Denmark performed by a woman, Denmark, 1973; About 100 ILGers form New York City Locals were present when Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy conducted a field hearing of his Senate Health Subcommittee on national health insurance, Elmhurst, Queens, 12/14/77; Meeting with Manhattan Congressman William Green are VP Edward Schneider, General Manager of the Sportswear Joint Board, Local 105 Manager Henry Prastien, Local 155 Education Director Sylvia Grugett, Local 91 Education Director Rubye Jones, and Larry Rozenewaig.- Local 62 Chief Auditor, 4/15/78 (2 copies of photo); ILGWU Legislative Director Evelyn Dubrow led a delegation of ILGers to the Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Washington, DC, 10/15/77; ILGers joined other trade unionists at a recent OSHA lobbying conference sponsored by the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department, with members of New York Congressional delegation Jasper Peyton - ILGWU Assistant Education Director, Business Agent Hermine Hart, VP Evelyn Dubrow - Legislative Director, former ILGWU First VP E. Howard Molisani - now Secretary-Treasurer of New York State AFL-CIO, Rep. Joseph Adabbo (7th CD), Barry Gawan - Education Department Staffer, Reps. Geraldine Ferrara (9th CD) and Theodore Weiss (20th CD), Washington DC, May 1979; Vice Presidents Sol Hoffman and Evelyn Dubrow joined New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne at a White House meeting, Washington, DC 10/10/79; ILGers were prominent among the over 60,000 people who gathered in Chicago on May 10, 1980 for a rally n support of passage of the Equal Rights Amendment by the Illinois State Legislative; At voter registration table in New York's Chinatown are Ming Chen and Amy Tse, Local 23-25 summer interns, Local 23-25 Manager Edgar Romney, staff member Shiu Mak Ka, Chinese Retirees Club Chairman Kai-Pong Wong, Local 23-25 Assistant Education Director Sam Wong and staffer Betty Leung, Oct. 1983; VP Evelyn Dubrow, Legislative Director, addressing a rally to protest cuts in the federal jobs benefits program, Washing DC, April 1985; At first meeting of Apparel Caucus are VP Sol Hoffman, State Senator Frank J. O'Connell, VP Joseph Fisher, and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Julius Uehlein, May 1985; Jay Mazur at meeting, no date; Jay Mazur speaking with a petition to the President and Congress of the US to curb imports as his backdrop, Washington DC, 12/1/57

Dates

  • 1900-1991

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Yiddish

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

12 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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