Council for American Fashion: First & Second Quarters (Jan.-June) (2 Folders), 1991

Annual Report; personal note from ILGWU president Mazur to Marvin [Feldman, president of FIT], urging that Prof. Irwin Kahn be allowed the time to continue contributing to CAF and GIDC rather than being forced back to the classroom, February 27, 1991; nomination by ILGWU president Mazur of Eli Elias, exec. dir. of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association and co-chair with Mazur of CAF, to Crain's New York Business as Crain's All-Star for 1990, related material; memo to ILGWU exec. asst. James Parrott from CAF dir. Carl Proper re finding funds in current budget for export expert, February 13, 1991; ten-page notes for continuation budget, CAF goals, for submission to Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), with note from Proper to Parrott, related memos; memo from Proper to Parrot re work situation on Long Island: homework, Chinese and Hispanic workforce, practice of Chinese-owned manufacturers moving from Chinatown to Long Island to avoid unionization, discusses specific shops, strategy, May 23, 1991; memos re export program, Hong Kong trade show; profile of Atlantic Apparel Contractors Association in Lehigh Valley Business Digest, February 1991; draft of minutes of New Jersey Apparel Labor-Management Committee, January 31, 1991, with cover note from Carl Proper to James Parrott; report of survey of Long Island, April May 1991, by Prof. Phil Kelman, Manufacturing Management Department, Fashion Institute of Technology; "A Preliminary Assessment of the Council for American Fashion: A Labor-Management Partnership for the Apparel Industry," by Norman Eiger, professor of labor studies, Rutgers University, March 1, 1991; summary of apparel industry labor-management activities, April 25, 1991; list of CAF/GIDC exporters and potential exporters, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes