South Africa, 1986-1987

Letter 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