Mazur Correspondence, received November 17-November 20, 1986

File — Box: 25, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

Complaints from members re nonpayment of holiday vacation pay (Somerset Manufacturing, Somerset, PA; Faymore Manufacturing, Confluence, PA); schedule of contributions from affiliates and retired members to political Campaign Committee; invitations to other events; requests for contributions; letter re AFL-CIO Union Privilege Legal Services Program, November 13; agenda for International Labor Solidarity conference, with cover letter to ILGWU research director Herman Starobin, November 12; background from Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City re pension campaign history, November 5; memo to Mazur re logistics of holding a reception for legislators in Albany, November 17; letter to Irwin Solomon, copied to Mazur by Solomon, from the officers of Local 111, Allentown, PA, urging that assistant manager Cavalieri be made manager, November 6; draft letter from Mazur supporting Salvatore Giardina for vice president of New Jersey AFL-CIO; John Herling’s Labor Letter for week of November 8; copy of signatures of employees of Brockton Coat, Inc. (MA) re tentative agreement between New England Macintosh and Local 242 ILGWU, November 17; letter from member whose employment at ILGWU office in Easton, PA, and health insurance was set to expire one week before due date of baby, November 14; letter to Mazur from National Association of Blouse Manufacturers, with attached list of non-union firms copying designs, selling at lower prices to customers, November 11; reply from vp Edgar Romney, manager-secretary of Local 23-25, November 21; letter to ILGWU vice presidents re establishing affiliated working centers in communities with large immigrant and other target populations for organizing drives, November 17; Department of Justice press releases re civil suits against NYC Board of Elections to extend time for receipt of absentee ballots, against Texas district judge for sexual harassment, installation of federal polling monitors in Yazoo County, Mississippi, other issues, November 7-17; summary of meeting of Labor Committee of the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission, November 17; letters from New York Statue of Liberty Centennial Commission; memo to governing members (including Chaikin) of Committee on Developing American Capitalism from interim chairman asking to identify top three policy issues, November 17; letter from the Kamber Group offering to do public relations for the union, November 20; critique by Michael Sheehan Associates of Mazur’s CNN interview, with transcript

Dates

1986

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

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