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Correspondence with Kirkland regarding upcoming arbitration hearing between ILGWU and Angelica Uniform Corp. (Missouri) re allegation that ILG involved in decertification movement; and related routine.

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Correspondence explaining labor movement's stand re workers of El Salvador and related routine.

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Letter to Australian Council of Trade Unions re an import licensing system for textiles and apparel; financial assistance for American Federation of Musicians striking hotels in Las Vegas; 7 p. draft statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on The Trade Deficit and related routine.

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Draft statements of AFL-CIO Executive Council on social security and Medicare, the budget deficit, and the job deficit; from Kirkland re efforts to establish a memorial museum to victims of the Holocaust in Europe; and related routine.

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Correspondence and official joint policy statement of Labor/Higher Education Council; re AFL-CIO policy concerning exchanges of trade union delegations with the Soviet Union; letter re merger of federation's maritime unions; Chaikin's retirement and resignation as Vice-President of the AFL-CIO; and related routine.

Scope and Contents Correspondence re Tailoring School in Nairobi; minutes and correspondence re the Center; Program of Action in Support of Black Trade Unions in South Africa; 3-week visit to 4 African countries by trade union women; minutes of Asian-American Free Labor Institute; correspondence regarding firms with subsidiaries doing business in South Africa; notes and comments by Sol and Rosalind Chaikin on AFL-CIO South African visit (6 p.); "A Discussion Concerning South African Unions" by S. Chaikin at...

Scope and Contents Correspondence re Tailoring School in Nairobi; minutes and correspondence re the Center; Program of Action in Support of Black Trade Unions in South Africa; 3-week visit to 4 African countries by trade union women; minutes of Asian-American Free Labor Institute; correspondence regarding firms with subsidiaries doing business in South Africa; notes and comments by Sol and Rosalind Chaikin on AFL-CIO South African visit (6 p.); "A Discussion Concerning South African Unions" by S. Chaikin at...

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Plans for labor's centennial; draft proposal submitted to Labor Centennial Committee re possible events, projects, etc.

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Chaikin, member of Archival Program Feasibility Study Committee. includes correspondence, surveys of union records; 10 p. draft, "An AFL-CIO Archives, An Urgent Need," a report to the Executive Council.

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Correspondence re violations of Article XX by various unions; documents regarding various cases.