Box 12

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Edited report, “Toward a National Health And Welfare Fund: A Policy Statement And Program Outline”; committee meeting agenda and minutes; minutes of first Sportswear Joint Board Delegates’ Meeting; handwritten notes; letter from attorney outlining merger steps for national health and welfare plan; resolutions

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Resolutions approving merger of New York City locals into the Sportswear and Allied Workers’ Joint Board. Mergers include New York Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear and Allied Workers’ Union, locals 10, 22, 23-25, 1- 35, 40, 66, 80-48, 91 (Children’s Dress – Infants Wear, Housedress and Bathrobe Makers Union), 105, 155 (Knitgood Workers)

Scope and Contents Petition signed by members of Local 225, Hazelton, opposing closing and merger with office in Pittston; letters opposing closing: from Greater Wilkes-Barre Labor Council district manager to Pres. Mazur, opposing mergers as politically harmful to the labor movement, July 24, 1987; from member of Local 225 to Pres. Mazur, April 29, 1987; from president of Alliance to Revitalize Center-City Hazelton, Inc., to vice president Sol Hoffman, April 29, 1989; from president of United Labor Council of...

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Resolutions approving merger: Central and Western Penna. and Reading District Council (Reading-Pottstown Local 93 and Trenton-Wilmington District Local 217-228); memo re wildcat strike at Aster Knitting Mills, local 93, Reading, June 10, 1987

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Resolutions approving mergers: original signed for the Scranton District Council, locals 109, 131, and 365, 8/23/89; for the Scranton-Shamokin-Sunbury-Pottsville District Council; financial statement for Shamokin-Sunbury-Pottsville District Council, locals 185-306-351, with hand notation “Resolution for merger passed Aug. 9, 1989”; meeting minutes

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the files of Executive Assistant to the President David Melman from 1974 to 1992. Included are extensive company files which include correspondence and other materials relating to contract negotiations. Also included are records on General Executive Board meetings and ILGWU conventions, as well as general subject files.

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Media training kit by Michael Sheehan Associates, affiliated with Ogilvy Mather Public Affairs; script re evils of homework; handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, late 1980s?

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Correspondence with FDNY and Fire Museum re Triangle Shirtwaist Fire video; publicity material re Fire Museum, May-June 1987

Scope and Contents Transcript of testimony before the Trade Policy Staff Committee: “The Economic Effects of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the U.S. Apparel Industry,” Aug. 29, 1991; congressional roll call voting record on Textile and Apparel Act of 1987, with cover memo to ILG regional directors; copy of new version of bill, memo analyzing different versions; lobbying/public relations strategy handbook, “FFACT Battle Plan, 1998 Confidential”; call to action to retirees; memo re lobbying...

Scope and Contents “Statement of Jay Mazur, President, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Before the Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representative, May 18, 1987,” and before the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, July 30, 1987, in support of the Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; Minutes of the Task Force on Imports, 6/16, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21/, 7/24/87; list of ILG locals by state and congressional district, identifying congressional representatives; list of Senate...