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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

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Correspondence and flyers related to boycott of toys made in China; sponsored by AFL-CIO and Frontlash, Youth and Labor Working Together

Scope and Contents Materials related to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing; report of official U.S Preparatory Meeting for the U.N. Fourth World Conference (convened by the U.S. Department of State and others), April 22, 1994; related materials: conference program; “A Working Women’s Guide to Her Job Rights,” U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, August 1992; Women’s Bureau fact sheets, Facts on Working Women, 1993; printed U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

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Agenda, minutes, and related materials for meeting of January 23, 1992, re forced labor; biographical description and statement of brothers Li Lin and Li Zhi; letter from President Carter welcoming the Li borthers to the U.S., January 8, 1992; AFL-CIO Committee on China “Report on China since Tiananmen Square,” delivered to the Executive Council on February 20, 1990; handwritten notes

Scope and Contents See also Committee on China – Report 1990 Urgent memo to Mazur and vp Susan Cowell from ILGWU International Relations Director Michele Briones re AFL-CIO Committee Report on China noting that she disagreed with draft, recommending inclusion of an alternative writeup of presentation by representative from Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation; first and second draft reports of October 18, 1990, meeting and report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council; final draft (?) of Subcommittee on China...

Scope and Contents Cover letter to Mazur from director of the Gulag Committee, welcoming him as a member, noting effectiveness of raising issue of prisoners when traveling to China, noting enclosed materials: report by the Gulag Committee, “Workers and Peasants Imprisoned by the Chinese Government,” profiling individual prisoners, July 8, 1991; report, “Rough Justice in Beijing: Punishing the ‘Black Hands’ of Tiananmen Square,” by Asia Watch, a committee of Human Rights Watch, January 27, 1991; New York Times...

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See also Chnia – Han Dongfang 1992 Resume of Joy Chen Yu Lewis of Asia Watch (Human Rights Watch); notes by Lewis from a meeting with AFFLI (AFL-CIO Asian-American Free Labor Institute?) representative Mark Hankin re projects documenting repression of Chinese workers, September 4, 1991; related correspondence

Scope and Contents Letter to N.Y. Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, from Rep. Gerald Solomon noting that House of Representatives approved his resolution denying Most Favored Nation status to China, with attached newspaper clipping, October 22, 1990; letter and materials from Hong Kong Trade Union Education Centre, July 21, 1990; letter from Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS), formed in reponse to the Tiananmen Square killings, July 18; draft of letter by AFL-CIO...