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Scope and Contents See also Trade; see also Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985 Memos to ILGWU regional directors re lobbying and other strategy for campaign, 1984-85; memo from Sol Chaikin to President Stulberg proposing national campaign against imports, August 2, 1971; memo to Mazur re status of resolution in Congress, December 7, 1984; sample petitions in English, Spanish, and Chinese, with ad samples targeted to four ethnic groups; memos re petition campaign, including number of signatures...

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See also ILGWU Legislative Department; see also Textile & Apparel Trade; see also NAFTA Minutes of Import Task Force meeting of February 29, 1988, with cover note to Mazur by ILGWU vp Gus Tyler; note to Mazur from Tyler summarizing actions of Import Task Force meeting of April 5, 1988; letter from Tyler convening first meeting, with schedule of subsequent meetings, attached list of members, June 10, 1987

Scope and Contents Announcement by Jeff Faux and Roger Hickey of establishment of Project on Industrial Policy and Democracy; response by ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler, suggesting meeting, September 15, 1983, with attached article by Tyler, “The Threat of a U.S. Without Factories,” AFL-CIO American Federationist, April 1976; printed paper by AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department (IUD), “Rebuilding America: A National Industrial Policy,” c. 1984; memo to IUD Reindustrialization Committee, December 24, 1984,...

Scope and Contents See also Speeches – FITTVCC 1998 (Earlier name was translated from the Spanish – Federacion Interamericana de Trabajadores de la Industria Textil, Vestuario, Cuero y Calzado – as Interamerican Textile, Leather, Garment & Shoe Workers Federation) Memos from ILGWU International Relations director Michele Briones re conversations and meetings with FITITVC officials; report probably by Briones re trip to Venezuela, August 23-28, 1989; resolution by FITITVC, “The International Debt Problem,”...

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Agenda of Executive Committee meeting, Ponce de Leon, Puerto Rico; memos to Mazur from Michele Briones re meetings with executive committee members and relationship between the ILGWU, FITITVC, and ITGLWF; outline of welcoming address by Mazur, drafted by Briones; handwritten notes

Scope and Contents (Note later English name change to Interamerican Textile, Garment, Leather & Shoe Workers Federation) Memo from Michele Briones, director of ILGWU International Relations Department, re discussion with FITITVC re its affiliation with ITGLWF, nonpayment of dues, apparent disingenuousness, Dec. 15, 1987; text of speech by Mazur to the 20th anniversary conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, noting decline in U.S. living standards, opposition to imports, 1987; background information for...

Scope and Contents Report of trip to FITITVC conference in Mexico by Michele Briones, assistant director of ILGWU International Relations Department, Oct. 28, 1986, with newspaper clippings to Mazur’s attention; nomination of Clifford Depin to FITITVC Executive Committee, Feb 3, 1986, with constitution and statutes of FITITVC (1980); memo from Briones re agenda and preparations for FITITVC Executive Committee meeting in NY, with estimated budget, May 7-9, 1986; memo from Mazur to Herman Starobin re meeting;...

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Annual surveys of violations of trade union rights, 1989 and 1990; speech by ICFTU general secretary Enzo Friso, “Globalizing Economy and International Labour Standards,” presented to ICFTU economic conference in Thailand, June 27-18, 1993; invitations to meetings; confidential executive board agenda items/minutes discussing African and South American affairs, 1986

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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See also Labor Desk 1984 Speech delivered at Lisbon conference, “Democratic Challenge in Latin America,” by Max Kampelman, June 30, 1984, with cover letter to Mazur from Roy Godson, director, International Labor Program, Georgetown University; description of program activities and budget, noting request for contribution, September 1, 1983; printed booklet, “Serving American Workers: The International Labor Organization,” c. 1985; newspaper clipping